Notes from the Faultline
We live along faultlines: places where rights, power, and principles collide.
Some cracks are loud. Others are quiet. All of them shape the world we live in.
These are our Notes from the Faultine.
- Reposted by Notes from the Faultline2025 may be seen as a tipping point for global human rights. With the US undermining the global human rights system, who will rise in its defense? #Rights2026 Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights. Read more: bit.ly/4aagjDl
- Welcoming this @ilgaeurope.bsky.social analysis linking LGBTQ organising with the wider engagement to protect democracy and freedoms 🏳️🌈⚖️ Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️ www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...
- Positive news ❤️ But these are the kind of headlines we shouldn’t have to read and pictures we shouldn’t have to see in this context ⚡️ #StopICE
- #OnThisDay February 1, 1947, the newly established UN Commission on Human Rights created a special drafting committee to write the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, this committee drafted the document that sets out universal human rights.
- Human rights lawyer Onesmo Olegurumwa would be first Tanzanian national to become United Nations special rapporteur, were he selected to succeed @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social. #StayTuned 🇹🇿💪🇺🇳
- #OnThisDay February 1, 1960: four students from North Carolina A&T State University sat at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro. They stayed; and sit-ins spread across the South. Courage is contagious, and change can start with taking a stand ✊🏾
- After joining Board of Peace, with reports of a $1bn buy-in, Azerbaijan is already diverging from Donald Trump on Iran protests 🇦🇿🇺🇸 Baku wants calm next door; it would not want people in Azerbaijan inspired by brave Iranians protesting repression ⚡️
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- NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...
- If Azerbaijan wants a seat on Trump’s “Board of Peace”, it should stop jailing peace activists and release Bahruz Samadov 🕊️⚡️🇦🇿
- Peace activist, PhD candidate Bahruz Samadov to be moved to the high-security Umbaki prison 🇦🇿 He should not be transferred. He should not be in prison. He asked internationals to attend the hearing ⚠️ 📆 29 January 2026 📍 Baku Court of Appeal ➡️ free-anar.site/political-pr...
- If Trump tries to “make peace” the way he handles everything else, we are in deep trouble 🌍⚡️
- Accountability for police violence matters everywhere. ICE in Minneapolis too⚡️ Julia Gegenheimer on what a proper investigation looks like @justsecurity.org Secure scene. Preserve evidence 📸 Facts first. No hindsight 🔎 Independent review. Protect witnesses ⚖️ 🔗 www.justsecurity.org/129654/inves...
- Today is Holocaust Memory Day. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — as a day to honor the victims of the Holocaust and promote human rights education. Never forget. #Holocaust #Shoah
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- The Club of Autocrats continues to grow 🕊️⚡️⚖️ Trump 🇺🇸 Putin 🇷🇺 Aliyev 🇦🇿 Al Sisi 🇪🇬 Bin Zayed 🇦🇪 Lukashenko 🇧🇾 Milei 🇦🇷 Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿 Netanyahu 🇮🇱 Orbán 🇭🇺
- Obama left power nine years ago, today. This 2016 poster feels like a postcard from another era 🇺🇸 He did not fix everything. But he understood that civic space is part of democracy, not a threat. And he was decent. Another era. @barackobama.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social
- Trump is pushing the Europe-US alliance towards a precipice, The New York Times writes this morning 🇪🇺⚡️🇺🇸 Is that what Americans want? If not, Congress should put country, and the world, before party and act. Now.
- Trump has now invited Alexander Lukashenko to join the Board of Peace 🇧🇾 An illegitimate ruler, in power for three decades. Responsible for systemic repression, torture, mass imprisonment and forced exile. Trump's Club of Autocrats is slowly coming together ⚡️
- #WEF2026: A new low for @weforum.org⚡️ 🇮🇷 Quiet bid to bring Iran’s foreign minister to Davos (under the radar) 🌍 Few senior leaders beyond the usual capitals 🇺🇸 Denmark pulls out as Trump politics sets the tone We need real dialogue, not pay-to-play.
- What does Trump really want with the “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place”? A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation. Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️
- About Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place:” Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵 Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰 Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴 Trump to appoint his successor 😵💫
- More about Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place.” 🌍⚡️⤵️
- No other comment needed 🇬🇪⚡️⤵️
- #Gaza transition: what President Trump called “the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place” ⚡️⤵️
- In historic speech to mark UN’s 80th anniversary, Secretary-General makes impassioned plea for multilateralism and international law, via @theguardian.com 🇺🇳⚡️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- The whole of Europe’s far-right shows support to Viktor Orbán 🇭🇺⚡️ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- And now Iceland… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Today Delcy Rodríguez meets Donald Trump in Washington, DC 🇻🇪⚡️🇺🇸 The question is whether the regime changed in Venezuela or in the United States. We fear the latter.
- Reposted by Notes from the FaultlineJust the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.
- More candidates should enter the race for UN Secretary-General, @unpga.bsky.social says 🇺🇳 The world needs leadership grounded in lived experience: a woman who faced conflict, managed transition, and rebuilt after chaos. 👀 Look to Eastern Europe. No shortage of women with that experience 💪
- Threat to human rights protections ⚡️ Several governments are pushing to narrow how the Convention is applied in migration cases, with the Council of Europe leadership's complacency. ➡️ Ahead of @coe.int's conference on democratic renewal, @passblue.bsky.social's piece: passblue.com/2026/01/13/m...
- #IranProtests 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed 💔 Even the worst of the regime’s repressive methods can’t stop the people anymore. Iran needs the regime’s resignation and a peaceful transition. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ira...
- Reposted by Notes from the Faultline🧵As #Uganda heads into elections, safeguarding civic space is essential. Free and fair elections require an environment where civil society can operate independently, monitor developments, and support public participation. ICNL’s 2024 analysis offers a timely reminder: www.icnl.org/post/report/...
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- NEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
- Global Realignment: Europe cannot afford hesitation 🇪🇺⚡️ If the EU wants to matter geopolitically, it must lead with clarity and principles; on Ukraine, Iran, and the defence of the multilateral order. Economic weight without political courage isn't enough. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Mass killings. Rape. Arson. “Genocidal acts” against the Muslim Rohingya minority by Myanmar’s military must not be ignored ⚡️ Public hearings have now started at the International Court of Justice. 👀 Stay tuned
- At least 192 peaceful protesters killed in Iran. Protests continue despite repression 🇮🇷⚡️ Across the world, people show solidarity ✊ Meanwhile, Ayatollah Khamenei and President Trump trade insults.
- As wars multiply and multilateralism is under strain, the UN faces a defining test @theobserveruk.bsky.social 🇺🇳⚡️ Diplomats warn about the risk of choosing a new Secretary-General to manage decline rather than lead. 🔗 observer.co.uk/news/interna...
- Venezuela didn’t regain dignity through force 🇻🇪⚡️ US removed one man, not the repressive system; repressions intensifies, political prisoners remain jailed, and narco charges against Maduro won’t deliver human rights accountability. ➡️ @globalr2p.org analysis www.globalr2p.org/publications...
- Courage 💪
- “A philosophy professor who is not allowed to teach Plato?” Conservatives across the US are jeopardising academic freedoms ⚡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...
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- We keep going. We hold the line.
