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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 3d

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...

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Michael Roth 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪🇮🇱 @michaelroth.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 4d

This 🇬🇪⤵️

Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 4d

⭕️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

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 6d

Швейцария: права человека должны стать главной темой ОБСЕ🇨🇭 Oпубликовано с Элеонорой Монгелли
@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

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Philipp Sonderegger @phs.wien · 12d

Wow!

youtu.be/I_KsGWbPY8c?...

🇸🇮 Slovenia - President Addresses United Nations General Debate, 80th Session | #UNGA

YouTube video by United Nations

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 7d

When you arrive in Prague and the radio plays the perfect welcome song: 99 Luftballons. #TaxiSkeet

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Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 11d

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...

«Man ist immer an allem schuld»

Ex-Parteichefs Balthasar Glätti und Petra Gössi sprechen über ihre Zeit als Parteipräsidenten.

www.schweizer-illustrierte.ch

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 15d

OMG 🥸 #Trump #UNGA80

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Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan @endrepression-az.org · 15d

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_...

Graphic with a teal background showing a quote from Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders under the Aarhus Convention. Text reads: “Environmental defenders must not be penalised, persecuted or harassed for their work under the Aarhus Convention. I therefore urge to ensure: • The prompt release of Mr. Anar Mammadli from pre-trial detention; • The withdrawal of all criminal charges against Mr. Anar Mammadli.” Below is Michel Forst’s name, title, reference to his letter on 19 September 2025, and a small photo of him in front of the UN flag. Website link: www.free-anar.site.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 16d

I shared three reflections:
1️⃣ Civil society must go back to basics
2️⃣ Small victories must be recognised and rewarded
3️⃣ Mental health must be at the centre

Every small step counts. Each act of dignity is a seed of renewal ✨

Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 16d

Yet as Svetlana Alexievich reminds us, there is consolation through the apocalypse: small acts of courage, modest steps forward, fragments of dignity that still matter 🌱

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 16d

Nearly two thirds of SDG targets are off track 🎯
733 million people face hunger 🍞
123 million are displaced 🏚️
In conflicts, 70% of civilian victims are women and children 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

A lost decade for humanity.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 16d

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 🧵⤵️

A smartphone on a stand shows the website “dissident-tour.com” with the text “Are you ready to unveil the secrets of Vilnius underground?”

A speaker, Florian Irminger, in a grey suit with a white shirt, holding a tablet, sits on stage with a microphone headset. A presentation screen is behind him.

A panel discussion at the 8th Leonidas Donskis Memorial Conference. Five panelists are seated on stage in front of a screen showing “Panel II” with the names of the moderator Janet Gunn and panelists Anna Chernova, Florian Irminger, Jonathan Boyd, and Brigita Dyburytė. Audience members are seated in rows facing the panel.

A desk with posters reading “NO!” and “ALIVE? ALIVE.” in front of a large wall image showing three soldiers, one holding a European Union flag. All of it in Ukrainian colours.

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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 17d

"...not only are [Trump's] aid cuts killing children every day ... the death toll is accelerating"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Most Lethal Policy

www.nytimes.com

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 17d

This should matter to all of us and indeed be a priority ⤵️

Notes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 17d

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

Psychiatric abuse in action in Belarus

The Hanchar family of the town of Krasnapolle, Mahiliou region, has called upon Belarusian human rights activists and independent journalists to help protect their under-age daughter from psychiatry abuse. The Hanchars claim that their daughter Liudmila is about to be hospitalized by order of local police. According to Liudmila’s elder sister Volha, two policemen accompanied by a psychiatrist paid a visit to the family’s apartment to hospitalize the girl, claiming that she needed immediate medical intervention due to ‘severe mental disorder’, cause by a school incident a year ago, when the girl was badly beaten by her classmates. After Liudmila’s mother said the girl was out and demanded that the officials left the flat, the policemen pinioned the woman’s arms and the doctor made an injection of unknown medicine.
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 18d

2026 wird @SwissMFA @ignaziocassis🇨🇭 den #OSZE-Vorsitz übernehmen. Dies bietet die Gelegenheit, sich auf eine der Kernaufgaben zu konzentrieren: eine regelbasierte Sicherheit, mit Menschenrechte im Mittelpunkt, schreibe ich mit @EleMongelli @swissinfo_de
www.swissinfo.ch/ger/krieg-fr...

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 20d

Full room for Rachel Denber update on the human rights situation in the OSCE region. Great to have her here with us 🙌

Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21d

“Back to Square One?”

Leonidas Donskis Conference about to start in Vilnius, discussing the rise and fall of the Helsinki Agreements #OSCE2025.

Follow here for live updates ⤵️

Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 20d

Worrying: Roy Allison underlines how Putin’s Russia is reinterpreting what the state border means, now turning towards the “state’s strategic borders”. In other words, it isn’t hiding anymore that it sees a right for itself to change its borders to respond to strategic interests.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 20d

Paulius Gritenas speaking about the work of Leonidas Donskis underlines how authoritarians live on the lack of imagination in society, imagination that something else was possible.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21d

Russia regressed to a Stalinist regime of total repression. We need to know that we are not dealing with the Soviet Union of the 1980s when it through political imprisonment basically ended the Russian human rights movement — the situation is now worse, details Robert van Voren.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21d

Every day heroes are buried with no end of war in sight—Robert van Voren speaking at opening of Conference.

50 years after the signing of the Helsinki Act, this is the reality we live in. No family gathering, no meeting with friends ever take place without a talk about war.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21d

Leonidas Donskis would call on us to remain vigilant: human rights aren’t a matter of declarations. They only matter when you defend them in practice.

To remember is not only to honour but to continue and finish his conversations, says incoming rector Vytautas Magnus University.

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Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21d

The conference takes place as OSCE permanent council will hear Switzerland’s priorities for its 2026 presidency.

➡️ Our take with @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social on why and how to prioritise human rights www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...

Why Switzerland must put human rights at the core of the OSCE

The presidency presents an opportunity to refocus the organisation on one of its core mission, Eleonora Mongelli and Florian Irminger argue.

www.swissinfo.ch

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