Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights.
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@Die_Gruenen@europeangreens Because human rights belong to everyone, we monitor the attempts to capture rights. The way some on the left capture anti-racism and anti-colonialism to advance antisemitism will not go unoticed here.
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The Green Party of England and Wales adopted a motion that declares Zionism a form of racism. The text draws on the vocabulary of anti-racism, decolonisation and equality ⬛️
We analysed that vocabulary against the intention: the motion abuses rights to legitimise antisemitism ⤵️
➡️ Bolsonaro's campaign abuses the words of human rights and empties them of meaning: rights for allies, abuse for critics 🇧🇷
We documented 21 cases throughout the presidential campaign: original source and what the instrument actually requires ⬛️
Flávio Bolsonaro won Brazil's first round, promising to ‘resgatar a democracia’, rescue democracy 🇧🇷
His campaign uses the word democracy to defend his father, jailed for plotting to overturn the 2022 election ⬛️
Here is how the campaign takes over the language of rights ⤵️
To capture rights, China and Russia are hollowing the UN's human rights system ⬛️
Countries with experience in silencing independent institutions at home are now following the same playbook at the United Nations, targeting @UNHumanRights.
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Official account of the Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Hungary.
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4K Followers 986 FollowingWe post from the faultlines: where human rights, power, and principles collide ⚡️ We track the loud cracks and the quiet shifts, and what they mean.
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