30 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases
2. UK: Statewatch Analysis: Review of counter-terrorism powers fails to deliver definitive change
3. ECHR-UK: JUDGMENT: UK would violate human rights of two Somali nationals if it returned them to Mogadishu
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28 February, 2011 — Statewatch
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1. EU-USA SWIFT DEAL: MEP Swift ‘secrecy’ may hamper new data deals with US
2. EU-COE-ECHR: Draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the Convention
3. EU: Council of the European Union: Justice and Home Affairs Council, Press release
4. EU: BODY SCANNERS: Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee
5. EU: BODY SCANNERS: European Parliament: Highly critical: Draft Opinion
6. EU: INTERNAL SECURITY: European Parliament: Working documents
7. UK: Home Office: Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000
8. EU: European Commission Communication: Evaluation of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs)
9. EU/Africa: Migreurop statement on the EU’s migration policy as supportive of dictatorships
10. EU: Council of the European Union: Council conclusions: A comprehensive approach on personal data protection
11. EU: MEPs question ‘Big Brother’ urban observation project
12. EU: Confusion over new comitology rules coming into force on 1 March
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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 Egalité Justice : LOPPSI 2: not in our name!
6. EU: MANDATORY DATA RETENTION
7. EU: Joint Letter: NGOs’ perspective on the EU accession to the ECHR
8. EU: Fundamental Rights Agency: proposal would extend the remit to cover polcing and criminal law
9. EU: European Parliament: Question: “Radicalisation” and data collection
10. EU: Issuing visas: Lists of the authorities
11. UK: PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN: Kurdish community leaders questioned by MI5 officers
12. EU Fundamental Rights Agency reports: Separated, asylum-seeking children
13. UK: Citizens Advice Bureau report: Uncivil Recovery
14. EU: Statewatch Analysis: Extending EU long-term resident status to refugees and persons with subsidiary protection status
15. Norway/Italy: Wholesale seizure of activist e-communications service provider’s data
16. EU: Statewatch Analysis: The new Directive on trafficking in persons
17. EU: Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA Council)
18. IRAQ-USA-GAO REPORT: Displaced Iraqis
19. EU: EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER (EIO): Statewatch Analysis
30 November, 2010
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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 data protection: Data protection authorities critical on sharing passengers? data
5. UK: Joint Human Rights Committee report: Legislative Scrutiny: Terrorist Asset- Freezing
6. EU: Statewatch Analysis: First thoughts on the EU?s Internal Security Strategy
7. UK: Surveillance Society Network: Information Commissioner?s report to Parliament on the state of surveillance
8. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): European Protection Order and the European Investigation Order
9. EU-USA: European Parliament: Hearing Data Protection in a transatlantic perspective
10. EU: European Commission: 6th report on visa requirements
12. EURODAC: Ten EU governments want law enforcement agencies to have access to the EURODAC database
13. POLAND: Data retention and population surveillance
14. FRANCE: Statewatch Analysis: France Collective expulsions of Roma people undermines EU?s founding principles
15. EU: European Court of Justice: A person can be excluded from refugee status
16. EU: European Commission: Report: 2010 progress review of the EU Drugs Action Plan (2009-2012)
17. EU: Council of the European Union: Common European Asylum System – State of Play
18. EU: Quaker Council for European Affairs: Briefing Paper: Security Co-operation between the EU and Israel
19. Italy: Extension of soldiers’ deployment in cities
20. European Commission: A comprehensive approach on personal data protection in the European Union
21. UK-FRANCE: Coalition government signs Declaration on “illegal” immigration
22. EU: European Parliament study: Readmission policy in the EU
23. EU: Council of the European Union: Proposal for a Directive on the right to information in criminal proceedings
24. EU: Marie Diop: Unaccompanied Minors? Rights within the European Union
30 November, 2010
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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 Committee to Council
5. EU: European Commission: Internal Security Strategy
6. EU: Council of the European Union: EU Action Plan on combating terrorism
7. EU: Council: Draft Council conclusions on the role of the police and civil society in combating violent radicalisation
8. EU: CoE: New recommendation on judges’ independence, efficiency and responsibilities
9. Russell Tribunal on Palestine: European Union R&D subsidises for Israeli security actors
10. EU-USA AGREEMENT: Article 29 Working Party on data protection
11. EU: European Arrest Warrants (EAW): Replies to questionnaire
12. EU-UK: Statewatch Analysis: The UK’s European Union Bill by Professor Steve Peers
13. EU: Final version: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
14. Italy: State offers Aldrovandi family compensation
15. EU: Migreurop annual report: European borders: controls, detention and deportations
16. UK: FITWATCH shut down: Met closes down anti-police blog
17. EU: Commission: list of travel documents entitling the holder to cross the external borders
18. Euro-Drones update: more funding from FP7, FRONTEX and EDA
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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 project
5. UN: BC Civil Liberties Association/ICLMG: Rights groups challenge United Nations blacklist in court
6. USA: Physicians for Human Rights: Experiments in torture: ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program
7. EU: Eurodac Supervision Coordination Group (EDPS): Coordinated Supervision of Eurodac: Activity Report
8. EU: Commission: Annual Report 2009: On Relations between the Commission and National Parliaments
9. EU: Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) report: Becoming vulnerable in Europe
10. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 3-4 June 2010
11. EU: Commission: “Action Plan Implementing the Stockholm Programme”
12. UK: Statewatch: UK Government’s “clumsy, indiscriminate and disproportionate” approach to DNA retention
13. Italy: Statewatch analysis: Shocking death spotlights prisoners’ plight
14. EU: EU-US and Member States 2010 Declaration on Counterterrorism
15. UK: Statewatch: Shock and anger at the violent policing tactics used at the G8 Summit
16. Italy: Statewatch: The internal and external fronts: security package and returns to Libya
17. Germany: Statewatch: Federal Republic’s security services from the Cold War to the “new security architecture”
18. EU: Musical chairs in Brussels
19. Slovakia/Algeria: Expulsion contravenes ECtHR orders
20. UK: Bill to abolish ID cards published: Identity Documents Bill
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1. DUTCH PRISON FOR BELGIANS: Under the European Arrest Warrant
2. EU: “Fishing expeditions” for fingerprints leads to limits being imposed
3. EU Security Research: “NeoConOpticon” blog updated
4. UK: Joint Human Rights Committee: Annual Renewal of Control Orders
5. France/Algeria: Joint maritime surveillance and security operation
6. EU: European Commission proposal to amend the Frontex Regulation
7. France/Italy: “One day without us”, day of struggle in support of migrants’
8. EU: Directive on single permit and workers’ rights
9. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting, Brussels, 25-26 February 2010
10. CHIP & PIN: Article
11. UK: Operation of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000
12. EU: The first 1st reading “deal” of the new parliamentary session
13. Council of Europe: The future of the European Court of Human Rights
14. EU: FRONTEX: Frontex Programme of Work 2010
15. EU: Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown
16. CIA RENDITION: Poland: fresh evidence of cooperation
17. EU setting up intelligence “agency”
18. USA: GOOGLE: EPIC urges Court to reject Goggle Books settlement
19. EU AGENCIES: the heads of the 28 EU agencies met with the Commission
20. USA-NO FLY LIST: Terrorists, US Immigration, and a Canceled Tour
21. EU: European Commission: Implementation of Article 290 of the Treaty
22. EU: European Commission proposal on aviation security
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