Hans Born

In 2000, DCAF is Born. ;)
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Thanks for sharing @florianirminger.ch

01.11.2025 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What happened to Sparta?

18.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Op ed: US Retreat from Multilateralism: Open Doors for Chinese Repression - The Foreign Policy Centre The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), opening on Tuesday 9 September 2025 in New York, might mark the end of the UN’s human rights pillar as we know it.   The United Nations ...

#UNGA80 opens as China fills the void left by the US
Rewriting norms, choking civil society, escaping accountability 🚨

The UN is being reshaped from within — the UK and Europe must respond.

✍️ My piece for @fpcthinktank.bsky.social
🔗 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...

09.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A large crowd of protesters gathers outside the illuminated Georgian Parliament building in Tbilisi at dusk. Three flags—European Union, Georgia, and Ukraine—are prominently raised in the foreground, waving above the crowd. Many demonstrators hold signs, including one that reads "We are Europe." The mood is defiant and hopeful. Photo taken on 5 March 2025 by Vano Shlamov for AFP/Getty Images.

Civil society in Georgia is under attack 🇬🇪🚨

🚔 Crackdowns
⚖️ Arbitrary arrests
💳 Frozen bank accounts.

As civil society leader Ucha Nanuashvili writes, @coe.int must act now to defend human rights rights and democracy, and their defenders.

🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/j...

31.08.2025 10:17 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Smart pilot. The takeaway is to take paper maps with you when travelling by car, preferably from Michelin

01.09.2025 17:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As President Trump is departing the White House to meet President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska (USA), I'd recommend you take a minute to read this civil society appeal published in @lemonde.fr (available in English and French).

➡️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

15.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trump in a beige v-neck merino sweater and beige chinos.

Donald Trump Jr. wearing a USA flag sport coat. The jacket tag has been left on the sleeve.

Brendan Carr and Benny Johnson. Both wearing blue suits with tan shoes. Carr's suit is mid-blue. He has paired it with blonde shoes. Johnson is wearing a navy suit with walnut colored shoes.

Matt Braynard wearing a navy suit with a white French cuff shirt and gold colored tie. He has a giant Windsor knot and a metal sports watch.

Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC:

— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

11.08.2025 19:09 — 👍 4495    🔁 644    💬 173    📌 55

Bedankt voor het delen! Het gebruik van telegramkanaal draagt ook bij aan publieke verantwoording van de HUR. Interessant stuk!

10.08.2025 17:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Derk Sauer, western media magnate in Russia, dies aged 72 [FREE TO READ] Dutch editor founded The Moscow Times and Russian editions of magazines including Cosmopolitan and Playboy

My obituary of
@Derksauer
, the Dutchman who fell for Russia and became a Moscow media magnate, one of the handful of most impressive people I've met in my life on.ft.com/3IRbJ3c

03.08.2025 13:39 — 👍 50    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Ever more Ukrainian women are joining the army A growing group that is changing society

“… “killing” implies murder, which would be wrong, says Titan; she prefers to call her job “liquidating Russians”. The unit is one of a small but growing number of all-female drone crews. Genitals are irrelevant to flying drones, notes Maria Berlinska” www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

03.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 308    🔁 66    💬 10    📌 5

Only 18% of all SDGs are on track, with goal Peaceful, Just and Inclusive societies one of the goals furtherest behind. Of course , the SDGs were adopted in another time around 2015, and since then multilateralism has eroded and conflict and war increased.

unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/...

03.08.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Derk Sauer, Champion of Free Press in a New Russia, Dies at 72

R.I.P. Derk Sauer, champion of free media in Russia. He was and is a symbol of what Russia could have been, if it would have followed his path.

@pjotrsauer.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/w...

03.08.2025 08:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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13.07.2025 10:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honoured to host our 🇳🇱National Ombudsman in Geneva. He stands up for citizens, speaks out about injustice in society.

With our partners DCAF, UNHCR, IOM, OHCHR, he discussed #migration governance in the Netherlands and Europe, and his oversight role in this field.
Useful to share data & insights.

11.07.2025 06:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

EP Annual Report Human Rights and Democracy 2024 | Hans Born Good Governance of the Security Sector: 5 Key Lessons from the EU’s 2024 Human Rights Report On Wednesday 2 April, the European Parliament adopted its 2024 annual report on human rights and democracy...

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05.04.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or this one...
Good to see you here. Just opened an account.

16.11.2024 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0