#PresidentConnolly's statement on #InternationalWomensDay 2026 was about peace, and Ireland's #Article29 constitutional commitment to international law.

#CatherineConnolly's statement begins: "The violations of international law we are witnessing are shocking and numbing, but we cannot afford inaction.

What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law."

Full text at https://president.ie/en/media-library/news-releases/statement-by-president-connolly-on-international-womens-day-2026

@mpfpr held the fourth #Afghanistan Legal Research Network symposium of 2025, on negation and arbitration under #CEDAW.

Read more: https://www.mpfpr.de/2025/06/16/foundation-holds-afghanistan-legal-research-network-symposium-on-negation-and-arbitration-under-cedaw/

#ICJ #Article29 #ergaomnespartes #Ruleoflaw #MPFPR

R to @echo_pbreyer: 🇬🇧 Final #AIAct leaked: EU to rubber-stamp permanent #biometricmasssurveillance in public spaces by means of real-time #facesurveillance (#Article5) and to apply it to CCTV recordings even for petty offences (#Article29)!

Final text: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AIAct_final_four-column21012024.pdf
My opinion: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/ai-act-threatens-to-make-facial-surveillance-commonplace-in-europe/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/echo_pbreyer/status/1749745628496748552#m

[2024-01-23 10:47 UTC]

Final #AIAct leaked: EU to rubber-stamp permanent #biometricmasssurveillance in public spaces by means of real-time #facesurveillance (#Article5) and to apply it to CCTV recordings even for petty offences (#Article29)!

Final text: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AIAct_final_four-column21012024.pdf
My opinion: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/ai-act-threatens-to-make-facial-surveillance-commonplace-in-europe/