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Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights. Powered by Progress & Change Partnerships. rightscapture.org

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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
Because human rights belong to everyone, we monitor the attempts to capture rights. The way some on the left capture anti-racism and anti-colonialism to advance antisemitism will not go unoticed here. Register to stay updated: rightscapture.org#register
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Rights Capture Monitor: Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights
Rights Capture Monitor documents, verifies and publishes evidence on how the language, mechanisms and funding of human rights are used by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
🟥 Klaus Lederer, who left Die Linke in 2024, describes anti-Zionism as an ‘identity marker’ belonging on a growing part of the left: a sign of belonging that nobody questions. 🔗 www.juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/fata...
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Fatale Geschichtsvergessenheit – Die Linke und der Antisemitismus
Klaus Lederer, ehemaliger Politiker der Partei »Die Linke« und aktuell Co-Sprecher der »Progressiven Linken e.V.«, zum dritten Jahrestag des Hamas-Massakers vom 7. Oktober 2023
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
➡️ Four of the five Green MPs opposed the motion. The German and European Green Parties distanced themselves from the Green Party of England and Wales. The Movement for Progressive Judaism calls it ‘antisemitic in its formulation and intention’.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
7️⃣ The motion supports ‘a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine…with equal rights for all’. This isn't the two state solution; it'is replacing Israel 🇮🇱🇵🇸 The same text rules Jewish national self-determination racist. The promise of equality rests on that ruling ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
6️⃣ The authors of the motion in their briefing paper argue for dropping the word antisemitism. The paper offers ‘anti-Jewish discrimination’ instead, a narrower term. Reality check: the word was coined in the late 19th century for hatred of Jews and has meant only that.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
5️⃣ The motion describes Zionism as ‘designed to cement the supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians’. What could have been legitimate criticism towards Israël's policies becomes a statement about what Jews as a group intend. More antisemitism, disguised in anti-supremacy language ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
4️⃣ The text calls Zionism ‘based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and oppression’. Decolonial vocabulary casts the Jewish presence in the region as foreign and illegitimate. It further neglects the mutiplicity of Jewish identity. Typical of antisemitism, not anticolonialism ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
3️⃣ At the same time, the motion states ‘not all Jews are Zionists’. The Green Party knows better than the Jews themselves: the party indeed voted down an amendment that barred discipline of members over ‘affiliation with Jewish community institutions’ which would include a synagogue membership.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
2️⃣ Jews hold zionism as a claim to Jewish self-determination at least since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The motion replaces that meaning with its own. The Movement for Progressive Judaism rejects the @greenparty.org.uk imposing its meaning on a central part of Jewish identity.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
1️⃣ The motion writes its own definition of Zionism: the pursuit of ‘an ethnonationalist Jewish State…to the exclusion and/or domination of the non-Jewish population’. It then rules that Zionism is racism. About 2/3 of Jews consider themselves zionists; the Green Party just made them all racists.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 23h
The Green Party of England and Wales adopted a motion that declares Zionism a form of racism. The text draws on the vocabulary of anti-racism, decolonisation, equality and self-determination ⬛️ We analysed that vocabulary against the intention: the motion abuses rights to legitimise antisemitism ⤵️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And we’ve seen this in the past ⬛️ Former senior counselor at Palantir Technologies, Jamie Fly, now leads Freedom House. Just an example. And we’re keeping a close eye on the way Palantir is extending its web to capture human rights.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We documented 21 cases throughout the presidential campaign in Brazil: original source and what the instrument actually requires 🇧🇷 Register to stay updated: rightscapture.org#register
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Rights Capture Monitor — Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights
Rights Capture Monitor documents, verifies and publishes evidence on how the language, mechanisms and funding of human rights are used by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
➡️ Bolsonaro's campaign abuses the words of human rights and empties them of meaning: rights for allies, abuse for critics 🇧🇷 Because human rights belong to everyone, we monitor the attempts to capture rights ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
4️⃣ ‘Freedom from fear’ comes from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It protects people from abuse by the state. Bolsonaro's plan uses it to announce police shooting anyone carrying a rifle, a prison complex on El Salvador's model named ‘TREVA’, darkness.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3️⃣ The UN, misused: Bolsonaro's plan cuts the benefit paid to prisoners' families, most of them children, claims the UN recommends this — it doesn't. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child forbids punishing children for what their parents did.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
2️⃣ Free speech, for one side only: Flávio Bolsonaro's plan promises that no government will punish people for criticism. Meanwhile, his campaign won at least 24 Electoral Court decisions removing opponents' posts. It also asked for a government employee to be arrested over a repost.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does ‘rescue democracy’ mean to the Bolsonaros? 1️⃣ Appointing at least four Supreme Court justices who, in Flávio's words, will not interfere in elections: This is the court that convicted his father of a coup attempt. Holding power to account gets renamed interference ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last night Flávio Bolsonaro won Brazil's first round, promising to ‘resgatar a democracia’, rescue democracy 🇧🇷 His campaign uses the word democracy to defend his father, jailed for plotting to overturn the 2022 election ⬛️ Here is how the campaign takes over the language of rights ⤵️
Photo taken from above of a large crowd packed into an arcaded stone courtyard in São Paulo, Brazil, at a pro-democracy gathering on 11 August 2022. Hundreds of people stand shoulder to shoulder, filling the courtyard up to the arches. Many hold up phones, and photographers crowd near the front. A white banner across the upper storey reads 'DITADURA NUNCA MAIS', meaning 'Dictatorship never again'. Two more banners hang on the side walls, partly out of frame: one ends with 'JAMAIS ACONTEÇA' ('never happen') and the other begins 'PARA QUE NÃO' ('so that it does not'). In the foreground, on a dark stage, a man in a dark suit reads from a lectern with glass panels. Beside him are a person in a bright yellow jacket and a woman in white. At the time, President Jair Bolsonaro had hinted that he might not respect the result of the October 2022 election.

Credit line for the post: Andre Penner/AP Photo
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
➡️ Read ‘The UN's human rights system is being hollowed out so it can be captured’ in @genevasolutions.bsky.social: genevasolutions.news/opinions/the...
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❝The UN's human rights system is being hollowed out so it can be captured - Geneva Solutions
The UN human rights architecture is being hollowed out from within and carefully prepared for capture. Nobody should be watching from the sidelines, warns Victor Madrigal-Borloz, trustee at the UN’s f...
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To 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.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’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...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have documented 19 cases across the 2025 election programme, state programmes, party releases and leaders' statements: original German, source, and what the instrument actually requires. Register to stay updated: rightscapture.org/#register
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Rights Capture Monitor — Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights
Rights Capture Monitor documents, verifies and publishes evidence on how the language, mechanisms and funding of human rights are used by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The BSW presented itself as an answer to the AfD. It now offers it parliamentary cooperation, calls the ban procedure a road to dictatorship and the firewall a failure. It has not rejected human rights. It has kept the words and cut them loose from dignity.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
3️⃣ Extremism: Sarah Wagenknecht defined right-wing extremism as authoritarianism and curbs on free speech. She finds extremists in the federal government, not in the AfD. In constitutional law, extremism means denying equal dignity. She left that out ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
2️⃣ Women's rights: BSW’s programme invokes them to repeal the Self-Determination Act and presents trans women as a threat to women's spaces. Equality under human rights law is indivisible. It does not protect one group by withdrawing recognition from another 🏳️‍🌈⚖️⚧️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1️⃣ Asylum: BSW’s programme keeps the right on paper, then denies a procedure to anyone arriving via a safe third country. Days before the federal election, Sahra Wagenknecht said only a vanishing minority would still get a procedure.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We went through its 2025 election programme, its state programmes, its press releases and its leaders' statements since the federal election. BSW uses a rights language but human dignity goes in analysing its policies ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saxony-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 ⬛️⤵️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Azerbaijan is worth watching for what it makes explicit: what Aliyev says on camera, other regimes do out of sight. ➡️ We will be monitoring precisely how these regimes capture rights to advance their control domestically and delegitimise international accountability.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anti-corruption and anti-discrimination belong to the human rights vocabulary. Aliyev keeps them and redirects them, aiming at the institution that documents the violations instead of at the violations themselves ⬛️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Islamophobia line is also old ☪️ In 2015 a presidential aide dismissed a European Parliament resolution as the work of Islamophobic circles. A decade on, the same reframing: institutional criticism recast as bias against Islam.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
2️⃣ In 2021 the #PandoraPapers traced close to $700 million in London property to Aliyev's relatives. @anticorruption.bsky.social ranks Azerbaijan 131st of 180 countries. The body he accuses of corruption is the one that documented his 🧐
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The corruption charge is not new to Aliyev 🇦🇿 1️⃣ In 2018 an independent inquiry set up by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe sanctioned Azerbaijan's own delegation head, Samad Seyidov, and colleagues, for buying influence among members. #CaviarDiplomacy
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
President 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.social
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İlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on X
Avropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
➡️ We logged eighteen of examples of the way Vice President JD Vance uses human rights language to abuse human rights since January 2025. Register to stay updated: rightscapture.org
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The closing lines capture best how JD Vances abuses human rights language ⬛️ Every American deserves the sacred inheritance 🇺🇸 Then, at once: America belongs to those who love it, not those who hate it. Dissidence isn't allowed anymore, obedience is expected.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On girls 👧 ➡️ No politician should tell a little girl to surrender her trophy, her scholarship or her locker room to a man. Equality for women and girls, invoked once, aimed at one group. Only to better exclude another: transgender people ⚧️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
JD Vance's view of inheritance has to be defended against rival claimants. All the job growth now goes to American citizens, he says. A fall of three million in the foreign-born population is counted as an achievement 📉
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The first half of that sentence is the Universal Declaration: born with rights, whatever your origin. The last three words cancel it: a right you hold not because you are human but an inheritance you hold because of who you belong to.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Then JD Vance names it, his battlefield: birthright 👶 Every American child is born with it, he tells the hall. Not because of what they look like or where they come from, but because they are Americans.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Start with what he says he wants for his newborn son: clean water and real food, a real education, a safe home, a fair shot at a good job. That is most of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, read out as a father's wish list.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
JD 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 ⤵️
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JD 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.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
➡️ We have documented 33 cases across the 2016 basic programme, the 2025 election programme and seven Bundestag motions: original German, source, page, and what the instrument actually requires. Register to stay updated: rightscapture.org#register
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
3️⃣ June 2026: a motion for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the state of free expression. It cites Article 10 of the European Convention, the EU Charter, Council of Europe guidance. Its central evidence is the party's own classification by the intelligence service.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
2️⃣ December 2025: a motion asking Germany to press the UN Human Rights Office and the Universal Periodic Review to work only from customary law and the two covenants. The covenants are expressly accepted. What is refused is how they have been read.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1️⃣ March 2026: a motion to revise the 1951 Refugee Convention. The motion cites deaths on Mediterranean and desert routes. It promises that Articles 31 and 33 stay intact. It then proposes amending Article 1A(2), which is the article that defines who counts as a refugee at all.
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Rights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since entering the Bundestag in February 2025 the group has been tabling it as parliamentary business.
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