Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
www.amnesty.org
May 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
kleptocratic pornographic racist nihilism, you can ban it
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
May 31, 2026 at 12:31 PM
kleptocratic pornographic racist nihilism, you can ban it
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Tearing my hair out at academic materials on IHRL which claim to be discussing sexual orientation and gender identity but then exclusively refer to examples of sexual orientation. Don't purport to include gender identity if you're not going to do it properly!
May 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Tearing my hair out at academic materials on IHRL which claim to be discussing sexual orientation and gender identity but then exclusively refer to examples of sexual orientation. Don't purport to include gender identity if you're not going to do it properly!
this is one of the most insane fucking things i have ever read
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
www.amnesty.org
May 31, 2026 at 10:50 PM
this is one of the most insane fucking things i have ever read
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
The EHRC is not a human rights defender organisation, it's a policy led QUANGO run by the British government to rights-wash its existing policy goals and dispose of its responsibilities under IHRL.
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The EHRC is not a human rights defender organisation, it's a policy led QUANGO run by the British government to rights-wash its existing policy goals and dispose of its responsibilities under IHRL.
@amnesty.org very based:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty InternationalUnlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
www.amnesty.org
June 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
@amnesty.org very based:
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems."
A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy:
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Strikes
The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under IHRL is to refrain from sharing intelligence that enables them.
www.justsecurity.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A counterproductive and unlawful U.S. policy:
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
Several States have now curtailed counter-narcotics intelligence support and/or called out U.S. boat strikes as illegal:
Canada
Colombia
EU
France
Mexico
Netherlands?
UK
We discuss their legal obligations that forbid support for boat strikes.
go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
Keir Starmer was once a distinguished human rights lawyer who wrote texts on the European Convention on Human Rights. That Starmer would be appalled by this Prime Minister trying to replace the independence of the courts with government approved 'reinterpretation' of IHRL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration
The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.
www.bbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Keir Starmer was once a distinguished human rights lawyer who wrote texts on the European Convention on Human Rights. That Starmer would be appalled by this Prime Minister trying to replace the independence of the courts with government approved 'reinterpretation' of IHRL
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
We're dealing with an aspirational theocratic ethno state which feels selfrighteous about completely thrashing IHRL and the Geneva convention and perversely smug about murdering more than 70.000 Palestinian civilians.
We're not dealing with normal people here.
We're not dealing with normal people here.
July 19, 2026 at 10:41 PM
We're dealing with an aspirational theocratic ethno state which feels selfrighteous about completely thrashing IHRL and the Geneva convention and perversely smug about murdering more than 70.000 Palestinian civilians.
We're not dealing with normal people here.
We're not dealing with normal people here.
Here, however, his inexplicable acceptance of that absurd idea caused him not only to engage in that first patently unlawful strike--which violates murder statutes, IHRL, and longstanding DOD norms--but also to leave him helplessly at sea (sorry) in deciding whether to take the second strike. [4]
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Here, however, his inexplicable acceptance of that absurd idea caused him not only to engage in that first patently unlawful strike--which violates murder statutes, IHRL, and longstanding DOD norms--but also to leave him helplessly at sea (sorry) in deciding whether to take the second strike. [4]
(in reality, having a functioning independent national human rights institute that positively engages with civil society human rights organisations is just part of a requirement by the United Nations as part of obligations the UK agreed to around IHRL)
March 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
(in reality, having a functioning independent national human rights institute that positively engages with civil society human rights organisations is just part of a requirement by the United Nations as part of obligations the UK agreed to around IHRL)
Britain didn't used to have many political goals around human rights law, but it's become something the UK is increasingly actively antipathetic about following 2010 with austerity, covid, increasingly violent migration discourse, Gaza, all of which IHRL mandates the uk to bite bullets for.
June 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Britain didn't used to have many political goals around human rights law, but it's become something the UK is increasingly actively antipathetic about following 2010 with austerity, covid, increasingly violent migration discourse, Gaza, all of which IHRL mandates the uk to bite bullets for.
When your cat is a lawyer standing on a pile of ICL / IHRL books
May 10, 2026 at 6:33 AM
When your cat is a lawyer standing on a pile of ICL / IHRL books
1. Analogizing Gaza to *Imperial Japan* is insane.
2. Israel isn’t allowed to fight total war against a non-state with no army that it effectively controls.
3. Modern IHRL was largely developed post-WW2 in reaction to Dresden, Tokyo, A-bombs, etc. WW2 is nobody’s gold standard wrt civilian death.
2. Israel isn’t allowed to fight total war against a non-state with no army that it effectively controls.
3. Modern IHRL was largely developed post-WW2 in reaction to Dresden, Tokyo, A-bombs, etc. WW2 is nobody’s gold standard wrt civilian death.
July 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
1. Analogizing Gaza to *Imperial Japan* is insane.
2. Israel isn’t allowed to fight total war against a non-state with no army that it effectively controls.
3. Modern IHRL was largely developed post-WW2 in reaction to Dresden, Tokyo, A-bombs, etc. WW2 is nobody’s gold standard wrt civilian death.
2. Israel isn’t allowed to fight total war against a non-state with no army that it effectively controls.
3. Modern IHRL was largely developed post-WW2 in reaction to Dresden, Tokyo, A-bombs, etc. WW2 is nobody’s gold standard wrt civilian death.
On a national interest level, it's increasingly more profitable for the UK as a nation state to say "fuck disabled people, intern migrants in camps abroad, maximise arms trade sales to Saudi and Israel".
Trans people are a useful argument for throwing out IHRL altogether from the UK perspective.
Trans people are a useful argument for throwing out IHRL altogether from the UK perspective.
June 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
On a national interest level, it's increasingly more profitable for the UK as a nation state to say "fuck disabled people, intern migrants in camps abroad, maximise arms trade sales to Saudi and Israel".
Trans people are a useful argument for throwing out IHRL altogether from the UK perspective.
Trans people are a useful argument for throwing out IHRL altogether from the UK perspective.
The 22 boat strikes have triggered an international obligation to investigate potential illegalities.
Michael Schmitt and Marko Milanovic discuss
- legal sources for the obligation to investigate
- criteria for carrying out independent investigation
www.justsecurity.org/127136/inter...
Michael Schmitt and Marko Milanovic discuss
- legal sources for the obligation to investigate
- criteria for carrying out independent investigation
www.justsecurity.org/127136/inter...
The International Law Obligation to Investigate the Boat Strikes
The lethal strikes are unlawful under IHRL and, even on the administration’s own terms, trigger LOAC and DoD duties to investigate.
www.justsecurity.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The 22 boat strikes have triggered an international obligation to investigate potential illegalities.
Michael Schmitt and Marko Milanovic discuss
- legal sources for the obligation to investigate
- criteria for carrying out independent investigation
www.justsecurity.org/127136/inter...
Michael Schmitt and Marko Milanovic discuss
- legal sources for the obligation to investigate
- criteria for carrying out independent investigation
www.justsecurity.org/127136/inter...
The International Legal Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Boat Strikes
By @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Marko Milanovic, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
#EU #UK #France #Canada #Colombia #Mexico
By @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Marko Milanovic, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
#EU #UK #France #Canada #Colombia #Mexico
Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Strikes
The only way States can avoid complicity in “arbitrary killings” under IHRL is to refrain from sharing intelligence that enables them.
www.justsecurity.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The International Legal Obligation of States to Stop Intelligence Support for U.S. Boat Strikes
By @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Marko Milanovic, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
#EU #UK #France #Canada #Colombia #Mexico
By @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, Marko Milanovic, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
#EU #UK #France #Canada #Colombia #Mexico
Österreicher sehen das und sprechen es "ihrl grey" aus
June 27, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Österreicher sehen das und sprechen es "ihrl grey" aus
I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to free expression and in deep tension with substantive equality.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...
www.amnesty.org
May 31, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to free expression and in deep tension with substantive equality.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"...standalone generative AI systems... depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL"
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
May 31, 2026 at 1:07 AM
"...standalone generative AI systems... depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL"
Trump threatens to execute members of Congress for affirming the military’s duty to reject unlawful orders, even as some allies and military lawyers warn his boat strikes may violate international law and some partners suspend cooperation over concerns #holdfast
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Trump threatens to execute members of Congress for affirming the military’s duty to reject unlawful orders, even as some allies and military lawyers warn his boat strikes may violate international law and some partners suspend cooperation over concerns #holdfast
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
www.justsecurity.org/124762/carib...
This statement needs at least to be qualified. Starmer's government continues to approve arms sales for numerous states that are flagrant, egregious violaters of IHRL, and international law more generally. So his belief in these things clearly has significant limits, in practice.
If Starmer believes in anything, it’s international human rights law. He can reel the court’s most famous cases and detail from memory - and often does. While he is PM, the UK’s membership is settled. But ministers acknowledge something has to change or it will become a binary leave or remain fight
June 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This statement needs at least to be qualified. Starmer's government continues to approve arms sales for numerous states that are flagrant, egregious violaters of IHRL, and international law more generally. So his belief in these things clearly has significant limits, in practice.
The UN Human Rights Office expresses concern over new laws of #Georgia passed by GD parliament this week, which threaten freedoms of expression, association, and equality, while stifling political pluralism. They urge Georgia to uphold its #IHRL obligations. #HumanRights #GeorgiaProtests
April 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The UN Human Rights Office expresses concern over new laws of #Georgia passed by GD parliament this week, which threaten freedoms of expression, association, and equality, while stifling political pluralism. They urge Georgia to uphold its #IHRL obligations. #HumanRights #GeorgiaProtests
She's a progressive liberal. Caring about IHRL does not make one a radical
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
She's a progressive liberal. Caring about IHRL does not make one a radical