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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 04 September 2010 |
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From Pax Americana to Pax Transatlantica? The Western Quest for Supremacy in the Era of Persistent Conflict |
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This study starts with the argument that the rapidly changing distribution of power in the international system coupled with the crumbling neoliberal economic order is currently posing a striking challenge to Western supremacy. Next it argues that in order to uphold their dominance the US and Europe are increasingly willing to use military force. For this purpose, a "Transatlantic New Deal" is currently in the making. As the US's power has declined, it can no longer guarantee the dominance of the West on its own, and therefore demands more military support from its allies. In a "Transatlantic New Deal", the US is willing to grant the Europeans a much greater say within the alliance and its most important institution, NATO. In the related imperial makeover of NATO and the European Union, the Western powers are sacrificing democratic principles to employ force more effectively in the future. |
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15.4.2010
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Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) e.V.,
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Jürgen Wagner (published by the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) & Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) e.V.) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 02 September 2010 |
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Non mi uccise la morte |
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"Death did not kill me", the story in comic strips of Lorenzo Cucchi, who was arrested for drug dealing on 15 October 2009, taken to prison and then died in a hospital prison ward in Rome. His body was battered and the case became a cause celebre to highlight abuses and mysterious deaths in custody in the Italian prison system. |
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Rome April 2010
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Non mi uccise la morte blog,
order the book here
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Luca Moretti, Toni Bruno |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 10 August 2010 |
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Irregular Migration,
Migrant Smuggling
and Human Rights:
Towards Coherence
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This report examines the political predicament that confronts governments
and other political actors when they address the issue of irregular migration.
Primarily, it sets out the rights, and claims to protection, that migrants are entitled
to make under international human rights law and other forms of international
law.
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The report suggests that it is in governments’ interest to affirm their legal and
moral responsibility to protect everyone, including migrants. Human rights law
provides a baseline of essential protection for migrants, and also some key
components of a more balanced and rational policy approach. A substantial
appendix summarises the rights of irregular migrants in international law.
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Geneva July 2010
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ICHRP,
More background on the project,
The report (pdf)
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The International Council on Human Rights Policy |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 10 August 2010 |
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A new book: Grenzregime (Border regimes)
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"Border regimes (Grenzregime), debates, practices and institutions in Europe" is a new book published by Assoziation A and edited by Bernd Kasparek and Sabine Hess. The book consists of 17 chapters and it is the first product of the Netzwerks kritische Migrations- und Grenzregimeforschung (Network for Critical Research on Migrations- and Border-regimes.) Research has been done amongst others in Ukraine. Morocco, Turkey, Mali, Kosovo and - to compare - in the Americas. The book describes the methods that migrants use to travel, as well as those applied by states to hinder them. Other chapters discuss on a more theoretical level which alternative options are available. The book is in German, 296 pages and costs 18 euros ISBN 978-3-935936-82-8
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Hamburg July 2010
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More information from the publisher
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Hess | Kasparek (Hrsg.)/Assoziation A |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 July 2010 |
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AI/Greece: Irregular migrants and asylum-seekers routinely detained in substandard conditions
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The Greek authorities should undertake a comprehensive overhaul of the legislative framework, policies and practices regarding the detention of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including in particular the treatment of unaccompanied children. These are the key conclusions in this report which shows that currently, immigration related detention in Greece is used without regard to its necessity or proportionality, and not as a measure of last resort.
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Greece July 2010
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announcement Amnesty,
report (pdf)
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Amnesty International |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 20 July 2010 |
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New Book: Big Brother in Europa
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Ralf Jespers describes the tools and institutions that are used to monitor European civilians. Big Brother in Europa describes European institutions like Europol, Eurojust, Frontex , e-border concepts and Galileo, European 'web checks', a European police academy and special methods for detection and gathering intelligence. The book also describes the technical developments, like RFID-chips, camera-surveillance, DNA-kits, spy ware and data banks with algoritmprograms, spy satellites...According to author Ralf Jespers the European Union is developing a dangerous architecture of security to serve the freedom of the market economy. Citizens are seen as potential threats and the war on terror provides the alibi to curb their rights. There is urgent need for a new European Charter to protect fundamental rights. The book is in Dutch, published by EPO.
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Brussels 20 july 2010
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publisher
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Ralf Jespers/EPO |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 13 July 2010 |
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De l'autre cote de la frontiere. Suivi des refoulements. |
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This report is a testimony from Anafe, an association that lends assistance to foreigners at border points, and deals with the problems faced by asylum seekers kept in airport waiting areas, particularly with regards to filing asylum claims and the situation of unaccompanied minors. It covers the period running from 2007 to 2009 and describes Anafe's attempts to monitor what happens to people who are returned to their countries of origin or transit countries after deportation. In spite of its limited ability to do so, its findings are a cause of concern. |
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Paris April 2010
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Anafe homepage,
Anafe statement presenting the report,
De l'autre cote de la frontiere. Suivi des refoulements
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Association nationale d'assistance aux frontieres pour les etrangers (ANAFE) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 13 July 2010 |
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La tortura en el Estado Espanol 2009 |
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This is the sixth report on torture in Spain by the network comprising 45 activist, neighbourhood and civil society organisations. It monitors instances of abuses committed by officers from police and law enforcement agencies, including deaths in custody, and monitors the legal proceedings that they lead to and their outcomes. The report contains detailed descriptions of cases, exhaustive statistics and a breakdown of incidents on the basis of where they happen, who was responsible and what people were on the receiving end of such violence were. |
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Spain June 2010
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Informe sobre la tortura en el Estado Espanol 2009,
Section of the report on Andalucia,
Coordinadora para la prevencion de la tortura website
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Coordinadora para la prevencion de la tortura |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 07 July 2010 |
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'One Day we will be Reunited': experiences of refugee family reunion in the UK |
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This report marks the winding down of the Scottish refugee Council’s Family Reunion Service through lack of funding in May 2009, and is designed to “capture the family reunion needs and experience of refugees and the views of professionals working in this area. Sections 4 and 5 set out the international and European context of family reunion and how family reunion currently operates in the UK. A short review of the literature is presented in Section 6, while Section 7 presents the findings from questionnaires sent to professional respondents. Section 8 sets out findings from interviews with refugee respondents who have engaged to different extents with the family reunion process. |
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April 2010
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Report on Website of the Scottish Refugee Council
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Judith Connell, Gareth Mulvey, Joe Brady and Gary Christie. Scottish Refugee Council |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 07 July 2010 |
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Rapport de la ligue grecque des droits de l’homme sur les structures de détention des immigrants sans documents de voyage et de séjour, dans les départements frontalières de Rodopi et d’Evros en Grèce |
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This report stems from a visit by a Hellenic League of Human rights delegation to Evros and Rodopi on 25-29 November 2009 which visited a number of detention facilities. Conditions in all of them are described as “below the standards envisaged by law”, with border police detention facilities in Venna (Rodopi) and the border police station of Tyhero (Evros) singled out for their “shameful” conditions for a country that claims to respect basic human rights. The shortcomings highlighted include a lack of light and ventilation, little possibility of walking in the open air due to overcrowding and lack of personnel, the detention of men, women, children and unaccompanied minors in the same cells, inadequate nourishment, a lack of knowledge by detainees of their rights, of translators and of information about asylum procedures, incomplete application of legislation concerning unaccompanied minors, a disrespectful attitude by officers towards detainees, and a lack of coordination between FRONTEX and Greek authorities. It includes detailed reports on their visits to centres, the conditions found therein and the people they interviewed. The filthy conditions, skin disease among many detainees and the presence of rats and cockroaches in the Venna centre are mentioned, with detention conditions deemed reminiscent of “cages from the Middle Ages”. The worst conditions were found in the Tyhero detention facilities, the presence of children in cells in the different centres appeared to be commonplace, and in the Fylakio-Kyprinos detention centre (Evros), detainees reportedly complained about their treatment by the police and the lack of medical care. |
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Thessalonica December 2009
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English summary,
Full report in French
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Hellenic League of Human Rights |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 06 July 2010 |
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Voces desde y contra los centros de internamiento de extranjeros (CIE). Para quien quiera oír |
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Three organisations with different backgrounds (anti-racist, medical and migrant support activity from social movements) that have been visiting detainees in Aluche detention centre in southern Madrid over the last few years, have put together this detailed report to document the conditions that exist there. It is divided into sections on judicial safeguards and guarantees during proceedings; detention conditions; the right to family intimacy, and regimes for visits and communication; cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; the right to health; social care and the experiences of foreign families; the access of NGOs to detention centres, and expulsions, transfers and returns. The report seeks to explain the conditions in the centre through the testimony of 40 people detained there, because: "The situation we discovered behind the centre’s walls made us consider the need to criticise its existence in public and make people aware of the daily life of the people enclosed there through this document. |
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Madrid October 2009
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Voces desde y contra los centros de internamiento de extranjeros (CIE). Para quien quiera oír (Spanish)
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Ferrocarril Clandestino, Médicos del Mundo, SOS Racismo |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 05 May 2010 |
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How the extreme Right hijacks direct democracy: 2 briefing papers from the IRR |
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On 29 November 2009, Switzerland became the first country in Europe to vote to curb the religious practices of Muslims when a referendum, banning the construction of minarets on mosques, was backed by a strong majority. ERA Briefing Paper no. 1, 'The Swiss referendum on minarets: background and aftermath', provides a comprehensive documentation of the Swiss referendum. ERA briefing paper no. 2 puts the Swiss vote in context. In 'Direct democracy, racism and the extreme Right', ERA documents forty cases, involving either petitions or citizens' initiative referenda, that have been held to curtail the basic rights of BME communities, asylum seekers, migrant workers, foreign residents and European Muslims. Both papers draw attention to the ways in which extreme-Right and anti-immigrant parties - like the Italian Northern League, the Austrian Freedom Party, the French Front National and the Swiss People's Party - are manipulating particular forms of direct democracy in ways that put representative democracies under threat. |
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11 February 2010
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Download ERA Briefing Paper no.1: 'The Swiss referendum on minarets: background and aftermath',
Download ERA Briefing Paper no.2: 'Direct democracy, racism and the extreme Right',
IRR Homepage
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Institute of Race Relations European Race Audit (ERA) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 05 May 2010 |
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Interception of telecommunications increases by 389 % in 4 years in the Netherlands |
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Statistics compiled by the National International Management Association of Internet Providers (NBIP) show that the Ministry of Justice and secret services have spied on around 1.5 million internet users in 2009 alone with a total of 3350 interception requests for internet or voip connections. The mean duration of a tap is 27 days. The NBIP (Nationale Beheersorganisatie Internet Providers) was set up to carry out interception requests for the authorities after the Netherlands enforced the Data Retention Directive in 2001, which compels service providers to retain their customers' data. |
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Netherlands 3 March 2010
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Webwereld news item (Dutch),
Nationale Beheersorganisatie Internet Providers (NBIP)
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Webwereld.nl |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 30 April 2010 |
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Derechos humanos en la frontera sur 2009 |
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The annual report on human rights at the EU's southern border in Spain by APDHA focusses on migration flows into Spain, repression and monitors the victims that it causes. This year, experts from African countries are given the opportunity to voice their views and explains the effects of EU policies on their countries, with contributions from Morocco, Congo, Cameroon and Mali. |
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Sevilla 5 March 2010
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Derechos humanos en la frontera sur 2009 (Spanish),
Droits de l'homme en frontiere sud 2009,
APDHA
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Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucia (APDHA) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 January 2010 |
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Without Rights (Documentary) |
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A new documentary film by HCLU on the situation of Romani people in Hungary. Why would a local government pass a law that forces clubs to close at 10 pm, in an area where the only place open at that time happenes to be Romani? How can someone be accused of carrying 700 kg of wood on a bicycle? How can a case be labelled as a false alarm when the whole street witnessed a gun being pointed at a pregnant woman? How can the parents of six children be put in prison for two of their children skipping school? The film deals with such issues. |
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December 2009
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Link to documentary online
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Hungarian Civil Liberties Union |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 16 January 2010 |
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Understanding Rendition: An ACLU Case (You Tube video) |
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The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing Company, on behalf of five victims of the U.S. government's unlawful "extraordinary rendition" program. The lawsuit charges that Jeppesen knowingly provided direct flight services to the CIA that enabled the clandestine transportation of Binyam Mohamed, Abou Elkassim Britel, Ahmed Agiza, Bisher al-Rawi and Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah to secret overseas locations where they were subjected to torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. |
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2009
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Video and Background information
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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NeoConOpticon: The EU Security Industrial Complex |
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"This report is an indispensable reference manual on the threats posed to citizens by the convergence of neo-con ideology, power and technology in the name of national security." (Frances Webber, Institute of Race Relations).
In 2006, Statewatch and the Transnational Institute published Arming Big Brother, a briefing paper examining the development of the European Union’s Security Research Programme (ESRP). The ESRP is a seven year, €1.4 billion programme predicated on the need to deliver new security enhancing technologies to the Union’s member states in order to protect EU citizens from every conceivable threat to their security (understood here purely in terms of bodily safety). This follow-up report contains new research showing how the European Security Research Programme continues to be shaped by prominent transnational defence and security corporations and other vested interests. Though technically a Research and Development (R&D) programme, the ESRP is heavily focused on the application of security technologies (rather than objective research per se), and is increasingly aligned with EU policy in the fields of justice and home affairs (JHA, the ‘third pillar’), security and external defence (CFSP, the ‘second pillar’). |
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September 2009
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NeoConOpticon (PDF),
NeoConOpticon blog,
Statewatch,
Transnational Institute
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Ben Hayes, Statewatch, Transnational Institute |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Website: Iraq Inquiry Digest -
Everything about the Chilcot Inquiry in one place |
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"This is a project to monitor and comment on the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. Its aim is both to inform and to provide a dynamic forum for comment and analysis as the Inquiry progresses. It seeks to provide a balance of views and opinion. Its objective is to be constructive and to provide reasoned and well argued comment." |
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2009
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Iraq Inquiry Digest homepage
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Various journalists |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Responsibility to Protest - After Lockerbie (The Spokesman 106) |
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From the summary: In 1988, a Pan American passenger jet had been blown up while flying over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie en route for the United States. The evidence showed that a bomb had been secreted in passenger luggage. It had exploded in mid-air, killing all 259 passengers and another eleven were killed in the crash. Who could have conceived such an atrocity? The intelligence agencies of the world were not at a loss for an explanation. But they were flummoxed by the problem of how to present what they knew, or indeed, whether to present it. Libyan Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi was eventually sentenced by three Scottish Judges to life imprisonment, following a highly contentious trial in which the Scottish Courts sat in an American airbase in The Netherlands to hear the case of the Lockerbie bomb. Contents: Robert Black - Lockerbie and the Law
Hans Köchler - Unfair Trial
Marcello Mega - Lockerbie - the Cover-up
Tam Dalyell - The Crime of Lockerbie
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John Pilger - The Party of Criminal War
Noam Chomsky - Responsibility to Protest
Tony Blair - Pirate's Charter
Ken Coates - Benign Whitewash |
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2009
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Spokesman Journal,
Bertrand Russel Peace Foundation
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Russels Foundation, Ken Coates (editor) |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 03 December 2009 |
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Informationsbrief #102 2009 |
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This edition of the German critical lawyers' association RAV includes, amongst others, articles on state strategies to avoid compensation payments to victims of NAZI crimes with reference to the procedures launched by Italy against Germany before the International Criminal Court in The Hague; internet surveillance and civil liberties concerns; critique of the German anti-terrorism article 129a with reference to current trials and the use of evidence used in courts that was extracted by way of torture; amnesty internationals work on and advice for victims of police violence; and EU Member State practices of refusing citizens to leave their country in the run-up to protests against the NATO summit in Strassburg/Kehl earlier this year. |
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August 2009
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Informationsbrief #102 2009 (PDF),
RAV homepage
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Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälte Verein e.V. (RAV) |
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