Christian Binder

journalist

[Center for Truth and Justice @CFTJustice]

“Impunity has consequences that extend beyond individual victims. It sends a message to governments around the world that they can commit atrocities without consequences. Justice breeds justice, but impunity breeds impunity.”

Thomas Becker uses the atrocities committed by the Azerbaijani government against the Armenian people of Artsakh, including the forced displacement of more than 120,000 Armenians from their ancestral homeland in September 2023, as an example of the wider problem of impunity and the need for accountability.

Thomas is the Legal and Policy Director at the University Network for Human Rights. He has spent nearly two decades working on human rights issues and pursuing accountability for grave violations around the world.

He was a lead attorney in Mamani v. Sánchez de Lozada, the first successful human rights lawsuit in the United States against a living former head of state. He also contributed to legal efforts that held seven government officials accountable for genocide before Bolivia's Supreme Court.

His human rights work spans multiple regions and issues, including documenting war crimes in Lebanon and Nagorno-Karabakh, examining land rights in Palestine and South Africa, investigating torture and extrajudicial killings in India and Western Sahara, and exposing death squads in Honduras and Colombia. He also teaches human rights at Columbia Law School.

Thomas Becker will join us as a speaker at CFTJ’s 5th Annual International Conference, “Voices Against Erasure: Victims of Atrocity Crimes in an Age of Impunity,” taking place November 13–14, 2026, in Yerevan, Armenia.

His remarks reflect a central theme of this year's conference: the urgent need to confront impunity and ensure that perpetrators of atrocity crimes are held accountable.

Registration is free. Join us in Yerevan tomorrow. 
https://t.co/kfiwLLKZ4K

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

Good morning world

Nothing much this time. Just Israel bombing Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza overnight, killing at least 6 Palestinians, including a doctor, and injuring dozens more, most of them patients.

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Melania Trump's approach to war-ending diplomacy is the real deal: people-centered diplomacy, looking at war and peace through the eyes of ordinary people and restoring their security, dignity and well-being. The sturdiest peace deals are built this way.

https://t.co/MSpbPxvcE8

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

In case anyone still had doubts on whose side tech markets are on, here you go: dramatic Nasdaq selloff in response to a landslide for economic populism.

Democrats should learn from FDR instead of caving because democracy is at stake:
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.” (1933)

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Another leading Ukrainian dissident has spoken at the European Parliament about Ukrainians' anti-war attitudes and desire for peace, and this time there has been no scandal (yet 😉). Watch @Volod_Ishchenko's short, powerful presentation!

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

We need an ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS which puts a floor under people's livelihoods and a ceiling on the extreme concentration of power and wealth.

🔗 Today I am launching my new YouTube channel: https://t.co/7aEBskRbTj

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

This could not be a better choice at a time of repeated attacks against international justice. She is a former ICC judge at a time when the US administration is seekinng to destroy the ICC. She has headed the commission of Inquiry which found that Israel commited the crime of genocide at the time when many States are trying to defend and protect Israel’s actions. She has defended human rights, at a time when States are seeking to hollow out their rights commitments. She fought against apartheid institutionalized and systemic racism at a time when we are facing a resurgence of it. There is no better choice than Navi Pillay.

[Christian Binder @binderch]

no self-respect detected

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte

"You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

[Christian Binder @binderch]

"stop pretending that digital sovereignty has anything to do with "national AI." If Trump takes away your AI, everything's fine. If Trump takes away your iPhones, Office 365, tractors, your country grinds to a halt."
https://t.co/5vxa4ia4P0

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“I have never in my quarter of a century in journalism seen a greater effort to criminalize and demonize speaking to people on the other side of America’s wars.”

—Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill spoke to Progressive International’s @VarshaGandikota about Drop Site News being labeled “pro-terrorism” for interviewing Palestinian and Iranian figures. He said that in any society that professes to be democratic, a public has the right to understand the other side of things.

[Viktória Serdült @viktoriaserdult]

This is it. Orban admits defeat in speech! Peter Magyar wins elections in Hungary

[Christian Binder @binderch]

"Die SVP will nicht weniger Ausländer:innen – sie will Arbeitskräfte ohne Rechte."
https://t.co/Nlxv1MeQXL

[Christian Binder @binderch]

anti-war protest in Bucharest last Saturday

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Reminder that @DropSiteNews is not just well sourced around the world, but also in this White House. On the left is Drop Site in February, on the right is the New York Times today:

[Christian Binder @binderch]

“We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong,” he said, even as he said “discussions were ongoing”.

https://t.co/MD6cokMqid

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a crime against humanity, admitted in public. You cannot kill journalists for reporting or for contacting sources.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

This goes beyond regime collapse and chaos to state collapse.

[Beatrice Fihn @BeaFihn]

Waste of money on a weapon you can’t use and that don’t really deter that much because your enemy also knows you cant use it.

[Christian Binder @binderch]

🤯

[African News feed. @africansinnews]

Egyptian transgender Youssef Morsi set fire to a Ukrainian drone factory in the Czech Republic because of the factory's connections to the Zionist colonial state of Israel.

[Christian Binder @binderch]

This is great!
"All quiet on the western front because everyone has deserted and they're doing something else instead." by Bea Bordanove
https://t.co/bLEgwzzW4m