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We'd like to think rights are inviolable, but they are fragile and borne of stability and surplus. When those are threatened, people get more casual with what they'll do for others.
Also, the very notion of annual meetings has an inappropriate stability baked in. Climate is accelerating, which means the pace of its wrath is not synchronized to budget cycles or the Earth's leisurely path around the sun.
At this point, the very notion of an annual meeting about climate is a statement of denial. It is essential to meet as often and for as long as is needed to get serious action. It may be uncomfortable for representatives to ask there host nation or company for resources or calendar time, itself the most precious resource, but if those entities are not up to feeling uncomfortable in service of something larger, then THAT is the key obstacle and the smoking gun of denialism.
Climate change should be making us uncomfortable. It promises much worse than that, and soon. Discomfort helps to set priorities properly. Smoothing over discomfort admits the acceptability of status quo priorities.
Ask for semi-annual meetings or the right to variable lengths of time to get real points across and obtain serious commitment.
Survival of the species is on the line, and too many places in the world are hierarchically arranged so that that will be managed by herd thinning in vain hope that's enough to let our most affluent survive at the expense of others. In other words, kindness and human rights will be the first casualties of a society structured to preserve its sociopathic leaders at all costs.
And, saddest of all, when the rest are gone, the sociopaths will realize they haven't the skill to do much of anything necessary even for survival, and then they will be gone, too. If I thought we were focused on preserving at least our kindest, or smartest, or hardest working people, I might have hope in this regard. But the ones with the bunkers are none of these things, nor will they be able to keep those bunkers in working order long enough for the planet to recover and humanity to thrive again.
#climate #ClimateDenial #HumanRights #AnnualMeeting #AnnualMeetings #collapse #extinction #budgets #civilization #civilisation #society #discomfort #surplus #stability
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@commissionerHR Reg's scale. So teaching children at early developmental stages, the critical function of prioritizing values, makes for far more malleable adults.
As it stands now; keeping insanity under 2% is near impossible without an education revolution.
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#UK: @CommissionerHR calls for steps to protect #journalists in the light of continuing threats against them. @Dunja_Mijatovic underlines that there can be no #impunity for the murders of journalists, recalling the cases of #MartinOHagan and #LyraMcKee.
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#UK: @CommissionerHR calls for steps to protect #journalists in the light of continuing threats against them. @Dunja_Mijatovic underlines that there can be no #impunity for the murders of journalists, recalling the cases of #MartinOHagan and #LyraMcKee.
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#UK: @CommissionerHR calls for steps to protect #journalists in the light of continuing threats against them. @Dunja_Mijatovic underlines that there can be no #impunity for the murders of journalists, recalling the cases of #MartinOHagan and #LyraMcKee.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/israel-death-penalty-law-rights-body-council-of-europe. It should - it MUST, @commissionerHR. #Israel doesn't deserve even "observer" #status on the #COE #parliamentary #assembly given its #discriminatory #deathpenalty #law aimed at #Palestinians. This is a flagrant #violation of #HumanRights, @humanrightswatch.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/01/prominent-uk-pro-palestine-activists-guilty-of-breaching-protest-conditions. What was left of #civil #liberties in the #UK just died, @andrewstroehlein, @humanrightswatch, @commissionerHR. "[Jeremy] #Corbyn... [said]: 'I’m absolutely appalled, disgusted, that they’ve been found guilty of doing no more than standing up for the #rights of the #Palestinian people, & very importantly, the #right to #protest within our #society.'"
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Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
Looking back at April, I am struck by a recurring sentiment: we are standing at a pivotal crossroads in history - a change of era. This requires us to act decisively to save the treasure of human rights law that we risk losing.
Tomorrow at the Meeting of #CouncilOfEurope Foreign Affairs Ministers in Chișinău, our leaders have a very important opportunity to reaffirm core values.
Read my newsletter for April 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ULWwMP5viyXzHaj80c6veA -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We're just 2 days away from the @coe Ministerial gathering in Chișinău. This will be a very important opportunity for our member states to reaffirm core values:
🔹defend the universality of human rights,
🔹protect the independence of the European Court of #HumanRights #ECHR
🔹stand up for the human rights of the people of #Ukraine, insisting that people, their dignity and human rights, are embedded in every effort towards peace. -
We have the legal blueprints. We have the science. Now, we need the political will to protect our planet and our human rights as one mission.
Read my Shout Out 👉 https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/climate-action-and-accountability-for-survival
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𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐀 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝. We must translate the 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion into concrete, multilateral action.
𝐖𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 to protect our planet and our human rights as one mission.
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Presenting my #AnnualReport2025 to the the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, I warn that we risk losing our invaluable treasure of #HumanRights. In part, their survival depends on how we support #Ukraine 's people, manage migration, and protect civil society & marginalised groups👇
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/in-the-midst-of-a-change-of-era-council-of-europe-commissioner-urges-action-to-reclaim-the-treasure-of-human-rights-that-we-risk-losing
#AI #Equality #RomaRights #Climate @coe -
For insight into the stories of resilience of Roma and Traveller communities and the women driving change, I invite you to read my book THE UNHEARD 12 MILLION
Read in English 👉https://go.coe.int/IaNC0
Read in French 👉https://go.coe.int/0LkIL
#RomaWeek2026 #OpreRoma #RomaRights #RomaEU -
Standing up for Europe’s Roma &Travellers must remain at the heart of EU policy, planning, and budgeting. This requires political leadership matched by adequate resources.
Read my #RomaWeek2026 #EUMFF event speech 👇
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/political-leadership-adequate-resources-implementing-a-human-rights-approach-for-europe-s-roma-and-travellers
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On #InternationalRomaDay, and every day, we must stand with Roma and Travellers across Europe, honouring their rich cultures and contributions. This day is also a call to action against racism, poverty, exclusion; to invest in equality, and work with communities. Their narratives - reclaimed with pride and anchored in dignity and #equalrights - must be respected. #RomaRights
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At the 2026 #OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum today in Paris, discussing what truly signals "trust" to investors & companies.
Anti-corruption efforts and human rights due diligence should be better aligned.
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Pleased to welcome the heads of key institutions from the Netherlands: the Vice-President of the Council of State, the National Ombudsman, and the President of the Court of Auditors. We exchanged on important human rights developments in the Netherlands and Europe, including challenges to the #ECHR system.
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It is in our cooperation and complementarity that we can be effective in confronting the vast challenges for human rights, democracy and rule of law.
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I call on National Human Rights Institutions and Ombudspersons to be ambassadors for the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Court of Human Rights: assist your governments to ensure that the political declaration expected in May will not do harm and, at best, will constitute a timely affirmation of the importance of the Convention and of the work of the Court.
Read my speech at
#CouncilOfEurope ON Forum👇
https://coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/on-forum-commissioner-o-flaherty-calls-on-nhris-and-ombudspersons-to-be-national-ambassadors-for-the-convention-and-the-court#NHRIs #ECHR #HumanRights
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Constructive meeting with Liam Herrick, Chief Commissioner of IHREC, on the human rights situation in Ireland and the ongoing debate on the European Convention on Human Rights system. #ECHR #HumanRights
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In these tumultuous times, my focus is twofold: strengthening international ties from Brussels to Geneva and ensuring @coe states recommit to human rights as the bedrock of the emerging global order.
From digital governance to protecting civil society and supporting Ukraine's peace process and recovery, read my February News Roundup for a deep dive into my recent work. 👇
https://nl.commissioner.coe.int/nl3/ozQgS3Ug35RCdf7m5_tUfQ
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We can’t wait for quieter times. Climate change is a multiplier of instability & suffering in Europe and globally. International and regional courts have provided legal blueprints, States must now act. I call on #CouncilOfEurope states to lead by example & support initiatives for climate action.
Read my Shout Out👇
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/climate-action-and-accountability-for-survival