Alix Renaudin
@alixrnd.bsky.social
⚖️ Associate Legal Officer @vertic.bsky.social
🗣️ IHL, WMD Disarmament & Arms control ☢️ ☣️, Use of force, Polar & Western Balkans issues
🇺🇳 Former UN Legal Affairs, UN Disarmament Affairs, CTBTO
Views=my own/RT≠endorsement | Posts in 🇬🇧,🇫🇷,🇳🇴 | he/him
🗣️ IHL, WMD Disarmament & Arms control ☢️ ☣️, Use of force, Polar & Western Balkans issues
🇺🇳 Former UN Legal Affairs, UN Disarmament Affairs, CTBTO
Views=my own/RT≠endorsement | Posts in 🇬🇧,🇫🇷,🇳🇴 | he/him
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· Jul 23
📢 T&V No. 176 is out! Marking 50 yrs of the BTWC 🧬 & 100 yrs of the Geneva Protocol 📜, with a lead article by Jean Pascal Zanders (@ban-cbw.bsky.social), plus insights on nuclear irreversibility, institutionalisation of the BTWC & maritime sanctions evasion. Read: www.vertic.org/2025/07/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 176, Summer 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
www.vertic.org
🗞️ The latest edition of Trust&Verify is out!
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
"C'était donc cela, la peine de mort : ce sacrifice judiciaire dans les ténèbres de l'ignorance"
R. Badinter, L'abolition.
R. Badinter, L'abolition.
🇫🇷 "Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les lumières et l'esprit de 1789, la promesse accomplie de la révolution. Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon avec les principes de l'état de droit", a déclaré Emmanuel Macron lors de la cérémonie en hommage à l'artisan de l'abolition de la peine de mort ⤵️
October 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"C'était donc cela, la peine de mort : ce sacrifice judiciaire dans les ténèbres de l'ignorance"
R. Badinter, L'abolition.
R. Badinter, L'abolition.
Insightful days at @ungeneva.bsky.social 🇺🇳 with the
@vertic.bsky.social delegation for the 6th session of the #1972BWC Working Group with two successful side events!
Many thanks to all speakers and attendees!
@vertic.bsky.social delegation for the 6th session of the #1972BWC Working Group with two successful side events!
Many thanks to all speakers and attendees!
August 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Insightful days at @ungeneva.bsky.social 🇺🇳 with the
@vertic.bsky.social delegation for the 6th session of the #1972BWC Working Group with two successful side events!
Many thanks to all speakers and attendees!
@vertic.bsky.social delegation for the 6th session of the #1972BWC Working Group with two successful side events!
Many thanks to all speakers and attendees!
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) mtg this week:
🔸Norms against biological weapons must be upheld
🔸Strong & effective national implementation of BWC is vital in light of today’s rapid development in Life Sciences and Biotech.
Norway proud supporter of @vertic_org #1972BWC
🔸Norms against biological weapons must be upheld
🔸Strong & effective national implementation of BWC is vital in light of today’s rapid development in Life Sciences and Biotech.
Norway proud supporter of @vertic_org #1972BWC
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) mtg this week:
🔸Norms against biological weapons must be upheld
🔸Strong & effective national implementation of BWC is vital in light of today’s rapid development in Life Sciences and Biotech.
Norway proud supporter of @vertic_org #1972BWC
🔸Norms against biological weapons must be upheld
🔸Strong & effective national implementation of BWC is vital in light of today’s rapid development in Life Sciences and Biotech.
Norway proud supporter of @vertic_org #1972BWC
📣 Join us Today in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC WG on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC
Explore @vertic.bsky.social projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII
Explore @vertic.bsky.social projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII
August 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
📣 Join us Today in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC WG on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC
Explore @vertic.bsky.social projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII
Explore @vertic.bsky.social projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII
📣 Join us this Wednesday in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC Working Group on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC
Explore VERTIC projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII 🇺🇳
Explore VERTIC projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII 🇺🇳
August 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
📣 Join us this Wednesday in Geneva for a side event on the margins of the #1972BWC Working Group on Enhancing National Implementation of the BWC
Explore VERTIC projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII 🇺🇳
Explore VERTIC projects, assistance activities and featuring the launch of the CBRN Cases Tracker database
📆 20 August 2025 - 13:15 CET - Room XXII 🇺🇳
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
🔔 Upcoming Events!
Join us next week at VERTIC's two side events on the margins of the 6th meeting of the BWC WG.
The events will focus on enhancing national implementation of the BWC and assessing BWC compliance and monitoring, respectively.
The side-events will take place on 20 August at 13:15.
Join us next week at VERTIC's two side events on the margins of the 6th meeting of the BWC WG.
The events will focus on enhancing national implementation of the BWC and assessing BWC compliance and monitoring, respectively.
The side-events will take place on 20 August at 13:15.
August 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🔔 Upcoming Events!
Join us next week at VERTIC's two side events on the margins of the 6th meeting of the BWC WG.
The events will focus on enhancing national implementation of the BWC and assessing BWC compliance and monitoring, respectively.
The side-events will take place on 20 August at 13:15.
Join us next week at VERTIC's two side events on the margins of the 6th meeting of the BWC WG.
The events will focus on enhancing national implementation of the BWC and assessing BWC compliance and monitoring, respectively.
The side-events will take place on 20 August at 13:15.
⚖️ Important recent decisions from the 🇫🇷 @courdecassation.fr
on functional immunities of State officials. The Court ruled that it exists exceptions to functional immunities for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in cases against former Syrian officials.
on functional immunities of State officials. The Court ruled that it exists exceptions to functional immunities for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in cases against former Syrian officials.
August 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
⚖️ Important recent decisions from the 🇫🇷 @courdecassation.fr
on functional immunities of State officials. The Court ruled that it exists exceptions to functional immunities for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in cases against former Syrian officials.
on functional immunities of State officials. The Court ruled that it exists exceptions to functional immunities for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in cases against former Syrian officials.
The French 🇫🇷 National Strategic Review 2025 was published a few days ago and includes some references to WMD proliferation (Chemical, Biological, Nuclear).
Short thread 🧶
Short thread 🧶
July 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The French 🇫🇷 National Strategic Review 2025 was published a few days ago and includes some references to WMD proliferation (Chemical, Biological, Nuclear).
Short thread 🧶
Short thread 🧶
La Revue Nationale Stratégique 2025 est sortie il y a quelques jours.
Quelques références à la prolifération d'armes de destruction massive (Chimique, Biologique & Nucléaire).
Petit thread 🧶
Quelques références à la prolifération d'armes de destruction massive (Chimique, Biologique & Nucléaire).
Petit thread 🧶
July 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
La Revue Nationale Stratégique 2025 est sortie il y a quelques jours.
Quelques références à la prolifération d'armes de destruction massive (Chimique, Biologique & Nucléaire).
Petit thread 🧶
Quelques références à la prolifération d'armes de destruction massive (Chimique, Biologique & Nucléaire).
Petit thread 🧶
🗞️ The latest edition of Trust&Verify is out!
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
📢 T&V No. 176 is out! Marking 50 yrs of the BTWC 🧬 & 100 yrs of the Geneva Protocol 📜, with a lead article by Jean Pascal Zanders (@ban-cbw.bsky.social), plus insights on nuclear irreversibility, institutionalisation of the BTWC & maritime sanctions evasion. Read: www.vertic.org/2025/07/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 176, Summer 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
www.vertic.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🗞️ The latest edition of Trust&Verify is out!
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
🩺 It features my article on synergies of the recently adopted WHO #PandemicAgreement, the #1972BWC and the #InternationalHealthRegulations
Check it out along other pieces on BW control milestones, institutionalisation, nuclear irreversibility, etc.
⤵️
🎂 Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #1925GenevaProtocol, one of the earliest global norm to ban the use of asphyxiating gases and biological weapons in war.
100 years later, it is still a critical instrument to address the proliferation and use of Biological and Chemical weapons ⤵️
100 years later, it is still a critical instrument to address the proliferation and use of Biological and Chemical weapons ⤵️
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🎂 Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #1925GenevaProtocol, one of the earliest global norm to ban the use of asphyxiating gases and biological weapons in war.
100 years later, it is still a critical instrument to address the proliferation and use of Biological and Chemical weapons ⤵️
100 years later, it is still a critical instrument to address the proliferation and use of Biological and Chemical weapons ⤵️
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
🔴 Days before a parliamentary inquiry presents its report on the nuclear tests in French Polynesia, documents obtained by @disclosengo.bsky.social and seen by @lemonde.fr and @theguardian.com suggest the CEA ran a concerted campaign to discredit the revelations👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🔴 Days before a parliamentary inquiry presents its report on the nuclear tests in French Polynesia, documents obtained by @disclosengo.bsky.social and seen by @lemonde.fr and @theguardian.com suggest the CEA ran a concerted campaign to discredit the revelations👇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Fate Unknown: The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing | Think Global Health www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fate...
Fate Unknown: The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing | Think Global Health
Seven issues exemplify the complex choices that member state negotiators still face
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
May 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fate Unknown: The Pandemic Agreement's Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing | Think Global Health www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fate...
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
May 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.
What a moment in global health history. Together!
🗞️ Discover our paper: “N5: Possible Steps to Consolidate the Non-Testing Norm & Facilitate CTBT Entry Into Force”
Proposing actions for the N5 to build trust, strengthen monitoring, and support CTBT entry into force.
#CTBT #NuclearDisarmament #NonProliferation
youthgroup.ctbto.org/system/files...
Proposing actions for the N5 to build trust, strengthen monitoring, and support CTBT entry into force.
#CTBT #NuclearDisarmament #NonProliferation
youthgroup.ctbto.org/system/files...
youthgroup.ctbto.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🗞️ Discover our paper: “N5: Possible Steps to Consolidate the Non-Testing Norm & Facilitate CTBT Entry Into Force”
Proposing actions for the N5 to build trust, strengthen monitoring, and support CTBT entry into force.
#CTBT #NuclearDisarmament #NonProliferation
youthgroup.ctbto.org/system/files...
Proposing actions for the N5 to build trust, strengthen monitoring, and support CTBT entry into force.
#CTBT #NuclearDisarmament #NonProliferation
youthgroup.ctbto.org/system/files...
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
📢 Join next week’s event on #France's 🇫🇷 Strategic Role in #NATO's #Arctic Ambitions ❄️
🗓️ Thursday March 27th, 2025
⏱️ 6:00 AM AK | 10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET
🎙️ Speaker Alix Renaudin will join moderator & TAI’s Victoria Herrmann
🔗 More info: www.thearcticinstitute.org/event/france...
🗓️ Thursday March 27th, 2025
⏱️ 6:00 AM AK | 10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET
🎙️ Speaker Alix Renaudin will join moderator & TAI’s Victoria Herrmann
🔗 More info: www.thearcticinstitute.org/event/france...
France's Strategic Role in NATO's Arctic Ambitions
This event by The Arctic Institute on 27 March 2025 will explore the evolution of France’s interests in the Arctic, including NATO's role.
www.thearcticinstitute.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📢 Join next week’s event on #France's 🇫🇷 Strategic Role in #NATO's #Arctic Ambitions ❄️
🗓️ Thursday March 27th, 2025
⏱️ 6:00 AM AK | 10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET
🎙️ Speaker Alix Renaudin will join moderator & TAI’s Victoria Herrmann
🔗 More info: www.thearcticinstitute.org/event/france...
🗓️ Thursday March 27th, 2025
⏱️ 6:00 AM AK | 10:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM CET
🎙️ Speaker Alix Renaudin will join moderator & TAI’s Victoria Herrmann
🔗 More info: www.thearcticinstitute.org/event/france...
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbor Russia, the four countries said reut.rs/41yCxL9
Poland and Baltic nations plan to pull out from landmines convention
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbour Russia, the four countries said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
March 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines due to the military threat from their neighbor Russia, the four countries said reut.rs/41yCxL9
"De 1954 à 1959, la France coloniale n’a pas hésité à gazer, notamment dans les zones montagneuses difficiles d’accès, des populations sans défense"
www.liberation.fr/internationa...
www.liberation.fr/internationa...
Guerre d’Algérie : France Télévisions déprogramme un documentaire sur l’usage des armes chimiques par l’armée française
Dans un contexte diplomatique tendu et alors que les débats sur les crimes coloniaux font rage, un documentaire inédit révélant l’utilisation d’armes chimiques par la France en Algérie a été retiré de...
www.liberation.fr
March 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
"De 1954 à 1959, la France coloniale n’a pas hésité à gazer, notamment dans les zones montagneuses difficiles d’accès, des populations sans défense"
www.liberation.fr/internationa...
www.liberation.fr/internationa...
Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war
Efforts to abandon the APMBC challenge fundamental precepts of IHL and undermine essential safeguards for upholding humanity in war.
blogs.icrc.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Anti-personnel mines: the false promise of security through exceptionalism in war
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
blogs.icrc.org/law-and-poli...
Denmark to spend DKK 14.6 billions more on Arctic military security in partnership with its autonomous territories Greenland 🇬🇱 and the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴, adding to the DKK 10-15 billions for Greenland's defence announced last December.
#Arctic #ArcticSecurity
bbc.com/news/article...
#Arctic #ArcticSecurity
bbc.com/news/article...
Denmark to spend billions more on Arctic military security
The move comes after President Donald Trump said he wants to acquire Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.
bbc.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Denmark to spend DKK 14.6 billions more on Arctic military security in partnership with its autonomous territories Greenland 🇬🇱 and the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴, adding to the DKK 10-15 billions for Greenland's defence announced last December.
#Arctic #ArcticSecurity
bbc.com/news/article...
#Arctic #ArcticSecurity
bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
Trust & Verify No.175 is out! Featuring a lead article on the establishment of the new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team for implementation of UNSCRs relating to North Korea, plus pieces on North Korea’s enrichment programme & the use of AI for tracking dark ships
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 175, Winter 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
www.vertic.org
January 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Trust & Verify No.175 is out! Featuring a lead article on the establishment of the new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team for implementation of UNSCRs relating to North Korea, plus pieces on North Korea’s enrichment programme & the use of AI for tracking dark ships
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
📰 The latest edition of Trust & Verify is out!
☣️ It features my article on export and dual-use research 🧪controls, discussing a case in the US 🇺🇸.
Check it out, along with updates on North Korea’s enrichment programme 🇰🇵 and the use of AI to track dark ships, here ⤵️
☣️ It features my article on export and dual-use research 🧪controls, discussing a case in the US 🇺🇸.
Check it out, along with updates on North Korea’s enrichment programme 🇰🇵 and the use of AI to track dark ships, here ⤵️
Trust & Verify No.175 is out! Featuring a lead article on the establishment of the new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team for implementation of UNSCRs relating to North Korea, plus pieces on North Korea’s enrichment programme & the use of AI for tracking dark ships
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
www.vertic.org/2025/01/trus...
Trust & Verify no. 175, Winter 2025 - VERTIC
The Winter 2023 edition of T&V opens with a lead article on diplomatic momentum and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty. The rest of the edition covers issues ranging from the conviction of a ma...
www.vertic.org
January 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
📰 The latest edition of Trust & Verify is out!
☣️ It features my article on export and dual-use research 🧪controls, discussing a case in the US 🇺🇸.
Check it out, along with updates on North Korea’s enrichment programme 🇰🇵 and the use of AI to track dark ships, here ⤵️
☣️ It features my article on export and dual-use research 🧪controls, discussing a case in the US 🇺🇸.
Check it out, along with updates on North Korea’s enrichment programme 🇰🇵 and the use of AI to track dark ships, here ⤵️
Reposted by Alix Renaudin
🚨New VERTIC commentary
Recent events in Syria present potential opportunities and challenges for verifiably eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. Our latest piece explores the future implications for #CWC national implementation.
Read our commentary here: t.co/v075n5NwXz
Recent events in Syria present potential opportunities and challenges for verifiably eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. Our latest piece explores the future implications for #CWC national implementation.
Read our commentary here: t.co/v075n5NwXz
https://www.vertic.org/2024/12/future-for-syria-and-the-chemical-weapons-convention-the-legislative-implications/
t.co
January 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🚨New VERTIC commentary
Recent events in Syria present potential opportunities and challenges for verifiably eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. Our latest piece explores the future implications for #CWC national implementation.
Read our commentary here: t.co/v075n5NwXz
Recent events in Syria present potential opportunities and challenges for verifiably eliminating chemical weapons stockpiles. Our latest piece explores the future implications for #CWC national implementation.
Read our commentary here: t.co/v075n5NwXz