On Dec. 10, the House of Commons 🇨🇦 resolved unanimously (...) to engage with the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to engage with civil society to advance the cause of nuclear abolition. hilltimes.com/story/2025/01/…

Greenland's prime minister: Greenland belongs to Greenlanders dr.dk/nyheder/udland…

HRW joins with nearly 90 other organizations in a letter opposing US sanctions against the International Criminal Court. It would be a terrible irony if a tool designed to penalize violators of human rights could instead contribute to their impunity. trib.al/x52UTj3

Interesting late-Biden administration decision that RSF actions in Sudan amount to genocide. Press release is long on actus reus (systematic murder on ethnic lines, preventing access to humanitarian aid), nothing about basis for finding genocidal intent. state.gov/genocide-deter…

M. Ahtisaari said long ago: #peace is a matter of will. Israel does not seem to be there yet. What now? #Palestine #Ceasefire yle.fi/a/74-20135202

Just finished reading and notating this meticulously researched book. My own ignorance shocked me as much as the chronicled atrocities.

Yesterday, five children sheltering in the same tent together in al-Mawasi, a so-called 'humanitarian safe zone', were killed by Israeli airstrikes. By failing to suspend all arms sales to Israel, the UK Government is complicit in these horrors. They must act now.

Lest anyone be in any doubt, a forceful seizure of either would violate the fundamental prohibitions against the use of force and annexation of territory by conquest, and would be a potentially fatal blow to the international rule of law. buff.ly/3PuR7Od

Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen will visit Moldova on 9 January in her role as Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe OSCE #OSCE25FI Press release ⬇️ um.fi/current-affair…

What Western media doesn’t want to tell you.

As the grandson of holocaust survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and as an international lawyer specialized in the law of armed conflict and international criminal justice, I call on #Poland's President Andrzej Duda to retract his request to grant immunity to #Israel's

Neighbours helping neighbors. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

Chatted with Newsweek on how Greenland's autonomy / Inuit self-rule link to Trump's delusions of buying Greenland: newsweek.com/problem-donald…

Have you noted that #Finland & #Åland are together chairing the #Nordic Council of Ministers? Here is the programme for this chairmanship. This model was originally launched by #Denmark, #Faroe Islands & #Greenland. valtioneuvosto.fi/sv/-/programme…

Also #FaroeIslands take the opportunity to underline international agency.

Minister of education in #Finland comments on X & social media dilemmas. An interesting thread that can also improve knowledge of #Finnish.

The recent LA fires shed light on a troubling practice in California: the use of incarcerated individuals to fight wildfires. This system, which utilizes an exception in the 13th Amendment, raises serious human rights concerns. 🧵⤵️ forbes.com/sites/dougmelv…

A brief note on my way out. My University abandoned X last year already. After Musk's open support for AfD in #Germany & undue involvement in German politics, I see no other way than to let go of X. See you in Åbo/Turku if you are around! abo.fi