Statewatch
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Statewatch News Online,’ No 1 of 2: 14 February 2011 (05/11)
Corrected. Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU-PNR: Council: Proposal for a directive on the use of Passenger Name Record 2. EU-FINANCIAL PENALTIES: Council of the European Union: Implementation of the Framework Decision 3. SPAIN-MOROCCO: Press release: Ali Aarrass has been tortured 4. EU: Council of the European Union: Standing Committee on… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 January 2011: UK: Statewatch analysis: Six months on: An update on the UK coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties
Statewatch publishes a follow-up to its June 2010 analysis of the coalition government’s commitment to civil liberties: Within weeks of its formation in May 2010, the coalition government announced with much fanfare its intention ‘to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power.’ Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 December 2010: Guide to EU decision-making and justice and home affairs after the Lisbon Treaty
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org Please complete our Survey of users: It is a very simple and takes only a couple of minutes to complete: www.surveymonkey.com/s/email_list 1. EU: Statewatch publication: Guide to EU decision-making and justice and home affairs after the Lisbon Treaty 2. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The EU Justice and Home… Continue reading
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Statewatch 21 December 2010 – Survey of users
The Statewatch website gets over 600,000 ‘hits’ per month. More than 9,000 people have joined the Statewatch e-mail list. We intend to update and improve our website and email alerting service and are seeking feedback from users to help us with this process. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 December 2010: ECCHR: Report: Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ News Online: www.statewatch.org/news/newsfull.htm e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. UK: Student protests 2. Council of Europe: The role of judges in the enforcement of judicial decisions 3. EU: ECCHR: Report: Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights 4. EU: ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS REGULATION: European Court of Justice: Case 5. France: Statement by Collectif Liberté… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Amnesty International: Open Secret: Mounting Evidence of Europe’s complicity in rendition and secret detention 2. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor: Data protection reform strategy 3. EU: European Commission: Taking on the Data Retention Directive – a discussion paper 4. EU: Article 29 Working Party on… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EUROPE: Border Monitoring Project Ukraine: Access to Protection Denied 2. ECCHR: Blacklisted: Targeted Sanctions, Pre-emptive Security and Fundamental Rights 3. EU: Commission: Study on the feasilibty of establishing a mechanism for the beneficiaries of international protection 4. EU-USA TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA: European Parliament’s Civil Liberties… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 October 2010 (19/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: European Commission: Data protection proposals EU-GREECE: EU sends border guards to Greece UK: New rights to protect Britons abroad European Commission: Report on third country nationals and trafficking European Parliament: Strengthening democratic scrutiny over EU external affairs EU: Rightwing parties plan opposition to EU centralisation and immigration USA: Electronic… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 October 2010 (18/10): France-Roma controversy
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Council: France-Roma controversy – proposing the targeting of “mobile (itinerant) criminal groups”: “itinerant”=travellers=Roma EU-LIBYA: EU signs up to ‘unclear’ migration pact with Libya EU-PNR: Mandates: Council of the European Union EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play”: exploitation of children EU-USA: SWIFT-TFTP agreement: Question to European Commission… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2010 (15/10): Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
30 August, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 2. EU: Statewatch Briefing: ID Cards in the EU: Current state of play 3. G8 SUMMIT: Muskoka, Canada, 26 June 2010: G-8 Leaders Statement on Countering Terrorism 4. EU:… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 August 2010: EU: European Investigation Order (EIO): JUSTICE: Briefing on the European Investigation Order
13 August, 2010 — www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: European Investigation Order (EIO) 2. UK: Torture Guidelines 3. UK: Annual report: Intelligence Services Commissioner, 2009 4. POLAND-GERMANY: Suspected Israeli spy subject to European Arrest Warrant 5. UK: RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS JUDGMENTS 6. EU: EURODAC: Annual report 2009 7. … Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2010 (13/10)
26 July, 2010 — Statewatch Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: FRONTEX-EU’s External Borders Agency: Management Board: Analysis and Assessment 2009 2. EU: European Commission: Overview of information management 3. EU: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Letter from Article 29 Working Party on data protection 4. UK: G20-IAN TOMLINSON’S DEATH 5. EU:… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 July 2010: Council of Europe anti-torture Committee report
Statewatch: Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 21 June 2010
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: the bid is rising, migrants pay the price 2. EU-TRAFFICKING: Council: Latest draft: preventing and combating trafficking in human beings 3. UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands 4. EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 May 2010: Surveillance of “violent radicalisation” to embrace suspects from across the political spectrum
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. Statewatch Analysis: Surveillance of “violent radicalisation” to embrace suspects from across the politcal spectrum 2. EU: FOOTBALL: Evaluation report 3. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Revision of FRONTEX’s mandate 4. EU: Top EU leaders mark the International Day Against Homophobia 5. EU:… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: EUROPOL: TE-SAT 2010: EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2. UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures 3. EU countries trading in tools of torture: Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation 4. EDPS: E-waste and… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: Statewatch Analysis: The right to protest: “Troublemakers” to be recorded on database and targeted
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. UK: Metropolitan Police and the killing of Blair Peach in 1979: 2. ITALY: COE: Committee on Torture concern at detention regime for terrorism suspects 3. EU: Council of the European Union:Justice and Home Affairs Council 4. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 23… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 20 April 2010 (07/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ The European Commission is about to adopt its Action Plan on the Stockholm Progamme: 1. European Commission: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security by Tony Bunyan: www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-95-stockholm-action-plan.pdf “The ‘harnessing of the digital tsunami’ as advocated by the EU Future… Continue reading
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