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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 15 January 2013 |
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European Privacy Day 2013 |
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On January 28, the world celebrates Privacy Day, a day in which events are held around the world to recognize the importance of privacy for our human values and fundamental freedoms. European Privacy Day 2013 is a platform that gives visibility to events, organised by governmental and other institutions and civil society,that draw the attention to the value privacy and data protection have in our societies or engage the citizen in privacy relevant activities. |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 15 January 2013 |
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Amsterdam's Plan to Resettle "Antisocial Tenants" in Containment Camps Set to Begin This Month |
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Amsterdam (...) has announced an illiberal social containment and human disposability scheme to house what the Dutch are calling "antisocial tenants." The plan is to warehouse live bodies - or an ever-mounting population of surplus labor - in converted shipping containers. |
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Article on Truthout
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Danny Weil, Truthout |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 15 January 2013 |
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Schedule 7 terror laws used to interrogate activists |
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There is now abundant evidence that the police are using terrorism powers to stop and question activists on their political activities when they pass through UK ports. |
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Article on website
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Netpol |
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ECLN notice - meetings/conferences - added 15 January 2013 |
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HANDS UP FOR INQUEST 2013 – Fundraising dinner |
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Hosted by Jon Snow, with special guest comedian Doc Brown.
Thursday 7 March 2013
@ The Tabernacle, London W11
Please join us for an evening of good food, laughter and entertainment, all in aid of INQUEST’s award-winning work |
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08 January 2013
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Website Inquest
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Inquest |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 15 January 2013 |
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Joke Kaviaar, activist/ publicist, under attack by Dutch state - solidarity needed
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Joke Kaviaar, writer/ poet/ anarchist/activist, had been put on trial by the Dutch state for íncitement against public order'. The charge is based on four articles she wrote and published on het website, in which she strongly criticized the oppression, detention and deportation of migrants/ refugees/ people without papers, and called for active resistance aganist these policies. |
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Article on libcom.org,
Support group
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rooieravotr/libcom.org |
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ECLN notice - meetings/conferences - added 06 January 2013 |
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Lecture: Big Brother in Europe |
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Raf Jespers, writer of the book 'Big Brother in Europe' gives a lecture in ‘Het Huis Happaert’ in Antwerp on February 21 2013 |
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Antwerpen 21 February 2013
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More information,
More on the book (Dutch)
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Progress Lawyers Network |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 06 January 2013 |
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5 Reasons to Be Terrified That Computers Can Now Read Faces
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The ability of computers to recognize faces is so common now that your Xbox Kinect can do it, logging you in the moment you step in front of the thing. It seems like a fairly harmless invention -- if anything, it will save you a few seconds when (for instance) your future house will recognize that it's you at the door instead of a burglar. But this technology is going in a series of extremely creepy directions.
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29 November 2012
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Article on website cracked.com
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Monte Richard/Cracked.com |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 06 January 2013 |
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Boat Guardia Civil runs over refugees killing 7, survivors start hunger strike |
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16 Survivors from a boat with refugees that was hit by a boat from the Spanish Guardia Civil near Lanzarote on December 13 2012, killing at least 7 refugees, have started a hunger strike |
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06 January 2013
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News (in German) on website FFM
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Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht & Migration |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 04 January 2013 |
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New video on Canadas 'Refugee Exclusion Act' |
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On December 15, 2012, the Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31, formally the
"Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act") will be fully implemented.
Please watch, and share this video, of past and current immigration
detainees and No One Is Illegal - Toronto organizers explaining the
impacts of these new laws. Filmed by Liberation Cooperative Organization
outside the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre. |
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14 December 2012
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New Video,
Key Facts about Detention
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No One is Illegal Toronto |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 04 January 2013 |
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Hunger strike at Refugee Camp Vienna |
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Press conference on day 13 of the hunger strike in the Votive Church |
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Weblog Refugee Camp
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Press release refugees |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 04 January 2013 |
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Flight & Expulsion |
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Based on the annual UNHCR Refugee Report, the application allows views from different perspectives on the extensive dataset, highlighting different aspects. The idea for this visualization originated from a class project on the topic of mapping global tendencies at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in 2008. The current application's interface was completely rebuilt in late 2009. |
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Website
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Potsdam University of Applied Sciences |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 11 December 2012 |
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24% of EU population 'at risk of poverty or social exclusion' |
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Twenty-four percent of the EU population - or 119.6 million people - were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2011, according to Eurostat figures published yesterday (3 December). |
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04 December 2012
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Article at EurActiv
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Eurostat/EurActiv |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 11 December 2012 |
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Open letter to Dutch Minister on plan for remote searches of computers |
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43 NGO's sign letter against plans to grant Dutch police the
authority to break into local and foreign computers and remotely conduct searches and
delete data in the course of a criminal investigation. |
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Open letter (pdf)
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43 NGO's |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 11 December 2012 |
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Which way forward on racial profiling? |
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A review of the major development in initiatives against racial profiling in European policing. A review of the major development in initiatives against racial profiling in European policing. |
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06 December 2012
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On website IRR
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Institute of Race Relations (IRR) |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 10 December 2012 |
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Dutch general practitioners refuse to hand over information on patients
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The Association of Dutch General Practitioners (VPHuisartsen) has started a law suit against four of the major health insurance companies. These companies demand that the practitioners hand over information about their patients in a 'voluntary; electronic data network LSP. The attempt to force all doctors to store all their data on a compulsive system called EPD (Electronic Patients' Dossier) failed in 2010 after the senate refused to approve a law on this.The practitioners warn that they will not be able to uphold their vow of confidentiality if they are forced to take part in such a system.
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Earlier article at Statewatch epd,
Press Release in Dutch
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 10 December 2012 |
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The moral sadism of the Dutch State |
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Desperate to eject some refugees it does not want, the Netherlands is refining the art of radical deprivation. No single step, no single decision, no single action in this process is horrible. Yet the cumulative effect is grotesque. |
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4 December 2012
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Article on openDemocracy
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Markha Valenta |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 10 December 2012 |
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ANVB |
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ANVB stands for 'Algemene Nederlandse Vreemdelingen Bond'(General Association for Foreigners), a spoof for the association for car owners ANWB. ANVB also indicates where to go... |
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Website ANVB
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Kees |
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ECLN notice - campaigns/open letters - added 10 December 2012 |
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Bail for Immigration Detainees |
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Bail for Immigration Detainees is an independent charity that exists to challenge immigration detention in the UK. We work with asylum seekers and migrants, in removal centres and prisons, to secure their release from detention. |
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BiD |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 10 December 2012 |
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New global report on discrimination against the nonreligious |
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The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) has produced the first report focusing on how countries around the world discriminate against non-religious people. Freedom of Thought 2012: A Global Report on Discrimination Against Humanists, Atheists and the Non-religious has been published to mark Human Rights Day, Monday 10 December. |
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10 December 2012
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Website IHEU
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IHEU |
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ECLN notice - publications/research - added 28 November 2012 |
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Police Spies Out of Lives |
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Support group for women's legal action against undercover policing |
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November 2012
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