Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026To capture rights, China and Russia are hollowing the UN's human rights system ⬛️ Countries with experience in silencing independent institutions at home are now following the same playbook at the United Nations, targeting the UN's human rights office. 102
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We’re facing the capture by malign actors of the human rights language and system ⬛️ Trump’s capture of the Kennedy Center is part of it: a will to capture liberal arts and the public’s appreciation for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...nytimes.comHow President Trump Broke the Kennedy CenterInternal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. 000
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Saxony-Anhalt, 6 September: AfD 43.8%, just short of a majority. BSW 5.3%, now in talks with the AfD. A route to the first post-war far-right government in Germany runs through the BSW. BSW, party of reason and justice? Reality is different ⬛️⤵️ 110
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes. He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️ Worth a thread 🧵⤵️ @operativmedia.bsky.socialx.comİlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on XAvropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır. 113
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026JD Vance closed the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September ⬛️ He did not say the words human rights once. He still built a rights claim, from first line to last. That is what capture looks like now ⤵️ 100
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026JD Vance keynotes the Republican midterm convention in Dallas tonight, and we will be reading the speech for the mechanics: which right is invoked, who it protects, and who disappears from the account. Stay tuned for more analysis on JD Vance's capture of human rights language. 000
Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The AfD took 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, double its 2021 result ⬛️ Watch how the party claimed human rights language in the weeks ahead, to capture it ⤵️ 111