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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 08 September 2010 |
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Stories from 'illegals' |
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On this website we gather (links to) stories from people about their attempts to survive in the Netherlands, without documents. From detention, from the street, about deportations |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 08 September 2010 |
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IV Foro Social Mundial de las migraciones |
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The fourth edition of the World Social Forum on Migrations will be in Quito in October 2010. It is an opportunity for associations from all over the world that work on this issue to share experiences and develop common strategies. The themes that will be discussed include: "Global crisis and migration flows", "Human rights and migration", "Diversity, coexistence and socio-cultural transformations", "New forms of slavery, servitude and human exploitation". |
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IV Foro Social Mundial de las Migraciones,
4th World Social Forum on Migrations,
IVeme Forum Social Mondial des Migrations
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 02 September 2010 |
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Face à la xénophobie et à la politique du pilori: liberté, égali té fraternité |
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A "citizen's appeal" by 50 French organisations that was signed by over 60,000 people in two days after President Sarkozy singled out Roma people and foreigners, encouraging their repression by law enforcement agencies, and resulting in large-scale expulsions of Roma people. The appeal claims that he has deliberately called into question the foundational principles of the French republic, and has placed millions under suspicion merely as a result of their origins and social status. Their response is to reaffirm the values of "freedom, equality and brotherhood", stressing "the equality of all people before the law, irrespective of their origin, race or religion", and to oppose what they call a "policy of harrassment". |
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Face à la xénophobie et à la politique du pilori : liberté, égalité, fraternité,
Non a la politique du pilori website
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50 organisations "Non a la politique du pilori" |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 01 September 2010 |
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Forum of Concerned Citizens of Europe |
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The Forum of Concerned Citizens consists of scholars, artists and other citizens concerned about the prevailing racism and deteriorating attitudes against migrants, refugees and minorities in Europe, about the increasingly illiberal and exclusionary politics of fear, about rightwing extremist parties whose rhetoric is affecting also mainstream and government parties and about the general deterioriation of democratic and humanitarian values in Europe.
The main goal of the Forum is to stimulate and organize an international debate on the future of an ethnically democratic, pluralist and multicultural Europe. |
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website,
Open letter to Europe (pdf),
Manifesto (pdf)
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 11 August 2010 |
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Comic Book 'Under Surveillance'
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Information and communication technologies (telephone, Internet, emails, blogs and social networks) make daily life and relationships with our relatives, friends or even strangers easier. Young people and young adults make a particularly intense use of them. However, unless we are careful, they can lead us to hand over excessive amounts of our personal data, facilitating surveillance of our private lives. Protection of personal data is crucial for the respect for privacy. The European Union has established a legislative and regulatory framework which aims at ensuring the protection of citizens’ personal data as one of their fundamental rights. What is the reality in practice and how can we protect ourselves on a daily basis?
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AEDH,
flipbook (English),
(French)
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The European Association for the defense of Human Rights (AEDH) |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 11 August 2010 |
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Belgium: Camera spotting
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The League for Human Rights (Liga voor Mensenrechten) in Flanders has started an interactive online mapping project where people can register CCTV-camera's that they spot in their surroundings. If wanted one can add comment to each registration.
The Liga voor Mensenrechten has received notice that subsidies which it used to received from the Flanders government, will be stopped by 2011. The organisation calls for support in protesting against this decision:
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Liga voor Mensenrechten,
camera-mapping,
call for support
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Liga voor Mensenrechten |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 06 August 2010 |
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Letter in the Guardian: Protest at shocking Tomlinson decision
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The shocking decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge any officers over the death of Ian Tomlinson (Editorial, 23 July) exposes the root-and-branch corruption of the justice system. Rather than protecting the innocent, the police, CPS and Independent Police Complaints Commission have been shown to protect each other's backs.
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United Campaign Against Police Violence,
The letter in The Guardian
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United Campaign Against Police Violence |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 27 July 2010 |
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Ian Tomlinson Family launch fighting fund
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The Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to bring any criminal charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson, who died during the protests against the G20 summit in London on 1 April 2009. The
Tomlinson family launched a 'fighting fund' that will help to make decisions about the direction of the campaign without always having to worry about the financial costs, especially when the emotional ones are tough enough already.
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website family campaign,
Inquest lawyers Group
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Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 27 July 2010 |
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Civil society groups call for end to telecommunications data retention |
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More than 100 organisations from 23 European countries asked EU Commissioners Malmström, Reding and Kroes in a joint letter to "propose the repeal of the EU requirements regarding data retention in favour of a system of expedited preservation and targeted collection of traffic data". Among the signatories are civil liberties, data protection and human rights associations as well as crisis line and emergency call operators, professional associations of journalists, jurists and doctors, trade unions, consumer organisations and industry associations. |
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Letter at Privacy International
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Privacy International |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 27 July 2010 |
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Clandestino Day 2010 |
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Carta magazine promotes the second edition of the Clandestino Day to respond to discrimination against migrants. The issues it highlights include refoulements at sea, racist laws, the point-based residence permit and violation of the right to seek asylum. It seeks to build upon a large demonstration held on 17 October 2009 and the "day without migrants" celebrated on 1 March 2010 to build a popular mobilisation. |
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Clandestino Day 2010,
Carta
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Carta |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 27 July 2010 |
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Solidaridad con Noura |
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Demonstration by the campaign against foreigners' detention centres to protest against the expulsion of Noura, a Moroccan national who was arrested for not having a residence permit and placed in a police station where she claims that she suffered sexual abuse. After 40 days in Zapadores detention centre, she was expelled to Morocco on 12 July, and was thus unable to testify although a criminal investigation into the case was underway. |
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Solidaridad con Noura. Information statement,
Campana por el cierre de los centros de internamiento para extranjeros blog
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Campana por el cierre de los centros de internamiento para extranjeros |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 13 July 2010 |
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Welcome! Indietro non si torna |
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Welcome! indietro non si torna (Welcome! there's no going back), is a campaign against all refoulements and in favour of the right of asylum, whose launch involved demonstrations in ports on the Adriatic coast including Venice, Ancona, Bari and, across the sea in Greece, in Patras and Igoumenitsa on 20 June 2010. |
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Full listing of the campaign's initiatives to date,
Welcome! campaign presentation
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Melting Pot |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 05 May 2010 |
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German civil society calls for a definitive end to telecommunications data retention |
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On 19 April 2010, more than 40 organisations called on the German Federal Minister of Justice to "push for the abolition of EU telecommunications data retention requirements", which compel phone and Internet companies to collect data about their customers' communications. According to the open letter, data retention puts confidential activity and contacts, for example to journalists, crisis lines and business partners, at risk of disclosure by way of data leaks and abuses. It is expensive and damages the freedom of communication. Among the 48 signatories of the letter are German civil liberties, data protection and human rights associations as well as crisis line and emergency call operators, professional associations of journalists, jurists and doctors and major trade unions. On 2 March 2010 the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled the German data retention provisions unconstitutional, following complaints from over 34,000 German citizens. However a 2006 EU directive compels member states to implement a data retention regime. The European Commission is currently reviewing this directive. |
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Open Letter
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German Working Group on Data Retention |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 30 April 2010 |
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Le carceri scoppiano. Potenziamo le misure alternative, liberiamo i tossicodipendenti! |
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There have been mobilisations within and outside prisons about the overcrowding that they are experiencing (which is also recognised by the government), with the prison population reaching 65,000. The appeal highlights that this due to specific laws such as those on drugs (Fini-Giovanardi), immigration, on repeat offenders (Cirielli) and for offences that have little social impact, such as the one that was recently re-introduced of causing offence to a public officer. The law on drugs is described as the most punitive in Europe and as accounting for half the prison population. The appeal calls for a strengthening of alternative measures to imprisonment and criticises the authorities' aim to tackle this problem by building more prisons. |
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Le carceri scoppiano,
Fuoriluogo
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Fuoriluogo |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 23 February 2010 |
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Carceri aperte ai giornalisti |
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Appeal for journalists to have access to prisons, to be able to report the things that happen there. It follows a series of scandals including the death of Stefano Cucchi, and highlights that "over the last few years, the prison administration has increasingly restricted the possibilities of access". |
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Carceri aperte ai giornalisti
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Associazione Antigone and Il Manifesto |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 23 February 2010 |
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La Journée Sans Immigrés - 24h sans nous |
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French initiative for a strike by migrants on 1 March 2010, which has been adhered to in Italy following recent developments. From the campaign manifesto "Let's make 1 March an historic day", "We, women and men of all creeds, of all political sides and of all skin colours, immigrants, second-generation immigrants, citizens who are aware of immigration's essential contribution to our countries, have had enough of the shameful proposals backed by certain political representatives that seek to stigmatise and criminalise immigrants and their children..." call a "day without immigrants" by stopping to consume or work on 1 March, voluntarily abstaining from the city's life to "indicate the need for our presence" through this absence. The initiative has crossed borders and will also take place in Italy. |
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La journée sans immigrés,
Primo marzo 2010 - sciopero degli stranieri
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LJSI |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 17 January 2010 |
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Petition: No to nuclear weapons! |
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ITUC petition to be presented to UN secretary Ban Ki-Moon in May 2010 on the occassion of the United Nations review of the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): "We wish to add our voices to the global campaign for an end to nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. We believe that the world needs to take urgent action to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, and to make the world free of nuclear weapons, as part of the overall drive for worldwide peace and the transfer of military spending to socially-useful ends [...] Trade unionists from around the world are urging that meeting to make a clear path towards abolition of nuclear weapons in the shortest possible time. We ask that:
- those countries which have not joined the NPT do so, and for all countries to comply with it in full;
- the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty enter into force as soon as possible;
- there be an immediate start to and rapid progress on the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty; and
- we ask for international agreements to support nuclear-weapon-free zones." |
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Sign the petition,
ITUC
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International Trade Union Confederation |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 12 January 2010 |
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Manifiesto de apoyo a la campanha a favor del no encarcelamiento de los "manteros" |
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A statement in which this campaign to stop street sellers of pirate CDs/DVDs from going to prison, alongside members of the performing arts, call upon the Spanish parliament to "adopt the necessary legal measures to prevent these people... from being imprisoned". While expressing their opposition to the sale of counterfeit goods and defending the protection of intellectual property rights, the artists who sign the statement deem the arrest for up to two years for exhibiting and selling pirate copies on the street "disproportionate". |
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Manifiesto de apoyo a la campanha a favor del no encarcelamiento de los "manteros" ,
Plataforma "ningun mantero en prision"
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Plataforma "ningun mantero en prision" |
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