Notes from the Faultline
@faultlinenotes.bsky.social
We live along faultlines: places where rights, power, and principles collide.
Some cracks are loud. Others are quiet. All of them shape the world we live in.
These are our Notes from the Faultine.
Some cracks are loud. Others are quiet. All of them shape the world we live in.
These are our Notes from the Faultine.
A faultline⚡️
A war criminal welcomed at the highest level yesterday: Sergei Shoigu leading a visit to Egypt🇷🇺🇪🇬
Just days after the EU-Egypt summit, where human rights were set aside, Egypt welcomed Shoigu to Cairo. Silence bought the EU no leverage🇪🇺🇪🇬
A war criminal welcomed at the highest level yesterday: Sergei Shoigu leading a visit to Egypt🇷🇺🇪🇬
Just days after the EU-Egypt summit, where human rights were set aside, Egypt welcomed Shoigu to Cairo. Silence bought the EU no leverage🇪🇺🇪🇬
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A faultline⚡️
A war criminal welcomed at the highest level yesterday: Sergei Shoigu leading a visit to Egypt🇷🇺🇪🇬
Just days after the EU-Egypt summit, where human rights were set aside, Egypt welcomed Shoigu to Cairo. Silence bought the EU no leverage🇪🇺🇪🇬
A war criminal welcomed at the highest level yesterday: Sergei Shoigu leading a visit to Egypt🇷🇺🇪🇬
Just days after the EU-Egypt summit, where human rights were set aside, Egypt welcomed Shoigu to Cairo. Silence bought the EU no leverage🇪🇺🇪🇬
Fear has switched sides in Serbia🇷🇸⚡️
After a year of student and civic revolt, the Helsinki Committee lays bare a society at breaking point—corruption, repression, and propaganda met with defiance from a new generation.
🔗 www.helsinki.org.rs/doc/Report20...
After a year of student and civic revolt, the Helsinki Committee lays bare a society at breaking point—corruption, repression, and propaganda met with defiance from a new generation.
🔗 www.helsinki.org.rs/doc/Report20...
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Fear has switched sides in Serbia🇷🇸⚡️
After a year of student and civic revolt, the Helsinki Committee lays bare a society at breaking point—corruption, repression, and propaganda met with defiance from a new generation.
🔗 www.helsinki.org.rs/doc/Report20...
After a year of student and civic revolt, the Helsinki Committee lays bare a society at breaking point—corruption, repression, and propaganda met with defiance from a new generation.
🔗 www.helsinki.org.rs/doc/Report20...
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There is no such thing as withdrawing from a human rights convention but still respecting it: implementation without standards, obligations, monitoring and accountability is not credible.
Latvia’s move to quit the Istanbul Convention marks a major faultline for women’s rights and the rule of law⚖️⚡️♀︎
Latvia’s move to quit the Istanbul Convention marks a major faultline for women’s rights and the rule of law⚖️⚡️♀︎
November 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
There is no such thing as withdrawing from a human rights convention but still respecting it: implementation without standards, obligations, monitoring and accountability is not credible.
Latvia’s move to quit the Istanbul Convention marks a major faultline for women’s rights and the rule of law⚖️⚡️♀︎
Latvia’s move to quit the Istanbul Convention marks a major faultline for women’s rights and the rule of law⚖️⚡️♀︎
A year after the #NoviSad tragedy, Serbia’s streets still echo with repression🇷🇸⚡️
Protesters beaten, lawyers blocked, sound cannons deployed, NGOs raided. Civic space collapse💥
Read @goranmiletic.bsky.social on what must change, exclusive for @curecampaign.bsky.social
🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/s...
Protesters beaten, lawyers blocked, sound cannons deployed, NGOs raided. Civic space collapse💥
Read @goranmiletic.bsky.social on what must change, exclusive for @curecampaign.bsky.social
🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/s...
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A year after the #NoviSad tragedy, Serbia’s streets still echo with repression🇷🇸⚡️
Protesters beaten, lawyers blocked, sound cannons deployed, NGOs raided. Civic space collapse💥
Read @goranmiletic.bsky.social on what must change, exclusive for @curecampaign.bsky.social
🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/s...
Protesters beaten, lawyers blocked, sound cannons deployed, NGOs raided. Civic space collapse💥
Read @goranmiletic.bsky.social on what must change, exclusive for @curecampaign.bsky.social
🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/s...
When the far right’s words become parliament’s votes ⚡️
For the first time, a #LePen Rassemblement national text was adopted by the National Assembly 🇫🇷
The “cordon sanitaire” that once protected democracy has snapped ‼️
@liberation.fr
🔗 www.liberation.fr/politique/el...
For the first time, a #LePen Rassemblement national text was adopted by the National Assembly 🇫🇷
The “cordon sanitaire” that once protected democracy has snapped ‼️
@liberation.fr
🔗 www.liberation.fr/politique/el...
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
When the far right’s words become parliament’s votes ⚡️
For the first time, a #LePen Rassemblement national text was adopted by the National Assembly 🇫🇷
The “cordon sanitaire” that once protected democracy has snapped ‼️
@liberation.fr
🔗 www.liberation.fr/politique/el...
For the first time, a #LePen Rassemblement national text was adopted by the National Assembly 🇫🇷
The “cordon sanitaire” that once protected democracy has snapped ‼️
@liberation.fr
🔗 www.liberation.fr/politique/el...
Honouring those who built democracy matters most when it’s eroding before our eyes⚡️
@freedomhouse.bsky.social awarded the Palmer Prize to dissident, writer, diplomat, and our friend, Miklós Haraszti.
🔗 freedomhouse.org/article/free...
@freedomhouse.bsky.social awarded the Palmer Prize to dissident, writer, diplomat, and our friend, Miklós Haraszti.
🔗 freedomhouse.org/article/free...
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Honouring those who built democracy matters most when it’s eroding before our eyes⚡️
@freedomhouse.bsky.social awarded the Palmer Prize to dissident, writer, diplomat, and our friend, Miklós Haraszti.
🔗 freedomhouse.org/article/free...
@freedomhouse.bsky.social awarded the Palmer Prize to dissident, writer, diplomat, and our friend, Miklós Haraszti.
🔗 freedomhouse.org/article/free...
The UN turns 80 in crisis🇺🇳⚡️
Our new Notes from the Faultline: Dispatch #1 argues the 2026 appointment of the next Secretary-General will test the UN’s legitimacy.
A woman from Eastern Europe must lead — through transparency, courage and reform.
🔗 progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...
Our new Notes from the Faultline: Dispatch #1 argues the 2026 appointment of the next Secretary-General will test the UN’s legitimacy.
A woman from Eastern Europe must lead — through transparency, courage and reform.
🔗 progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The UN turns 80 in crisis🇺🇳⚡️
Our new Notes from the Faultline: Dispatch #1 argues the 2026 appointment of the next Secretary-General will test the UN’s legitimacy.
A woman from Eastern Europe must lead — through transparency, courage and reform.
🔗 progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...
Our new Notes from the Faultline: Dispatch #1 argues the 2026 appointment of the next Secretary-General will test the UN’s legitimacy.
A woman from Eastern Europe must lead — through transparency, courage and reform.
🔗 progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...
Environmental destruction is a crime against humanity 🌍⚡️
Leila Nadya Sadat argues that the UN treaty on crimes against humanity must recognise environmental harm as its 12th crime.
Close a 30-year gap: name what truly “shocks the conscience of humanity.”
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/122271/envir...
Leila Nadya Sadat argues that the UN treaty on crimes against humanity must recognise environmental harm as its 12th crime.
Close a 30-year gap: name what truly “shocks the conscience of humanity.”
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/122271/envir...
October 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Environmental destruction is a crime against humanity 🌍⚡️
Leila Nadya Sadat argues that the UN treaty on crimes against humanity must recognise environmental harm as its 12th crime.
Close a 30-year gap: name what truly “shocks the conscience of humanity.”
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/122271/envir...
Leila Nadya Sadat argues that the UN treaty on crimes against humanity must recognise environmental harm as its 12th crime.
Close a 30-year gap: name what truly “shocks the conscience of humanity.”
🔗 www.justsecurity.org/122271/envir...
Politicising security and intelligence services is a faultline for democracy⚡️🇮🇱
In a context of high tension and active conflict, as in Israël, it only further erodes the very principles those institutions are meant to protect and Israël's democracy.
🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
In a context of high tension and active conflict, as in Israël, it only further erodes the very principles those institutions are meant to protect and Israël's democracy.
🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
October 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Politicising security and intelligence services is a faultline for democracy⚡️🇮🇱
In a context of high tension and active conflict, as in Israël, it only further erodes the very principles those institutions are meant to protect and Israël's democracy.
🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
In a context of high tension and active conflict, as in Israël, it only further erodes the very principles those institutions are meant to protect and Israël's democracy.
🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
District Court of Massachusetts rules: using immigration law for Trump’s “retribution” against dissent violates the First Amendment 🇺🇸
When leaders punish speech, courts show up for democracy. A faultline ⚡️
We stand by you, Chief Judge William G. Young 🙏
🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When leaders punish speech, courts show up for democracy. A faultline ⚡️
We stand by you, Chief Judge William G. Young 🙏
🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
District Court of Massachusetts rules: using immigration law for Trump’s “retribution” against dissent violates the First Amendment 🇺🇸
When leaders punish speech, courts show up for democracy. A faultline ⚡️
We stand by you, Chief Judge William G. Young 🙏
🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When leaders punish speech, courts show up for democracy. A faultline ⚡️
We stand by you, Chief Judge William G. Young 🙏
🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Laureates of @coe.int's Václav Havel Prize remain jailed. International organisations praise democracy and human rights defenders, yet their leadership fails to act (even to try) to free them.
Recognition without protection risks hypocrisy. A faultline⚡️
🔗 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
Recognition without protection risks hypocrisy. A faultline⚡️
🔗 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Laureates of @coe.int's Václav Havel Prize remain jailed. International organisations praise democracy and human rights defenders, yet their leadership fails to act (even to try) to free them.
Recognition without protection risks hypocrisy. A faultline⚡️
🔗 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
Recognition without protection risks hypocrisy. A faultline⚡️
🔗 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...
Abuse of psychiatry: a dramatic faultline⚡️⤵️
Dec 2011: Mr Spivak was arrested and sent for psychiatric examination
Dec 2012-Oct 2014: confined in Dnipro Psy. Hospital, forcibly medicated, held in degrading conditions
Dec 2011: Mr Spivak was arrested and sent for psychiatric examination
Dec 2012-Oct 2014: confined in Dnipro Psy. Hospital, forcibly medicated, held in degrading conditions
September 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Abuse of psychiatry: a dramatic faultline⚡️⤵️
Dec 2011: Mr Spivak was arrested and sent for psychiatric examination
Dec 2012-Oct 2014: confined in Dnipro Psy. Hospital, forcibly medicated, held in degrading conditions
Dec 2011: Mr Spivak was arrested and sent for psychiatric examination
Dec 2012-Oct 2014: confined in Dnipro Psy. Hospital, forcibly medicated, held in degrading conditions
Human rights & democracy are not add-ons, rather foundation of European security. Anything else is a faultline⚡️
@switzerlandosce.bsky.social 2026 presidency will test if rules-based security still holds.
By @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social & @florianirminger.ch
🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...
@switzerlandosce.bsky.social 2026 presidency will test if rules-based security still holds.
By @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social & @florianirminger.ch
🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...
September 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Human rights & democracy are not add-ons, rather foundation of European security. Anything else is a faultline⚡️
@switzerlandosce.bsky.social 2026 presidency will test if rules-based security still holds.
By @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social & @florianirminger.ch
🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...
@switzerlandosce.bsky.social 2026 presidency will test if rules-based security still holds.
By @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social & @florianirminger.ch
🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...
#UNGA80 opens in New York 📍
A major faultline deepens at the heart of the UN system:
China is reshaping multilateralism to suit its interests — silencing dissent, rewriting norms, evading scrutiny ⚡️
As the US retreats, who will step up?
👉 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social
A major faultline deepens at the heart of the UN system:
China is reshaping multilateralism to suit its interests — silencing dissent, rewriting norms, evading scrutiny ⚡️
As the US retreats, who will step up?
👉 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
#UNGA80 opens in New York 📍
A major faultline deepens at the heart of the UN system:
China is reshaping multilateralism to suit its interests — silencing dissent, rewriting norms, evading scrutiny ⚡️
As the US retreats, who will step up?
👉 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social
A major faultline deepens at the heart of the UN system:
China is reshaping multilateralism to suit its interests — silencing dissent, rewriting norms, evading scrutiny ⚡️
As the US retreats, who will step up?
👉 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...
@fpcthinktank.bsky.social
Sudan: A War of Atrocities
Over 12 million people displaced; at least 150,000 killed.
Camps shelled & burned 🏚️
Systematic rape & sexual slavery used as weapons of war 💔
Starvation inflicted through sieges & blocked aid 🍂
A crisis the world cannot keep overlooking ⚡️ #HRC60
Over 12 million people displaced; at least 150,000 killed.
Camps shelled & burned 🏚️
Systematic rape & sexual slavery used as weapons of war 💔
Starvation inflicted through sieges & blocked aid 🍂
A crisis the world cannot keep overlooking ⚡️ #HRC60
September 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Sudan: A War of Atrocities
Over 12 million people displaced; at least 150,000 killed.
Camps shelled & burned 🏚️
Systematic rape & sexual slavery used as weapons of war 💔
Starvation inflicted through sieges & blocked aid 🍂
A crisis the world cannot keep overlooking ⚡️ #HRC60
Over 12 million people displaced; at least 150,000 killed.
Camps shelled & burned 🏚️
Systematic rape & sexual slavery used as weapons of war 💔
Starvation inflicted through sieges & blocked aid 🍂
A crisis the world cannot keep overlooking ⚡️ #HRC60
The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council opens today ⚖️ #HRC60
Headlines will focus on Gaza & the occupied territories, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and North Korea.
Many cracks risk going unseen — we'll look where silence reigns, the faultlines that need attention, too⚡️
Headlines will focus on Gaza & the occupied territories, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and North Korea.
Many cracks risk going unseen — we'll look where silence reigns, the faultlines that need attention, too⚡️
September 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council opens today ⚖️ #HRC60
Headlines will focus on Gaza & the occupied territories, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and North Korea.
Many cracks risk going unseen — we'll look where silence reigns, the faultlines that need attention, too⚡️
Headlines will focus on Gaza & the occupied territories, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and North Korea.
Many cracks risk going unseen — we'll look where silence reigns, the faultlines that need attention, too⚡️
International Literacy Day📚
Literacy is a human right and the key to many others. Yet 739 million people lack basic skills, 2/3 of them are women and girls.
Literacy decline is a silent crack, a faultline threatening justice, equality, and peace 🧐🌍⚡️
#LiteracyDay
Literacy is a human right and the key to many others. Yet 739 million people lack basic skills, 2/3 of them are women and girls.
Literacy decline is a silent crack, a faultline threatening justice, equality, and peace 🧐🌍⚡️
#LiteracyDay
September 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
International Literacy Day📚
Literacy is a human right and the key to many others. Yet 739 million people lack basic skills, 2/3 of them are women and girls.
Literacy decline is a silent crack, a faultline threatening justice, equality, and peace 🧐🌍⚡️
#LiteracyDay
Literacy is a human right and the key to many others. Yet 739 million people lack basic skills, 2/3 of them are women and girls.
Literacy decline is a silent crack, a faultline threatening justice, equality, and peace 🧐🌍⚡️
#LiteracyDay
Today we hear Ethiopia is bidding to host #COP32 🌍📢🇪🇹
Another COP in a country where civic space is crushed, dissent silenced, human rights ignored. Can climate change be tackled without real civil society?
This is a crack we should hear — a faultline ⚡️
Another COP in a country where civic space is crushed, dissent silenced, human rights ignored. Can climate change be tackled without real civil society?
This is a crack we should hear — a faultline ⚡️
September 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Today we hear Ethiopia is bidding to host #COP32 🌍📢🇪🇹
Another COP in a country where civic space is crushed, dissent silenced, human rights ignored. Can climate change be tackled without real civil society?
This is a crack we should hear — a faultline ⚡️
Another COP in a country where civic space is crushed, dissent silenced, human rights ignored. Can climate change be tackled without real civil society?
This is a crack we should hear — a faultline ⚡️
"I'm not a dictator" — Trump says, while declaring emergencies for trade deficits, protests, even universities.
This is how democracies slide: using the law itself to normalise unchecked power.
By Adam B. Kushner in @nytimes.com
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
This is how democracies slide: using the law itself to normalise unchecked power.
By Adam B. Kushner in @nytimes.com
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"I'm not a dictator" — Trump says, while declaring emergencies for trade deficits, protests, even universities.
This is how democracies slide: using the law itself to normalise unchecked power.
By Adam B. Kushner in @nytimes.com
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
This is how democracies slide: using the law itself to normalise unchecked power.
By Adam B. Kushner in @nytimes.com
🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
⚠️ Russia withdraws from Europe’s anti-torture treaty — stripping people in detention of their last formal international protection, incl. Ukrainian prisoners of war.
A faultline moment 🇷🇺⚡️A state accused of systematic torture now abandons the last possible oversight mechanism meant to prevent it.
A faultline moment 🇷🇺⚡️A state accused of systematic torture now abandons the last possible oversight mechanism meant to prevent it.
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
⚠️ Russia withdraws from Europe’s anti-torture treaty — stripping people in detention of their last formal international protection, incl. Ukrainian prisoners of war.
A faultline moment 🇷🇺⚡️A state accused of systematic torture now abandons the last possible oversight mechanism meant to prevent it.
A faultline moment 🇷🇺⚡️A state accused of systematic torture now abandons the last possible oversight mechanism meant to prevent it.
Antiliberalism at the heart of the faultlines we speak about⚡
Join today's event unpacking how transnational alliances are reshaping politics—and what it means for the future of the liberal order🌍
@illsp.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @robindebruin.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Join today's event unpacking how transnational alliances are reshaping politics—and what it means for the future of the liberal order🌍
@illsp.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @robindebruin.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Antiliberalism at the heart of the faultlines we speak about⚡
Join today's event unpacking how transnational alliances are reshaping politics—and what it means for the future of the liberal order🌍
@illsp.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @robindebruin.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
Join today's event unpacking how transnational alliances are reshaping politics—and what it means for the future of the liberal order🌍
@illsp.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @robindebruin.bsky.social @jessicareinisch.bsky.social
The 2025 UN SDG report: a world off track. 20% of targets on course, 18% regressing.
#SDG16 (peace, justice, institutions) shows conflict deaths surged 40%, defenders & journalists killed, trust in politics collapsing.
We are staring at a lost decade.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-d...
#SDG16 (peace, justice, institutions) shows conflict deaths surged 40%, defenders & journalists killed, trust in politics collapsing.
We are staring at a lost decade.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-d...
September 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The 2025 UN SDG report: a world off track. 20% of targets on course, 18% regressing.
#SDG16 (peace, justice, institutions) shows conflict deaths surged 40%, defenders & journalists killed, trust in politics collapsing.
We are staring at a lost decade.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-d...
#SDG16 (peace, justice, institutions) shows conflict deaths surged 40%, defenders & journalists killed, trust in politics collapsing.
We are staring at a lost decade.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/lost-d...