Luc Dockendorf
@lucdockendorf.bsky.social
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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🧵 As #EU governments prepare to meet amid a fragile #Gaza ceasefire, pressure is mounting for them to "drop the stick" they never used on #Israel
Caving to that pressure would be yet another blow to their credibility, and to hopes for rights and justice: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #EUCO #FAC ⤵️ 1/7
Caving to that pressure would be yet another blow to their credibility, and to hopes for rights and justice: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #EUCO #FAC ⤵️ 1/7
Ceasefire or Not, EU Should Keep Pressure on Israel to End Abuses
As European Union leaders and foreign ministers prepare for meetings to discuss the situation in Israel and Palestine, some of their representatives in Brussels, and Israel’s new ambassador to the EU,...
hrw.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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@who.int is appalled by the latest evacuation order, demanding 1 million people to move from Gaza City to a “humanitarian zone” in the south.
To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.
To the intl. community: Act.
This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.
To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.
To the intl. community: Act.
This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.
September 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@who.int is appalled by the latest evacuation order, demanding 1 million people to move from Gaza City to a “humanitarian zone” in the south.
To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.
To the intl. community: Act.
This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.
To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.
To the intl. community: Act.
This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.
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"Death, destruction, starvation and displacement of Palestinian civilians are the result of choices that defy international law and ignore the international community."
"We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."
"We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."
Again – we need much more access to Gaza to save lives at scale. Release of hostages and arbitrarily detained. A ceasefire. This horror can be stopped.
September 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Death, destruction, starvation and displacement of Palestinian civilians are the result of choices that defy international law and ignore the international community."
"We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."
"We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."
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New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution, strangulation and gang rape. The Generals responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable under international law.🇲🇲
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a pattern...
news.un.org
August 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution, strangulation and gang rape. The Generals responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable under international law.🇲🇲
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
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The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.
Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...
Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...
Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and international law. In clear legal terms, the Court confi...
cri.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.
Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...
Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...
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Volker Türk:
Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”
If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”
If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Türk: Israel’s plan for complete military takeover of Gaza must be immediately halted
The Israeli Government’s plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted. It runs contrary to the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Israel m...
www.ohchr.org
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Volker Türk:
Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”
If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”
If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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Wrote about this sort of thing in my chapter in our book on the Arab state— with Israeli surveillance of Palestine the most dystopian case of information collection and lethal deployment which still failed to deliver control.
Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wrote about this sort of thing in my chapter in our book on the Arab state— with Israeli surveillance of Palestine the most dystopian case of information collection and lethal deployment which still failed to deliver control.
Bless OCHA for continuing to try.
Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.
Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.
Due to a lack of fuel in #Gaza, people are resorting to dangerous methods that cause serious public health risks and environmental damage.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
We're doing our best to deliver critical supplies, but our work is being systematically obstructed.
August 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Bless OCHA for continuing to try.
Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.
Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.
There was a saying somewhere that one of the defining features of fascism is that it constantly questions established consensus on, say, democracy, human dignity, and equality; but I can't remember who said/wrote this and where. Does anyone know?
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
There was a saying somewhere that one of the defining features of fascism is that it constantly questions established consensus on, say, democracy, human dignity, and equality; but I can't remember who said/wrote this and where. Does anyone know?
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As we mark 80 years since Hiroshima, the global nuclear order is under real stress. Escalation risks in Europe, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula are intensifying. It’s time for bold, preventive action.
My piece in @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...
My piece in @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...
80 Years After Hiroshima, Nuclear Risks Are Rising
New channels of communication and wider support for the IAEA can help prevent catastrophe.
foreignpolicy.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
As we mark 80 years since Hiroshima, the global nuclear order is under real stress. Escalation risks in Europe, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula are intensifying. It’s time for bold, preventive action.
My piece in @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...
My piece in @foreignpolicy.com
foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...
For anyone with a faltering memory: the Tigray war was fought from 2020-2022 (although violence and deaths continued for quite some time afterwards) and it was monstrous, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. There was even an international Commission of Inquiry: www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
August 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
For anyone with a faltering memory: the Tigray war was fought from 2020-2022 (although violence and deaths continued for quite some time afterwards) and it was monstrous, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. There was even an international Commission of Inquiry: www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...
Russia is waging a monstrous war of aggression against Ukraine and it can't be repeated often enough that the war would end TODAY if Russia stopped fighting and withdrew all of its forces from Ukraine's territory.
If Ukraine stopped fighting, Ukraine would end.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
If Ukraine stopped fighting, Ukraine would end.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv rises to 31 as Ukraine calls for UN security council meeting – Europe live
Over 150 injured making Thursday one of the deadliest days for the Ukraine capital since start of war
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Russia is waging a monstrous war of aggression against Ukraine and it can't be repeated often enough that the war would end TODAY if Russia stopped fighting and withdrew all of its forces from Ukraine's territory.
If Ukraine stopped fighting, Ukraine would end.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
If Ukraine stopped fighting, Ukraine would end.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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States & @UN @UNFCCC @UNDP have #HumanRights obligations to tackle #ConflictOfInterest linked to #FossilFuels at #COP30 in #Brazil
particularly after @CIJ_ICJ Opinion shorturl.at/Z0KAD
👉 shorturl.at/xcEzE
@srenvironment.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social
particularly after @CIJ_ICJ Opinion shorturl.at/Z0KAD
👉 shorturl.at/xcEzE
@srenvironment.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social
Can a PR firm advising one of the world’s top fossil fuel companies be trusted to shape the message from the UN climate summit?
PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract
As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep…
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August 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
States & @UN @UNFCCC @UNDP have #HumanRights obligations to tackle #ConflictOfInterest linked to #FossilFuels at #COP30 in #Brazil
particularly after @CIJ_ICJ Opinion shorturl.at/Z0KAD
👉 shorturl.at/xcEzE
@srenvironment.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social
particularly after @CIJ_ICJ Opinion shorturl.at/Z0KAD
👉 shorturl.at/xcEzE
@srenvironment.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social
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Gaza is starving.
We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.
My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...
We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.
My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...
U.N. Relief Chief: Gaza is a man-made famine, the politics is a sideshow | CNN
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Tom Fletcher, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, about the “desperate… impossible conditions” inside Gaza and what he says are the “bureaucratic impediments” preventing...
www.cnn.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Gaza is starving.
We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.
My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...
We want to believe sustained international pressure will allow us to save as many lives as possible in Gaza. But so far we’re not seeing the scale of change we need.
My interview on @cnn.com with @camanpour.bsky.social : www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/T...
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Executive Director Alex de Waal & fellow @fletcherschool.bsky.social Professor @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
www.justsecurity.org
July 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Executive Director Alex de Waal & fellow @fletcherschool.bsky.social Professor @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
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Now @justsecurity.org
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
www.justsecurity.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Now @justsecurity.org
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.
Time has run out
www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
Billions of people have hard lives and the UN was founded 80 years ago to "save them from hell". It does that on a shoestring budget.
It would be INSANE to impose the same austerity measures that have ruined public services in countries around the globe on the United Nations now. #UN80
It would be INSANE to impose the same austerity measures that have ruined public services in countries around the globe on the United Nations now. #UN80
#UN80Initiative: Send an email to Guy Ryder and Volker Türk calling on them to base any reform process of the UN on the expectations, needs and demands of civil society, human rights defenders, victims and survivors: ishr.ch/campaign/ref...
July 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Billions of people have hard lives and the UN was founded 80 years ago to "save them from hell". It does that on a shoestring budget.
It would be INSANE to impose the same austerity measures that have ruined public services in countries around the globe on the United Nations now. #UN80
It would be INSANE to impose the same austerity measures that have ruined public services in countries around the globe on the United Nations now. #UN80
On the day of the resumption of the Two-State solution conference in New York, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel present reports determining that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza:
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-...
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-...
July 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On the day of the resumption of the Two-State solution conference in New York, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel present reports determining that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza:
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-...
www.btselem.org/publications...
www.phr.org.il/en/genocide-...
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NEW on Gaza from @crisisgroup.org:
"In short, Gaza needs both open gates and a ceasefire. Outside actors who have expressed outrage but failed to use their leverage must now demand both measures. The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
"In short, Gaza needs both open gates and a ceasefire. Outside actors who have expressed outrage but failed to use their leverage must now demand both measures. The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza | International Crisis Group
As ceasefire talks drag on, Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. But that step alone will not save the strip’s depleted population. Gaza...
www.crisisgroup.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW on Gaza from @crisisgroup.org:
"In short, Gaza needs both open gates and a ceasefire. Outside actors who have expressed outrage but failed to use their leverage must now demand both measures. The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
"In short, Gaza needs both open gates and a ceasefire. Outside actors who have expressed outrage but failed to use their leverage must now demand both measures. The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."
www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
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Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw.org is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. www.justsecurity.org/116780/gende...
Gender Apartheid Should Be an International Crime
All States should ensure the inclusion of gender apartheid in international law, including in the draft crimes against humanity treaty.
www.justsecurity.org
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw.org is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides. www.justsecurity.org/116780/gende...
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"Katz’s scheme breaks international law, said Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers. It also directly contradicted claims made hours earlier by ... Israel’s military chief ... that Palestinians were only displaced inside Gaza for their own protection"
“(Katz) laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity...While the government still calls the deportation ‘voluntary’, people in Gaza are under so many coercive measures that no departure from the strip can be seen in legal terms as consensual." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Defence minister orders IDF to ready ‘emigration plan’ for all Palestinians in Gaza in what legal expert calls blueprint for a crime against humanity
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Katz’s scheme breaks international law, said Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers. It also directly contradicted claims made hours earlier by ... Israel’s military chief ... that Palestinians were only displaced inside Gaza for their own protection"
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#UK I am receiving information and seeing videos of arrests of people protesting in London against Palestinian genocide and in support of Palestine Action. Some days ago colleagues and I wrote to the goverment indicating our concern for the misuse of terrorism laws against pro-Palestine advocacy 1/
July 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#UK I am receiving information and seeing videos of arrests of people protesting in London against Palestinian genocide and in support of Palestine Action. Some days ago colleagues and I wrote to the goverment indicating our concern for the misuse of terrorism laws against pro-Palestine advocacy 1/
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The Human Rights Council elections will take place this October. This year, 14 States are competing for 14 seats. ISHR, in collaboration with @amnesty.org, is organising a pledging event on 4 September – a key opportunity for civil society to engage with candidate States. ▶ ishr.ch/campaign/hrc...
July 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Human Rights Council elections will take place this October. This year, 14 States are competing for 14 seats. ISHR, in collaboration with @amnesty.org, is organising a pledging event on 4 September – a key opportunity for civil society to engage with candidate States. ▶ ishr.ch/campaign/hrc...