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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This 👇 . Ukraine betrayed by the West for the second time. #BudapestMemorandum #Trump-PutinDirtyDeal #1994 #2025
As we speak, the Western world is currently discussing whether to impose a cap on the army of a country that has been invaded, while sparing the country that launched the invasion from any such limit.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This 👇 . Ukraine betrayed by the West for the second time. #BudapestMemorandum #Trump-PutinDirtyDeal #1994 #2025
Wer im Parlament einen erklärten Antisemiten und Nationalsozialisten ehrt, stellt die Werte infrage, auf denen die (zweite) Republik Österreich aufgebaut wurde 🇦🇹
Die FPÖ beschmutzt die Ehre der Republik.
orf.at/stories/3411...
Die FPÖ beschmutzt die Ehre der Republik.
orf.at/stories/3411...
Dinghofer-Symposium: Gegenveranstaltung vor Parlament
orf.at
November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Wer im Parlament einen erklärten Antisemiten und Nationalsozialisten ehrt, stellt die Werte infrage, auf denen die (zweite) Republik Österreich aufgebaut wurde 🇦🇹
Die FPÖ beschmutzt die Ehre der Republik.
orf.at/stories/3411...
Die FPÖ beschmutzt die Ehre der Republik.
orf.at/stories/3411...
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#COP30 ends in Belém🌍🌳
The façade of multilateralism holds, but ambition does not. No fossil-fuel exit plan, weak national pledges, and only vague steps on adaptation finance.
The crisis moves faster than the process ⚡️
The façade of multilateralism holds, but ambition does not. No fossil-fuel exit plan, weak national pledges, and only vague steps on adaptation finance.
The crisis moves faster than the process ⚡️
November 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#COP30 ends in Belém🌍🌳
The façade of multilateralism holds, but ambition does not. No fossil-fuel exit plan, weak national pledges, and only vague steps on adaptation finance.
The crisis moves faster than the process ⚡️
The façade of multilateralism holds, but ambition does not. No fossil-fuel exit plan, weak national pledges, and only vague steps on adaptation finance.
The crisis moves faster than the process ⚡️
Tout est dit 🧐
L’état de notre démocratie, c’est la force de notre défense et la crédibilité de notre sécurité. C’est la raison pour laquelle Trump et Poutine poussent les extrêmes droites en Europe pour nous affaiblir et nous neutraliser.
@fhollande.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
L’état de notre démocratie, c’est la force de notre défense et la crédibilité de notre sécurité. C’est la raison pour laquelle Trump et Poutine poussent les extrêmes droites en Europe pour nous affaiblir et nous neutraliser.
@fhollande.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
François Hollande : « Le plan de Trump pour l’Ukraine réduit l’Europe au rang de spectatrice assiégée »
L’ancien chef de l’Etat estime, dans un entretien au « Monde », que « pour Trump, notre continent est fini, il n’est plus dans le jeu », et que si Zelensky « tombe, c’est notre sécurité qui est entamé...
www.lemonde.fr
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tout est dit 🧐
L’état de notre démocratie, c’est la force de notre défense et la crédibilité de notre sécurité. C’est la raison pour laquelle Trump et Poutine poussent les extrêmes droites en Europe pour nous affaiblir et nous neutraliser.
@fhollande.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
L’état de notre démocratie, c’est la force de notre défense et la crédibilité de notre sécurité. C’est la raison pour laquelle Trump et Poutine poussent les extrêmes droites en Europe pour nous affaiblir et nous neutraliser.
@fhollande.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
I want my daughter to grow up knowing that if a man ever calls one of her friends or colleagues “piggy”, she can feel empowered to stand up for them 💪
There is no “business as usual” in such a situation.
There is no “business as usual” in such a situation.
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I want my daughter to grow up knowing that if a man ever calls one of her friends or colleagues “piggy”, she can feel empowered to stand up for them 💪
There is no “business as usual” in such a situation.
There is no “business as usual” in such a situation.
So right @moiradonegan.bsky.social!
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality amongst powerful men. And that’s what should hold our attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality amongst powerful men. And that’s what should hold our attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality among the elite | Moira Donegan
Epstein paints Trump as someone he knew intimately. But the documents also reveal how many powerful men confided in him
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
So right @moiradonegan.bsky.social!
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality amongst powerful men. And that’s what should hold our attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Jeffrey Epstein’s emails reveal a disdain for morality amongst powerful men. And that’s what should hold our attention.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A new “Community of Central Asia” is taking shape 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿
A regional bloc with no binding standards, no space for accountability. Azerbaijan joining shows what this model rewards: human rights and rule of law are optional 🇦🇿⚡
And the Council of Europe’s recent charm tour in the region proves useless.
A regional bloc with no binding standards, no space for accountability. Azerbaijan joining shows what this model rewards: human rights and rule of law are optional 🇦🇿⚡
And the Council of Europe’s recent charm tour in the region proves useless.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A new “Community of Central Asia” is taking shape 🇰🇿🇰🇬🇹🇯🇹🇲🇺🇿
A regional bloc with no binding standards, no space for accountability. Azerbaijan joining shows what this model rewards: human rights and rule of law are optional 🇦🇿⚡
And the Council of Europe’s recent charm tour in the region proves useless.
A regional bloc with no binding standards, no space for accountability. Azerbaijan joining shows what this model rewards: human rights and rule of law are optional 🇦🇿⚡
And the Council of Europe’s recent charm tour in the region proves useless.
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The EU’s new plan to protect democracy targets foreign influence and misinformation.
By copying “foreign agent” laws, 🇪🇺-states could harm democracy and human rights defenders, the EU’s real shield 🛡️⚡️
By @carlosdolan.bsky.social in @epc-official.bsky.social
www.epc.eu/publication/...
By copying “foreign agent” laws, 🇪🇺-states could harm democracy and human rights defenders, the EU’s real shield 🛡️⚡️
By @carlosdolan.bsky.social in @epc-official.bsky.social
www.epc.eu/publication/...
Democracy shield: Defense or distraction?
European democracy is not in good health. Though not experiencing the death throes visible in the US, symptoms of a deeper malaise are unmistakable.
www.epc.eu
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The EU’s new plan to protect democracy targets foreign influence and misinformation.
By copying “foreign agent” laws, 🇪🇺-states could harm democracy and human rights defenders, the EU’s real shield 🛡️⚡️
By @carlosdolan.bsky.social in @epc-official.bsky.social
www.epc.eu/publication/...
By copying “foreign agent” laws, 🇪🇺-states could harm democracy and human rights defenders, the EU’s real shield 🛡️⚡️
By @carlosdolan.bsky.social in @epc-official.bsky.social
www.epc.eu/publication/...
A day without earl grey just isn’t a good day. #OMG #JustSaying
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A day without earl grey just isn’t a good day. #OMG #JustSaying
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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...