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Lars Lott @larslott.bsky.social · 7d

Auf der Suche nach einer Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich der empirischen Menschenrechtsforschung? An der @fau.de suchen wir eine*n Postdoc für 3+3 Jahre für unser Team. tinyurl.com/4d3w3th6

www.pol.phil.fau.de

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Markus Krajewski @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social · 29d

Katia Hamann, @mehrdadpayandeh.bsky.social (beide von der @buceriuslaw.bsky.social) und ich haben in der aktuellen Ausgabe der JZ von @mohrsiebeck.bsky.social zu sozialen Menschenrechten als subjektiven Rechten geschrieben.
TLDR: Man kann sie einklagen!
www.mohrsiebeck.com/artikel/sozi...

Auszug aus der ersten Seite der Juristenzeitung mit einem Artikel zu sozialen Menschenrechten

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · Aug 29

Congrats!!! Looking forward to reading it :)

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Dr Maja Grundler @majagrundler.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s publication day!
My monograph 'Irregular Migration, Refugee Status and the Law: Protection from Dangerous Migratory Journeys' is out with @routledgebooks.bsky.social: www.routledge.com/Irregular-Mi...

If you’re interested, please consider asking your institution’s library to purchase a copy.

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · Jul 28

1/ Today we launched one of two first reports by Israeli organisations, calling out the genocide in Gaza. The other report was published by B'tselem.

Our own report, by Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, focuses on the systematic destruction of health system.

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations, Leon!

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Markus Krajewski @krajewskimarkus.bsky.social · Jul 13

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@fau.de professor @grabaranowska.bsky.social is part of this group as member of the @wgeid.bsky.social

UN experts alarmed by resumption of US deportations to third countries, warn authorities to assess risks of torture

GENEVA - UN human rights experts today sounded the alarm at the human rights implications of a recent ruling by the United States’ Supreme Court that paves the way for deportations of foreign nationa...

www.ohchr.org

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FAU Erlangen-Nbg @fau.de · May 22

FAU-Projekt „Transforming Human Rights” wird Exzellenzcluster 🏅

Heute hat die DFG und der Wissenschaftsrat die künftig geförderten Exzellenzcluster bekanntgegeben. Und die FAU darf jubeln: Das Projekt „Transforming Human Rights“ ist dabei! 🤩 #FAUproud (1/3)

www.fau.de/2025/05/news...

Exzellenzstrategie: Herausragend in der Menschenrechtsforschung

Große Freude an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU): Das Forschungsprojekt „Transforming Human Rights“ wird Exzellenzcluster. Am späten Donnerstagnachmittag gaben die Deutsche…

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Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg | FAU CHREN @humanrights-fau.bsky.social · May 20

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re FAU CHREN – the FAU Research Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg.

✋🏿✋🏽✋ We research and teach human rights with a global, interdisciplinary lens.

➕Follow us for insights from our projects, researchers & students.
🌐 www.humanrights.fau.de
#HumanRights #CHREN #FAU

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 16

Sehr empfehlenswert: Constantin Hrschuka erklärt, warum die aktuellen Kontrollen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen rechtswidrig sind.

Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · May 15

Mein Kollege Constantin Hrschuka zerpflückt auf dem @verfassungsblog.de jede Begründung von Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen. 👓

"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."

verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...

Dobrindts Rechtsbruch

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · May 15

Mein Kollege Constantin Hrschuka zerpflückt auf dem @verfassungsblog.de jede Begründung von Zurückweisungen an den Grenzen. 👓

"Die Weisung des Innenministers und die aktuelle Praxis der Zurückweisungen an den deutschen Binnengrenzen sind evident rechtswidrig."

verfassungsblog.de/zuruckweisun...

Dobrindts Rechtsbruch

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Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi @liliantsourdi.bsky.social · May 15

Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 15

Wspaniale! Gratulacje :)

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 5

10 more days to apply for the great (full-time and permanent contract) job at @fau.de Center for Human Rights.

We are looking for an independant researcher, with a PhD, German and English language skills (both C1) and passion for human rights research.

www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...

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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · May 4

#afdverbotprüfen

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 5

The ICPPED itself not, but prohibition of deporting to places where human rights violations (including ED) will take place, yes.

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 5

Sorry for the delay in responding! From what I have so far understood, the fate and whereabout are known until they are handled over to El Salvador. So it only becomes concealed, once people are in El Salvador. This means, the ED takes place in El Salvador, but US deports knowing that.

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 1

See also: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts alarmed at illegal deportations from the United States to El Salvador

GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today expressed deep concern at the apparently unlawful deportations of over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men – allegedly involved with gangs – from the United Stat...

www.ohchr.org

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · May 1

From what I have followed the cases, there might have been (short-term) enforced disappearances within ICE detention, but those deported are registered to be deported. So the deportation itself would no be ED, however some then disappeared in El Salvador prison system. www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

US/El Salvador: Venezuelan Deportees Forcibly Disappeared

The governments of the United States and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention.

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León Castellanos-Jankiewicz @leoncastjan.bsky.social · Apr 24

New publication with my friend Momchil Milanov! We follow the intellectual journey of André Mandelstam, a human rights forerunner who also dabbled with imperialism — a complicated figure, yet one worth studying. Open access @ejiltalk.bsky.social :
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A Well-known Stranger: André Mandelstam – From Empire to Human Rights

André Mandelstam delivered four courses at the Hague Academy between its inaugural session in 1923 and 1934, making him one of the most frequent lecturers

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Apr 27

New Event!
📆30th April
🕟4:30pm Thailand Time

Join @fidh-official.bsky.social for panel "Responses to Enforced disappearance in South-East Asia" at Thammasat Univestity, Bangkok.
w/ @grabaranowska.bsky.social Shui-Meng Ng, Ronnakon Burmee & Gabriella Citroni

RESPONSES TO ENFORCED DISAPPERANCE
IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA

30 April 2025 - 4:30 - 5:30PM
Room LT1 on the 1st Floor of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus

Event information:
At the margins of the 136th session
of the Working Group on Enforced
Disappearances, which will take
place in Bangkok, Thailand, the
Working Group and the International
Federation for Human Rights will co-
organize a panel discussion on
enforced disappearance in South-
East Asia, bringing together civil
society, victims, academia, and the
members of the Working Group.

PANELISTS
Grażyna Baranowska (moderator)
Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

Shui-Meng Ng
Singaporean Activist and wife of disappeared Laotian
civil society leader Sombath Somphone

Ronnakorn Bunmee
Vice Rector for Student Affairs and Legal Affairs at
Thammasat University and member of the National
Committee on the Prevention and Suppression of
Torture and Enforced Disappearance

Mohammed Al-Obaidi
Member of the Working Group on Enforced or
Involuntary Disappearances for Asia-Pacific

Gabriella Citroni
Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Enforced
or Involuntary Disappearances

English-Thai simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the event.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · Apr 25

Human rights were an imperialist tool, but also an anti-imperialist tool, but also a socialist tool, but also a liberal tool, but also a conservative tool, but also...

Ashoka Mukpo @shokes.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'm seeing a lot of "human rights were an imperial tool" discourse right now, and yes sometimes - but I don't think you're going to like a world without them.

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Philipp Sonderegger @phs.wien · Apr 22

Due to the secretive nature of pushbacks – whose systematic occurrence the court acknowledges in the case of certain states – the burden of proof must shift to the states in the interest of evidentiary equality.

Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · Apr 22

The Strasbourg Observer published a joint blog post (with MB Dembour and I Kienzle) summarizing the main points raised in our TPI to the ECtHR in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece, concerning evidence and pushback

strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...

Evidencing Pushbacks at borders of CoE Member States: Third Party Intervention in A.A.N. and Others v. Greece (38203/20) - Strasbourg Observers

Grażyna Baranowska Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Isabel Kienzle This post, an output of the DISSECT project, is concomitantly being published on the DISSECT blog Regularly operated at many borders of CoE me...

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · Apr 22

The Strasbourg Observer published a joint blog post (with MB Dembour and I Kienzle) summarizing the main points raised in our TPI to the ECtHR in the case of A.A.N. and Others v. Greece, concerning evidence and pushback

strasbourgobservers.com/2025/04/18/e...

Evidencing Pushbacks at borders of CoE Member States: Third Party Intervention in A.A.N. and Others v. Greece (38203/20) - Strasbourg Observers

Grażyna Baranowska Marie-Bénédicte Dembour Isabel Kienzle This post, an output of the DISSECT project, is concomitantly being published on the DISSECT blog Regularly operated at many borders of CoE me...

strasbourgobservers.com

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Grażyna Baranowska @grabaranowska.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks Cathryn for flagging this text and Brian's post. Indeed, it must have been clear that persons were deported into a context in which enforced disappearances are very likely to occur.

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Apr 20

@grabaranowska.bsky.social - something to write more about?

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · Apr 20

One thing that US officials involved in disappearing people to El Salvador might wish to consider is that there may be countries that criminalize enforced disappearance AND have universal jurisdiction.

Could be relevant for future travel planning.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

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