Rights Capture Monitor

Documenting and exposing the capture of human rights by actors pursuing agendas that run counter to those rights.

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We’re facing the capture by malign actors of the human rights language and system ⬛️

Trump’s capture of the Kennedy Center is part of it: a will to capture liberal arts and the public’s appreciation for it.

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We have documented 19 cases across the 2025 election programme, state programmes, party releases and leaders' statements: original German, source, and what the instrument actually requires.

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Saxony-Anhalt, 6 September: AfD 43.8%, just short of a majority. BSW 5.3%, now in talks with the AfD.

A route to the first post-war far-right government in Germany runs through the BSW.

BSW, party of reason and justice? Reality is different ⬛️⤵️

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The BSW presented itself as an answer to the AfD. It now offers it parliamentary cooperation, calls the ban procedure a road to dictatorship and the firewall a failure.

It has not rejected human rights. It has kept the words and cut them loose from dignity.

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President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes.

He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️

Worth a thread 🧵⤵️

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[İlham Əliyev @azpresident]

Avropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır.

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Azerbaijan is worth watching for what it makes explicit: what Aliyev says on camera, other regimes do out of sight.

➡️ We will be monitoring precisely how these regimes capture rights to advance their control domestically and delegitimise international accountability.

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➡️ We logged eighteen of examples of the way Vice President JD Vance uses human rights language to abuse human rights since January 2025.

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JD Vance closed the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September ⬛️

He did not say the words human rights once.

He still built a rights claim, from first line to last. That is what capture looks like now ⤵️

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The closing lines capture best how JD Vances abuses human rights language ⬛️

Every American deserves the sacred inheritance 🇺🇸

Then, at once: America belongs to those who love it, not those who hate it. Dissidence isn't allowed anymore, obedience is expected.