CURE Campaign

Official X Account of CURE - Campaign to Uphold Rights in Europe. Advocating for a strong and effective Council of Europe

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Swift and intense reaction required by Council of Europe for the release of civic activist @MammadliAnar in @CoE member state #Azerbaijan. He is a well-known human rights lawyer, respected for his work monitoring elections and promoting democracy. He received the Vaclav Havel award of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly, @PACE_News, in 2014. Reaction should not be left to Assembly - also CoE leadership, Secr General @MarijaPBuric and Committee of Ministers led by @LIEatCoE, should act

[Rachel Denber @Rachel_Denber]

With all the scrutiny on Azerbaijan after round after round of arrests of journalists, civic activists, even as it prepares to host upcoming #COP29 , authorities detain prominent civic activist Anar Mammadli. A truly brazen move. He should be released immediately.

[Council of Europe Democracy @CoEDemocracy]

💡Interested in safeguarding Europe’s democratic security? Join the @coe Steering Committee on Democracy (CDDEM) public hearing on the latest Council of Europe list of democratic criteria: the Reykjavik Parameters for Democracy on 10 June.
More info🫴https://t.co/05J5p0ACYp

[Ali Yıldız @aliyildizlegal]

In a @coe member country, the main opposition has been decimated by the ruling party through politicised trials, yet neither @alain_berset nor @CommissionerHR has said a word. They are sleepwalking in full swing. @CURE_coe

[Commissioner for Human Rights @CommissionerHR]

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 @CIJ_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.
Dependency on fossil fuels threatens global stability. We are driving our planet to its breaking point and witnessing serious impacts on #HumanRights. Current conflicts only reinforce the urgent need to accelerate a just, orderly, and equitable transition to renewable energy that leaves no one behind.

🔹For more, read my Shout Out👇
https://t.co/a0J1sugg2h

#ClimateICJAO #ungaresolution

🔹Read the draft UNGA resolution👇
https://t.co/uUrJ0fs9uV

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

https://t.co/FwSIjSHIUm

[PACE @PACE_News]

Two years to the day after his detention, PACE's general rapporteur on political prisoners Azadeh Rojhan calls for the immediate release of Azerbaijani human rights defender Anar Mammadli.

Her full statement: https://t.co/bPSoZYEzzH

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Swift and intense reaction required by Council of Europe for the release of civic activist @MammadliAnar in @CoE member state #Azerbaijan. He is a well-known human rights lawyer, respected for his work monitoring elections and promoting democracy. He received the Vaclav Havel award of the CoE Parliamentary Assembly, @PACE_News, in 2014. Reaction should not be left to Assembly - also CoE leadership, Secr General @MarijaPBuric and Committee of Ministers led by @LIEatCoE, should act

[Rachel Denber @Rachel_Denber]

With all the scrutiny on Azerbaijan after round after round of arrests of journalists, civic activists, even as it prepares to host upcoming #COP29 , authorities detain prominent civic activist Anar Mammadli. A truly brazen move. He should be released immediately.

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Link to petition below, please sign and share!

https://t.co/icHEQKQtTi

[European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) @EHRAC_hq]

🔴 On 29 April 2024, Azerbaijani human rights defender Anar Mammadli was detained on trumped-up charges. He remains in pre-trial detention. His health is deteriorating.
🔴 With partners, we are challenging Anar’s detention as unlawful and politically motivated.

#humanrights

[PACE @PACE_News]

Two years to the day after his detention, PACE's general rapporteur on political prisoners Azadeh Rojhan calls for the immediate release of Azerbaijani human rights defender Anar Mammadli.

Her full statement: https://t.co/bPSoZYEzzH

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Report by eight human rights NGOs on deportation of journalist by #Georgia to #Azerbaijan in defiance of @ECHR_CEDH order. Four steps demanded from @coe Secretary General @alain_berset

[Campaign to End Repression Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 @EndRepressionAZ]

Georgia arrested a journalist on a fake charge at midnight, deported him to Azerbaijan, ignored a binding European Court order to protect him.

Eight organisations are demanding the Council of Europe acts. It's silence is threatening its credibility.

🔗 https://t.co/Ccv2yWBAK9

[Commissioner for Human Rights @CommissionerHR]

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://t.co/xgAEG5WRlw
#CivilSociety #Ukraine #DigitalGovernance #ChildPoverty #RomaRights

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Very much needed blog post by prof Alice Donald and @DrAndrewForde on the 'Chisinau process' of the @coe on the application of the Eur Convention on Human Rights to asylum seekers/migrants. They see serious problems when looking at whether the process is (1) law-based  rather than driven by political considerations, (2) factual and evidence-based, (3) firm on the principles of the universality of human rights and the @ECHR_CEDH's independence, and (4) transparent to the public, four criteria introduced by @CommissionerHR

https://t.co/5DiHzbffd5

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

"We must stop 'sleepwalking' into legal and ethical crises. We cannot just wait for the courts to tell us that what is being discussed is unlawful. It’s time to move toward human rights compliance by design, learning from what has failed elsewhere to build what can work here."

[Commissioner for Human Rights @CommissionerHR]

At @CEPS_thinktank IdeasLab’s panel on returns and externalisation, I explained how, while effective returns are necessary to maintain the integrity of the international protection system, states must fully adhere to international law. Particular care is necessary when states attempt to externalise return procedures. This is an area replete with human rights risks.
Based on global experience, I set out a few guardrails:
✅ Precaution: States must keep their eyes wide open to potential negative impacts on human rights, and act based on facts rather than false assumptions. The European Commission, as Guardian of the EU Treaties, has a key role to play in protecting asylum and other human rights.
✅ Transparency and accountability: Arrangements with partner countries must be treaty-based and publicly accessible—not informal handshakes.
✅ Human rights by design: Impact assessments, risk mitigation strategies and independent human rights monitoring must be hardwired into the system, not added as an afterthought.
✅ No responsibility shifting: States cannot abdicate their legal duty to honour the right to seek asylum through third-party arrangements.
✅ Avoid risk of refoulement: By ensuring adequate access to remedy, rather than rushed appeal processes with no suspensive effect.
✅ Respect the right to liberty: Locking people up is expensive, inefficient, and destroys the trust needed for successful policy. Alternatives to detention exist and should get priority.
✅ Refrain from transferring people to countries with which they have no connection, and from applying “safe country” concepts in ways that do not grant adequate value to individual circumstances.
We must stop 'sleepwalking' into legal and ethical crises. We cannot just wait for the courts to tell us that what is being discussed is unlawful. It’s time to move toward human rights compliance by design, learning from what has failed elsewhere to build what can work here.
#Migration #HumanRights #EUReturnsRegulation #RuleOfLaw #cepslab2026

[The CASE @CASECoalition]

🥁 The European SLAPP Contest is back for 2026!

🎭 Which legal bully or egregious gag lawsuit deserves to be named and shamed this year?

✨ Nominations are open now: https://t.co/wxevRcfllQ

👑 Winners will be crowned in Sofia, Bulgaria on 28 April.

[All Together in Dignity Europe @ATD_Europe]

Today, #SocialJusticeDay, is a good day to call on @coe Member States to strengthen and extend their commitments towards the #SocialJustice constitution of the European continent: the Revised #EuropeanSocialCharter. Ahead of the @MoldovaCoE High-level Conference on #SocialRights and the 30th anniversary of the adoption the Revised #SocialCharter, Governments should show to #CivilSociety that #SocialRightsMatter at a time when trust in #Democracy and #Ruleoflaw is at risk.

#SocialJustice #WorldDayofSocialJustice

@CoESocialRights @alain_berset @DSGBjornBerge @MichaelCJT @CommissionerHR @EUatCoE @paulgalles @PACE_Social @PetraBayr @PACE_News @CURE_coe @DeSchutterO @srpoverty @EAPNPoland @RSzarfenberg @anrurka @cingoeu @GErmischer @ico17president @ATDIntPresident @ESNsocial @social_platform @EAPNEurope @AmnestyEU @ennhri @EURightsAgency

[PACE @PACE_News]

Happy birthday to the European anthem!

Beethoven's "Ode to joy" was adopted by the @CoE #OnThisDay in 1972 - and was later taken up by the EU.

But did you know it actually started life in PACE? 🔽

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

... and there of course is a shared interest as well in international law as the backbone of peace and justice, in line with US observer status at @CoE, https://t.co/REUknKEd1r

Read the latest piece by SG @alain_berset on this matter, https://t.co/Hx9b90iPyc

[Ambassador Charles Kushner @USAmbFrance]

@strasbourg @USAStrasbourg Productive meeting with @alain_berset. We have a shared interest in ending the Russia-Ukraine war and a shared respect for @POTUS achievements to establish peace and end conflicts.

[Commissioner for Human Rights @CommissionerHR]

Protecting the European Convention on #HumanRights is a national duty. Speaking at Universitá Roma Tre, I outlined how states have to protect its integrity: ✅ Policy grounded in evidence ✅ Upholding non-refoulement & judicial independence ✅ Upholding the principles of equality and universality of rights. #ECHR
https://t.co/YwzPVDg3Dl

[Andrius Krivas @Andrius_Krivas]

Message by 🇱🇹PerRep to ⁦⁦⁦@coe⁩ : One year has passed since journalist Mzia Amaghlobeli’s arbitrary arrest in Georgia. Committed to safeguarding media freedom, we reiterate our call on Georgian authorities to release Mzia as well as others unjustly detained.

[CURE Campaign @CURE_coe]

Call to sign up for the 16 Jan event *Strengthening Democracy: From Words to Action*, an online discussion of civil society folks on the *New Democratic Pact for Europe* proposed by @CoE Secretary General @alain_berset. In which ways can this initiative contribute to the concrete strengthening of democracy?

Introductions by a number of expert speakers, followed by discussion.

A CURE memo identifying seven areas of interest is available, https://t.co/MzXdQqactW:
• use of @CoE democracy benchmarking schemes;
• follow-up of outcome of monitoring of elections;
• how to strengthen democratic culture and civic education;
• promotion of a sustainable independent public information space;
• the role of a vibrant civil society;
• equality of citizens as a precondition for democracy;
• how to counter democratic backsliding in an early stage.
In addition, an @EPDeu opinion piece taken from the latest CURE Newsletter provides input for the discussion, raising the question of the role of citizens in the creation of the Pact, https://t.co/swb5UgdoDq

Join us online on 16 January 2026, 10am-12pm CET. Registration is open until 12 January 2026, https://t.co/hUNwenna1t