Florian Irminger
@florianirminger.ch
Change drives progress—not without resistance. Working for human rights, climate justice & rule-based international order. Father, reader, cyclist.
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Today EU Human Rights Representative @kajsaollongren.bsky.social presents her priorities before @droi.europarl.europa.eu & @afet.europarl.europa.eu ⚖️
She must address Azerbaijan’s human rights crisis:
1️⃣ Support exiled civil society & media
2️⃣ Build a common EU response
#StayTuned for our report 🇦🇿🇪🇺
She must address Azerbaijan’s human rights crisis:
1️⃣ Support exiled civil society & media
2️⃣ Build a common EU response
#StayTuned for our report 🇦🇿🇪🇺
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Today EU Human Rights Representative @kajsaollongren.bsky.social presents her priorities before @droi.europarl.europa.eu & @afet.europarl.europa.eu ⚖️
She must address Azerbaijan’s human rights crisis:
1️⃣ Support exiled civil society & media
2️⃣ Build a common EU response
#StayTuned for our report 🇦🇿🇪🇺
She must address Azerbaijan’s human rights crisis:
1️⃣ Support exiled civil society & media
2️⃣ Build a common EU response
#StayTuned for our report 🇦🇿🇪🇺
Western media is (finally) paying attention to Sudan: 25 million facing famine, 150000 dead, children executed, women raped, murdered 💔🇸🇩
Will those who showed (justified) solidarity with Gaza now invest energy for the people of Sundan?
Selective silence speaks loud.
Will those who showed (justified) solidarity with Gaza now invest energy for the people of Sundan?
Selective silence speaks loud.
Massacres in El-Fasher: children executed, hospitals attacked, women raped, murdered. Sudan descends further into horror.
Mobilisation is long overdue to protect those still alive and bring the killers to justice 🇸🇩⚡️
➡️ Interview with PM Kamil Idris in @blick.ch
english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...
Mobilisation is long overdue to protect those still alive and bring the killers to justice 🇸🇩⚡️
➡️ Interview with PM Kamil Idris in @blick.ch
english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...
Sudan PM demands international trial over RSF ‘crimes’
Sudan’s prime minister has called for atrocities committed in the city of al-Fashir, seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, to be tried in the
english.alarabiya.net
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Western media is (finally) paying attention to Sudan: 25 million facing famine, 150000 dead, children executed, women raped, murdered 💔🇸🇩
Will those who showed (justified) solidarity with Gaza now invest energy for the people of Sundan?
Selective silence speaks loud.
Will those who showed (justified) solidarity with Gaza now invest energy for the people of Sundan?
Selective silence speaks loud.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“State violence starts when the state withdraws protection” ♀︎💪💜
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 2:58 PM
“State violence starts when the state withdraws protection” ♀︎💪💜
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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...
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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...
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The European five-step playbook is unfolding to kill civil society:
📌 Fabricate the scandal
📌 Institutionalise the witch-hunt
📌 Defund
📌 Criminalise
📌 Exploit what’s left
What disappears with NGOs isn’t “lobbying”, it’s accountability itself.
@euobserver.com
euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...
📌 Fabricate the scandal
📌 Institutionalise the witch-hunt
📌 Defund
📌 Criminalise
📌 Exploit what’s left
What disappears with NGOs isn’t “lobbying”, it’s accountability itself.
@euobserver.com
euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...
EUobserver
Influential. Investigative. Independent. EUobserver is a online non-profit news outlet reporting on the European Union.
euobserver.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The European five-step playbook is unfolding to kill civil society:
📌 Fabricate the scandal
📌 Institutionalise the witch-hunt
📌 Defund
📌 Criminalise
📌 Exploit what’s left
What disappears with NGOs isn’t “lobbying”, it’s accountability itself.
@euobserver.com
euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...
📌 Fabricate the scandal
📌 Institutionalise the witch-hunt
📌 Defund
📌 Criminalise
📌 Exploit what’s left
What disappears with NGOs isn’t “lobbying”, it’s accountability itself.
@euobserver.com
euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...
So happy for Miklós Haraszti, a friend, mentor, lifelong defender of democracy. From Hungary’s underground press to the UN and OSCE, his courage and integrity, his humour and intelligence have inspired me.
A well-deserved recognition by @freedomhouse.bsky.social 🫶
A well-deserved recognition by @freedomhouse.bsky.social 🫶
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 9:31 AM
So happy for Miklós Haraszti, a friend, mentor, lifelong defender of democracy. From Hungary’s underground press to the UN and OSCE, his courage and integrity, his humour and intelligence have inspired me.
A well-deserved recognition by @freedomhouse.bsky.social 🫶
A well-deserved recognition by @freedomhouse.bsky.social 🫶
Unacceptable threats against @mmkarmenia.bsky.social in Armenia 🇦🇲
Thanks to Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders for speaking up. We all stand in solidarity with Mamikon 💙🏳️🌈
@pinkarmenia.org
Thanks to Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders for speaking up. We all stand in solidarity with Mamikon 💙🏳️🌈
@pinkarmenia.org
Hearing disturbing news that HRD Mamikon Hovsepyan, founder of @pinkarmenia.org, has been publicly targeted by #Armenia's Ministry of Health, smeared & unlawfully suspended from the CCM, a key mechanism against HIV, TB & malaria, after denouncing abuses in the health sector. (1/2)
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Unacceptable threats against @mmkarmenia.bsky.social in Armenia 🇦🇲
Thanks to Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders for speaking up. We all stand in solidarity with Mamikon 💙🏳️🌈
@pinkarmenia.org
Thanks to Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders for speaking up. We all stand in solidarity with Mamikon 💙🏳️🌈
@pinkarmenia.org
Time for a woman at the head of the United Nations 💪
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 1:25 PM
Time for a woman at the head of the United Nations 💪
Looking forward to spend a few days in Brussels ☀️
On the agenda:
🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 EU-Azerbaijan relations
🚨🇪🇺 European security architecture
🇺🇦 Rule of law in Ukraine
🫶 Seeing great friends and colleagues again
On the agenda:
🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 EU-Azerbaijan relations
🚨🇪🇺 European security architecture
🇺🇦 Rule of law in Ukraine
🫶 Seeing great friends and colleagues again
October 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Looking forward to spend a few days in Brussels ☀️
On the agenda:
🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 EU-Azerbaijan relations
🚨🇪🇺 European security architecture
🇺🇦 Rule of law in Ukraine
🫶 Seeing great friends and colleagues again
On the agenda:
🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 EU-Azerbaijan relations
🚨🇪🇺 European security architecture
🇺🇦 Rule of law in Ukraine
🫶 Seeing great friends and colleagues again
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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...
Great to meet the FGIP Board in Prague💙
Our strategy, based on 45 years of experience, addresses today’s challenges:
💪Multifaceted mental health crisis
⚖️Repression targeting civil society
🛑Populism and reduced foreign funding.
🔗 fgip-global.org/wp-content/u...
Our strategy, based on 45 years of experience, addresses today’s challenges:
💪Multifaceted mental health crisis
⚖️Repression targeting civil society
🛑Populism and reduced foreign funding.
🔗 fgip-global.org/wp-content/u...
October 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Great to meet the FGIP Board in Prague💙
Our strategy, based on 45 years of experience, addresses today’s challenges:
💪Multifaceted mental health crisis
⚖️Repression targeting civil society
🛑Populism and reduced foreign funding.
🔗 fgip-global.org/wp-content/u...
Our strategy, based on 45 years of experience, addresses today’s challenges:
💪Multifaceted mental health crisis
⚖️Repression targeting civil society
🛑Populism and reduced foreign funding.
🔗 fgip-global.org/wp-content/u...
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The so-called head of 🇬🇪 government was still trying to make himself look important among the European leaders just 2 days ago.
Today, his regime is waging war against its own people with tear gas and violence. What a disgrace.
Europe, stand with the Georgians.
Today, his regime is waging war against its own people with tear gas and violence. What a disgrace.
Europe, stand with the Georgians.
October 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The so-called head of 🇬🇪 government was still trying to make himself look important among the European leaders just 2 days ago.
Today, his regime is waging war against its own people with tear gas and violence. What a disgrace.
Europe, stand with the Georgians.
Today, his regime is waging war against its own people with tear gas and violence. What a disgrace.
Europe, stand with the Georgians.
This 🇬🇪⤵️
⭕️5th president of #Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili, speaking from Rustaveli Ave, condemned the attempted takeover of Presidential Palace as a provocation to discredit #GeorgiaProtests. She said protesters who’ve been on the streets for 310 days remain committed to non-violence and stay on Rustaveli
October 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This 🇬🇪⤵️
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The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/80/219: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero - Freedom of assembly and association rights, collective action and human solid...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero, sounds the alarm about the compounding existential threats to these rights,...
www.ohchr.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Швейцария: права человека должны стать главной темой ОБСЕ🇨🇭 Oпубликовано с Элеонорой Монгелли
@eleonoramongelli.bsky.social
@eleonoramongelli.bsky.social
Швейцария: права человека должны стать главной темой ОБСЕ
Таково мнение правозащитницы Элеоноры Монжелли и президента женевской НКО Progress & Change Action Lab Флориана Ирмингера.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/rus/война-и-мир/швейцария-должна-поставить-права-человека-в-центр-работы-обсе/90010251
October 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Швейцария: права человека должны стать главной темой ОБСЕ🇨🇭 Oпубликовано с Элеонорой Монгелли
@eleonoramongelli.bsky.social
@eleonoramongelli.bsky.social
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When you arrive in Prague and the radio plays the perfect welcome song: 99 Luftballons. #TaxiSkeet
October 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
When you arrive in Prague and the radio plays the perfect welcome song: 99 Luftballons. #TaxiSkeet
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When multilateral organisations yield to a “culture of caution”, they lose legitimacy in the eyes of those who most embody their values, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists.
That loss is a faultline ⚡️
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautio...
That loss is a faultline ⚡️
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautio...
Caution Costs: Human Rights Defenders Left Behind
“From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia” — journalist Mzia Amaglobeli These words from Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli cut to the heart of today’s faultline. ...
www.linkedin.com
September 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
When multilateral organisations yield to a “culture of caution”, they lose legitimacy in the eyes of those who most embody their values, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists.
That loss is a faultline ⚡️
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautio...
That loss is a faultline ⚡️
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautio...
Balthasar Glättli spricht von einer “Bromance”. Ich lernte ihn durch unsere Zusammenarbeit als klugen, offenen, bescheidenen Menschen kennen. Sein Einfluss auf die Grünen Schweiz war immens.
Zürich verdient jetzt @bglaettli.bsky.social 💚
🔗 www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/people/swiss...
Zürich verdient jetzt @bglaettli.bsky.social 💚
🔗 www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/people/swiss...
«Man ist immer an allem schuld»
Ex-Parteichefs Balthasar Glätti und Petra Gössi sprechen über ihre Zeit als Parteipräsidenten.
www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch
September 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Balthasar Glättli spricht von einer “Bromance”. Ich lernte ihn durch unsere Zusammenarbeit als klugen, offenen, bescheidenen Menschen kennen. Sein Einfluss auf die Grünen Schweiz war immens.
Zürich verdient jetzt @bglaettli.bsky.social 💚
🔗 www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/people/swiss...
Zürich verdient jetzt @bglaettli.bsky.social 💚
🔗 www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch/people/swiss...
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders has submitted an amicus brief in Anar Mammadli’s case 🌍
Azerbaijan has a duty under the Aarhus Convention: defenders must not face reprisals ⚖️
Calls for Anar’s release and for charges to be dropped 🕊️
🔗 unece.org/ACSR_C_2024_...
Azerbaijan has a duty under the Aarhus Convention: defenders must not face reprisals ⚖️
Calls for Anar’s release and for charges to be dropped 🕊️
🔗 unece.org/ACSR_C_2024_...
September 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders has submitted an amicus brief in Anar Mammadli’s case 🌍
Azerbaijan has a duty under the Aarhus Convention: defenders must not face reprisals ⚖️
Calls for Anar’s release and for charges to be dropped 🕊️
🔗 unece.org/ACSR_C_2024_...
Azerbaijan has a duty under the Aarhus Convention: defenders must not face reprisals ⚖️
Calls for Anar’s release and for charges to be dropped 🕊️
🔗 unece.org/ACSR_C_2024_...
Honoured to have had the chance to speak at the 8th Leonidas Donskis Conference in Vilnius on Human Rights: from Hope to Despair.
For the first time since the Holocaust, humanity will end this decade worse off than it began 📉
A thread below 🧵⤵️
For the first time since the Holocaust, humanity will end this decade worse off than it began 📉
A thread below 🧵⤵️
September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Honoured to have had the chance to speak at the 8th Leonidas Donskis Conference in Vilnius on Human Rights: from Hope to Despair.
For the first time since the Holocaust, humanity will end this decade worse off than it began 📉
A thread below 🧵⤵️
For the first time since the Holocaust, humanity will end this decade worse off than it began 📉
A thread below 🧵⤵️
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"...not only are [Trump's] aid cuts killing children every day ... the death toll is accelerating"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy
www.nytimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"...not only are [Trump's] aid cuts killing children every day ... the death toll is accelerating"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...