🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
The military authorities in Burkina Faso should immediately end their repression of independent voices and humanitarian and human rights groups and uphold fundamental rights and freedoms.
New from @hrw.org ⤵️
“It is the era of lawlessness.”
In an exclusive interview with The New Arab, Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, called out the US and Israel as leading a “predatory world order” in which the rule of law ceases to exist.
So it's out.
@ec.europa.eu Jozef Sikela made 0 reference to 2023 conclusions that made end of conflicts & accountability key conditions for resumption of EU support.
Sikela to #Ethiopia: ignore #EU expectation, you still get its money.
international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu/news-and-eve...
🚨Important new research by @nrc-global.bsky.social puts a spotlight on at least 16 cases of conflict-related sexual violence attributed to Israeli settlers and soldiers.
The cases fit a broader pattern of sexualised harassment, intimidation and humiliation, much of which remains underreported ⤵️
Across the African continent, wars and humanitarian crises are killing civilians, displacing millions and eroding already fragile institutions.
These are not “forgotten crises.”
They are crises the world has repeatedly chosen not to act on.
Changing that choice is the real challenge.
"Though cluster munitions and antipersonnel mines are still used by a small minority of countries — often in a manner that violates the laws of war — the rationale for banning them is clear."
If you want to know why governments are so reluctant to rein in the abuse of spyware, read this interesting article by #LenaRiecke www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Spyware abuse is not a tech-nerd issue: it is aimed at eliminating checks and balances. It destroys democracy, that affects us all
The US government’s World Cup task force has promised a safe and welcoming 2026 World Cup🏆
But in this commentary, Robbie Newton of @hrw.org argues that without enforceable safeguards, fans risk discrimination, arbitrary treatment, and unequal access.
👉 www.playthegame.org/news/promise...
UPDATE: France has finally granted a visa to Al-Haq's Shawan Jabarin.
A reminder to continue to raise our voices for human rights defenders and free speech!
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival.
The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.
"The French authorities, who host European institutions that work to promote human rights, have a responsibility to facilitate that work, and should not be frustrating it by denying access to human rights defenders.”
- @benjeannerod.bsky.social, France director @hrw.org
"It is particularly shocking at a time when Palestinian civil society organizations are facing the combined disastrous effects of the Israeli authorities’ attempts to marginalize and destroy them and US sanctions."
“The French authorities’ shameful decision prevented one of the most prominent human rights defenders in Palestine from appearing in person before the European Parliament."
This is Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al-Haq, one of the leading and oldest Palestinian human rights organizations, based in the occupied West Bank.
France has, again, refused him an entry visa.
A shameful and shocking decision, says @hrw.org.
Read more⤵️
www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
As global attention to the Xi Jinping regime's crimes against humanity in Xinjiang fades, some may begin to believe that things are returning to “normal”.
This is simply wrong.
@yalkun.bsky.social is often asked what real normality would look like. Read his answer here ⤵️
Herbebossing voor CO₂-handel botst met landrechten in Sierra Leone. ‘Ik denk dat we niet eerlijk behandeld zijn’
Lelietelers weigeren informatie te geven aan de overheid over hun percelen en zijn nu “verbijsterd” dat de provincie met een dwangsom komt. Maar deze houding van de sector is wel het gevolg van jarenlang wegkijken van overheden van rampzalige gevolgen van zeer schadelijke en ongeremde sierteelt
We all know what is going on.
‘Maar dan valt het oog van het kind op de handtekening onderaan de brief. Ze snuift andermaal en zegt: ‘Schieten, sure, maar voor die?’’
@sheilas.bsky.social over de dienstplichtbrief van Defensie.
www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Olympic deception: Russia’s doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny
The Insider exposes the FSB directorate that handles both athletic doping and political assassinations.
theins.press/en/inv/291614
French President Emmanuel Macron says a French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
Volgtip, met dank aan de @detaalstaat.bsky.social : @dixitspinvis.bsky.social ⤵️
“The Israeli military’s systematic and repeated attacks on bridges, which threaten to isolate civilians in southern Lebanon from access to means of survival, demonstrate a callous disregard for the welfare of the tens of thousands of people still living there.”
- @ramzikaiss.bsky.social / @hrw.org
I've also added a new entry for Congo to the Third-Country Removal Tracker. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
ICYMI: I first reported last night on the arrival of a third-country removal ICE flight to the DRC. Story is now updated with new info on the passengers and comment from @yaelschacher.bsky.social at @refugeesinternational.org.
gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...
The Indian government should immediately withdraw rules that would allow greater executive control over online content and further undermine privacy in the country. New from @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
During the time of the Israeli military’s attack on Qasmieh bridge, the bridge was the main access point for civilians in southern Lebanon to food and other humanitarian aid. Governments should signal to Israel that they will not risk complicity in war crimes by immediately suspending arms sales.
