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Search for Issue: "Surveillance, biometric documents " returned 80 records. |
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publications/research 19 October 2005 |
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Journalism, civil liberties and the war on terrorism |
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includes an analysis of current policy developments as well as a survey of 20 selected countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin Amercia, the Middle East and the USA.
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May 2005
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Full-text,
Statewatch website
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International Federation of Journalists and Statewatch |
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campaigns/open letters 22 October 2005 |
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International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) |
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ICAMS was launched on April 20 2005 in London, Manila, Ottawa and Washington with the support of almost one hundred groups from around the world. The ICAMS report, "The Emergence Of A Global Infrastructure For Mass Registration And Surveillance", was published with the launch of the campaign. |
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ICAMS website,
the ICAMS report
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ICAMS |
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campaigns/open letters 22 October 2005 |
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Data retention is no solution! |
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Petition against EU proposals for mandatory data retention of all telecommunications traffic data (including internet usage & mobile phone location data) |
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Sign the petition,
EDRI website,
XS4ALL website
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European Digital Rights Initiative (EDRI) & XS4ALL |
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campaigns/open letters 11 November 2005 |
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Legal proceedings in Italy by ALCEI
against Sony for a “criminal” offence
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ALCEI reported SONY BMG Entertainment to the customs police after detecting intrusive anti-copy software in a CD that is surreptitiously downloaded and allows the “back-door” tracing of material when a user accepts the product license. |
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ALCEI statement (English),
ALCEI statement (Italian),
Full-text of the complaint (Italian)
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ALCEI, Associazione per la libertà nella comunicazione elettronica interattiva |
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Associazione per la Libertà nella Comunicazione Elettronica Interattiva (ALCEI) |
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Electronic frontiers foundation |
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Italy
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ALCEI website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Autistici |
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Privacy organisation |
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Italy
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Autistici website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP |
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Covers civil liberties and policing and is based at the Free University of Berlin, founded in 1975 |
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Germany
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CILIP website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) |
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Group campaigning against laws based on a pretext of counter-terrorism |
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UK
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CAMPACC website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EALDH) |
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A democratic confederation of diverse national associations of democratic lawyers |
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Europe
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EALDH website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Hellenic League for Human Rights |
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Founded in 1953 |
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Greece
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Humanistische Union |
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Founded in 1961, Germany's oldest civil liberties organisation |
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Germany
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Radio Nizkor |
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Europe's frst human rights radio station |
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Spain
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website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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Statewatch |
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Monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe |
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UK
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Statewatch website
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links to ECLN groups 11 November 2005 |
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VD Amok |
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Anti-militarist and conscientious objectors organization that works closely together with the peace movement |
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Holland
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website
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publications/research 11 November 2005 |
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Balancing security and democracy. The politics of biometric identification in the EU |
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European University Institute working paper |
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October 2005
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Full-text,
EUI website
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Angela Liberatore |
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meetings/conferences 20 November 2005 |
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22nd Chaos Communication Congress. 22C3: Private Investigations |
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The 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (22C3) is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia. The Congress offers lectures and workshops on a multitude of topics including (but not limited to) information technology, IT-security, internet, cryptography and generally a critical-creative attitude towards technology and the discussion about the effects of technological advances on society. The Congress has established itself as the "European Hacker Conference" bringing in people from all over Europe and even further away. It not only addresses the techno geek but also those who are interested in appliances and their effects on society. Lectures will be held predominantly in English, a few in German. The language used for each lecture is clearly marked in the conference program. |
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BCC Berliner Congress Center, Berlin (Germany) 27 - 30 December 2005
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Chaos Computer Club,
Conference (Call for papers, contact, etc.)
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Chaos Computer Club (CCC) |
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publications/research 21 November 2005 |
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Terror Australis:
Security, Australia and the 'War on Terror' Discourse |
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Since September 11, 2001 there has been an intense normalising practice in place with regard to Australian security. From changes in airport security procedures to the ASIO home raids that took place across Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in October and November 2002, it is argued that there must be 'a further lowering of the risk tolerance threshold'. This essay critically assesses how social and political life in Australia has become reconceptualized to include the imminent possibilities of terrorism, the need for eternal vigilance and the acceptance that certain sacrifices need to be made to protect the greater community. |
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November 2005
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Full-text
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Katrina Lee Koo, Borderlands Journal, Vol 4(1), 2005. |
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campaigns/open letters 06 December 2005 |
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Open Letter to the European Parliament on Data Retention |
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Tomorrow is the dealine for amendments to the European
Parliament's report on the EU proposals for the mandatory data
retention of all telehone and internet usage records by service
providers. As drafted, the proposals and the EP's report mean that
all traffic data would wil have to be kept for two years for law
enforcement purposes. A coalition of civil society groups has
written to MEPs urging them to reject proposals. |
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Open letter
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Privacy International, EDRI and others |
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publications/research 06 December 2005 |
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La biométrie: des implications majeures
pour nos droits et libertés [Biometrics: ipmlications for rights and liberties] |
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Mémoire présenté à la
Commission de l’éthique de la science et
de la technologie du Québec |
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November 2005
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full-text,
Ligue website
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Ligue des droits et libertés |
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meetings/conferences 15 December 2005 |
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Order and Violence: Delimiting Control - CALL FOR PAPERS - British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control - Easter Conference, Hull 2006 |
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The ‘war on terror’ and threats to civil liberties - State and anti-state terror; Privatization and ‘othering’ of state violence -- The politics of mass incarceration: Ideologies of violence and control; ‘Ironies of social control’: evoking ‘evil’; Acculturation to the ‘new realities’: contemporary ‘truth’ telling games; Conscientious objectors and civil disobedience; Ideologies and identities -- Violence and control in everyday life: ‘Gender’, ‘race’ and violence; Cultural criminology: a new approach or an under-theorised melting-pot?; Cultures of behavioural control in the UK: from the cradle to the grave. Please send abstracts to: a.ward@hull.ac.uk and/or abeckmann@lincoln.ac.uk
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Hull, UK 19-21 April 2006
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European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control |
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links to ECLN groups 19 December 2005 |
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Privacy International |
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PI is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations |
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December 2005
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PI website
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publications/research 29 December 2005 |
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MISC - Multi-systems & Internet Security Cookbook |
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Launch issue of a new bi-monthly German language computer magazine offering advice on practical defences to interception and laws relating to security. Concentrates on the limitations of anti-virus programmes, intrusion prevention and detection systems and personal firewalls. Regular features cover new technological developments in IT security. Order: redaktion@miscmag.de |
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December 2005
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MiscMag
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MiscMag |
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campaigns/open letters 05 January 2006 |
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ACLU Calls for Investigation Into President’s Illegal Surveillance of U.S. Citizens |
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The ACLU is running a series of adverts as part of its call for a special counsel to be appointed to determine whether President Bush violated federal wiretapping laws by authorizing illegal surveillance. The two that have run already compare George W. Bush to Richard M. Nixon. |
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ACLU adverts
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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publications/research 23 January 2006 |
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 |
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The Human Rights Watch World Report 2006 contains information on human rights developments in more than 60 countries in 2005. |
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January 2006
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HRW World Report 2006
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Human Rights Watch |
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meetings/conferences 23 January 2006 |
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Crime and punishment in a market society: how just is the criminal justice system? |
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In her speech Vivien Stern will argue that "Criminal punishment has penetrated deeply into social policy and is being used disproportionately against the poor. With the entry of the free market into the delivery of punishment the possibilities for expanding the control of people seen as risky is limitless. This will not produce the safer society we all seek." [1-2pm, free of charge, no need to register in advance. Please arrive early] |
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Somerset House, London 9 February 2006
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BIHR lunchtime lectures
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Vivien Stern, British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) |
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campaigns/open letters 04 February 2006 |
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No.38 |
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The bill will next get a third and final reading in the Lords on the 6th of February. After that the bill will return to the House of Commons where MPs will vote to accept or reject the Lords’ amendments. The government only won the last vote on the bill in the Commons by 31 votes. There were 19 MPs from opposition parties that did not vote during that last vote. Acceptance of peers’ amendments looks achievable in light of the government’s defeat this week, when MPs voted to accept Lords’ amendments to the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. |
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Newsletter,
NO2ID website
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NO2ID campaign |
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campaigns/open letters 17 February 2006 |
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Approvato in gran segreto il recepimento della direttiva 2004/48. Ennesimo ampliamento dei poteri delle major dell’audiovisivo. |
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The Italian government approved a decree transposing Directive 2000/48/CE on intellectual property rights into Italian law "in great secret", using an "urgent procedure" at a time when the legislative chambers have broken up for elections. ALCEI notes that the decree targets ISPs "putting them in the position of having to sacrifice their users to avoid receiving heavy compensation claims" as "intermediaries", among other concerns such as the burden of proof to be employed. |
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Statement criticising the secret approval of the decree,
Text of Directive 2000/48/CE (it),
Decree transposing Directive 2000/48/CE (it),
ALCEI - Electronic Frontiers italy
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ALCEI |
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meetings/conferences 01 March 2006 |
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Turning the tables on the state - achieving human and social rights in the 21st century |
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Chair: Corinna Lotz, secretary AWTW; Speakers: Bill Bowring, Professor of Human Rights & International Law, London
Metropolitan University; John McDonnell MP, chair of the Campaign Group of Socialist MPs; Saleh Mamon, Campaign Against Criminalising Communities; Glenn Rikowski, School of Education, Northampton University; Paul Feldman, co-author of A World to Win; Plus speaker from NO2ID |
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Diorama Arts Centre D2, Regents Place, London NW1 11 March 2006
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Registration
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A World to Win sponsored conference |
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publications/research 01 March 2006 |
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Human rights: a broken promise |
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Since 11 September 2001, the UK authorities have passed a series of new laws, even though the UK already had some of the toughest “anti-terrorism” laws in Europe. These laws contain sweeping provisions that contravene human rights law, and their implementation has led to serious abuses of human rights. |
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23 February 2006
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AI report
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Amnesty International |
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meetings/conferences 01 March 2006 |
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Is it time to repeal the antiterrorism laws? |
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Speakers: Michael Mansfield QC from Tooks Chambers and Gareth Pierce from Birnberg Pierce Solicitors,
Solicitor for Moazzam Begg |
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Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2 9th March 2006
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Flyer
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Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in association with Tooks Chambers |
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meetings/conferences 10 March 2006 |
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Crime, Justice and Surveillance |
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In the UK the last decade has seen an unprecedented deployment of surveillance technologies and
practices in the name of crime control. Drug testing, electronic monitoring, intelligence led policing
initiatives, DNA testing and video monitoring have all expanded rapidly. These developments are not
unique to the UK, and this conference seeks to explore the British experience in the context of
developments in Europe and beyond and to consider the social, political and legal issues that arise
from the expansion of surveillance. The conference is inter-disciplinary with contributions from
sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, criminologists, socio-legal scholars, historians, and social
scientists researching surveillance practices and technologies. |
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Sheffield, UK 5-6 April 2006
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Conference flyer,
Surveillance-and-society.org
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Sheffield Centre for Criminological Research & Surveillance and society |
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publications/research 10 March 2006 |
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Extraordinary Rendition |
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New Issue (No.89) of The Spokesman - contents: Art, Truth and Politics (Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize Lecture); Precedents for Torture (Naomi Klein); Rendition is Abduction (Johan Steyn
interviewed by Jon Snow); "US does not Condone" (Condeleezza Rice, Andrew Tyrie MP),
Extraordinary Rendition (Ken Coates); Who Fooled America? (Lawrence Wilkerson); American Prisoners in Europe (Human Rights, Watch Council of Europe); Plus Case Studies: Maher Arar's story and others |
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2006
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Editorial and full contents
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The Spokesman |
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meetings/conferences 26 March 2006 |
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The Regulation of migration, asylum and movement in the "new Europe" - call for papers |
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The impact of the 2004 Madrid and 2005 London bombings brought a new
and fiercely regulatory extension to the movement of people in the context of
the ‘war on terror’. Other events, such as the assassination of the film director
Van Gogh in the Netherlands or the riots at the suburbs of Paris, brought up
new questions about immigration policies and models of integration in Europe.
Ironically, these policies and models have consolidated at the very time that
the European Union is going through unprecedented expansion to include
member states from the former Eastern bloc. In turn, expansion has revived
theoretical and political debates about ‘old’ and ‘new’ immigration and modes
of social control or conflict. |
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Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece 31 August - 3 September 2006
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Call for papers
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34th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control |
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meetings/conferences 18 April 2006 |
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Torture & ‘Security’ Agencies in the ‘War on Terror’ |
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Recent revelations and allegations about extra-ordinary rendition suggest complicity
by European governments in ‘torture flights’. Such involvement has precedents in
British and American foreign policy, dating back to their involvement in Afghanistan
and the former Yugoslavia. Today the problem goes far beyond torture flights:
‘security’ agencies in Europe have a broader complicity in global torture through
cooperation with repressive regimes, e.g. by exchanging information on dissidents,
deporting them to torture, using the consequent ‘information’ to intern or prosecute individuals in Europe, etc. In some cases these agencies are targeting movements
which were previously encouraged as means to counter Left or nationalist politics,
before the ‘blow-back’ led to violent attacks in Europe. |
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Garden Court Chambers, london 22 April 2006
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Invitation
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Human Rights & Social Justice Research Institute & others |
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meetings/conferences 18 April 2006 |
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OSCE International NGO Conference |
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Workshops: Security Concept OSCE; Human Trafficking; Small Arms; Racism (TBC); Kosovo; Drugs trafficking and use; Kaukasus; Dialogue among religions; Fight against Terrorism and Respect for Human Rights; Future of the OSCE. |
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Palace d’Egmont, Brussels 16-17 May 2006
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Conference website and programme etc.
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OSCE NGO |
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campaigns/open letters 21 April 2006 |
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Renew for freedom |
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A broad coalition of opponents to the ID card in the UK is encouraging people to renew their passport in May 2006 to avoid avoid fingerprinting and the ID card. |
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Renew for freedom website,
How to do it - factsheet
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NO2ID + supporting groups |
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publications/research 25 April 2006 |
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Arming Big Brother
The EU’s Security Research Programme |
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The European Union is preparing to spend up to €1 billion per year on new ‘research’ into surveillance and control technologies, according to Arming Big Brother, a new report by the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Statewatch. “Arms industry lobbying is leading to the creation of a powerful new internal security-industrial complex,” says Ben Hayes, author of the report. Arming Big Brother lifts the lid on the secretive committees and arms industry lobbying that led to the creation of the European Security Research Programme (ESRP). |
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April 2006
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Press release,
Full-text of report
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Statewatch & Transnational Institute |
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meetings/conferences 08 May 2006 |
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'Kick Control' The world championship: an obsession with 'security' (Die Fußball-WM als Einfallstor für Abschottung, Ausgrenzung und nationalen Sicherheitswahn) |
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The conference will inform on the planned security measures for the world championship in Germany and whom the 'preventative measures' will target. Discussions will also focus on link between security measures and urban regeneration in Berlin, and between growing social insecurity resulting from the breakdown of the welfare state and its relationship to an increase in the 'internal security' discourse. |
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Berlin 10 May 2006
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Grundrechtekomitee press release (DE),
Conference flyer
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Grundrechtekomitee |
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meetings/conferences 08 May 2006 |
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Homeland and Border Security: Securing Our Future |
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"This event is aimed at the entire community working towards safeguarding the UK against organised crime, cybercrime and terrorism of all kinds." The conference is supported/sponsored by a host of private companies involved in the private security industry. |
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QEII Conference Centre, London 4 July 2006
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Conference website
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GovNet events |
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campaigns/open letters 15 May 2006 |
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Civil liberties monitoring project for the world-championship |
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The Cologne-based Grundrechtekomitee has initiated a monitoring project for infringement of basic rights and civil liberties at the world championship, and is asking citizens and football fans to pass on their relevant experiences, to be compiled in a report. You can mail info@grundrechtekomitee.de, if you know of demonstrations being banned with the reasoning they represent a security risk for the championship, or know of control and police measures implemented in public spaces, if you see soldiers taking on police functions, or if you have been affected by repressive measures yourself, as a football fan, for example. |
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Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie,
Background article (in German)
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publications/research 19 May 2006 |
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Statewatch observatory on "rendition" |
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The Observatory includes extensive documentation with the full-text of 173 documents submitted so far to the ongoing European Parliament inquiry (TDIP) into these matters - many of them published for the first time. Among the documents are detailed submissions on the inquiries in Italy (the Milan abduction), Spain (rendition flights), Canada (the Meher Arar public inquiry) and Ireland (the use of Shannon airport) as well as submissions from 26 national parliaments in Europe. Also included are reports issued by the European Parliament, Council of Europe and NGOs. |
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May 2006
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Statewatch observatory
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Statewatch |
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publications/research 19 May 2006 |
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Policing the world cup in Germany - an own goal against fundamental rights |
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From 9 June to 9 July 2006, Germany will live in a sort of state of emergency. 100,000 police officers, 10,000 private security employees, an unknown number of secret intelligence officers and 7,000 soldiers are called to watch over the “security” of the football world championship. Not only the stadiums, but also vast parts of the inner cities will turn into police control areas and testing grounds for the products of the security industry - EU wide exchange of personal data, reintroduction of controls at internal EU-borders etc. seem to be normal. 250,000 persons who will enter the stadiums as journalists, cleaning people or sausage sellers had to undergo a security check by the Bundeskriminalamt (federal criminal police office) and the Verfassungsschutz (the internal secret intelligence). The world championship turns out to be a big advertising action for the internal deployment of the military, which during the championship will “only” provide technical assistance. However, the Interior minister is calling for a change of the constitution to allow the military to act as police. |
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Germany May 2006
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Information leaflet (German),
Summary of world cup security preparations (CILIP, English),
send human rights infringements to info@grundrechtekomitee.de
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Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie |
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publications/research 20 May 2006 |
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FoeBuD Newsletter |
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The "Association for the Promotion of Public Data Traffic" publishes and organises events on freedom of information and computer technology. Their site contains a wealth of useful information on new control techologies and legislation, such as RFID chips, CCTV surveillance and general data protection and civil liberties issues. The April newsletter informs about their anti-RFID campaign, the world cup, CCTV surveillance at universities, amongst others. |
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April 2006
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Newsletter archive,
FoeBuD
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Verein zur Förderung des öffentlichen bewegten und unbewegten Datenverkehrs e.V. |
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meetings/conferences 21 May 2006 |
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Dutch Social Forum |
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Following the World Social Forum and the European Social Forum, the Dutch Social Forum is an open meeting place for the exchange of ideas, the creation and the strengthening of networks and a breeding ground for action. The DSF aims to unite as many people as possible who want to work on a different world, and a different Holland. |
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Nijmegen. 21/05/2006
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DSF website
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publications/research 21 May 2006 |
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WM 2006: Die Welt ueberwacht von Freunden. (World Cup 2006: the world put under surveillance by friends) |
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This excellent edition of the German language journal published by the the police and civil liberties watchdog Buergerrecht & Polizei/CILIP, focuses on security measures and police cooperation implemented prior to, during and after the world cup. Contains overview and analysis of police powers and surveillance methods and critical football fans report on the repression they face, amongst others. Non-theme articles include an analysis of the current trials taking place in Genoa, dealing with the 2001 summit violence, and how Morocco is taking on the role of a police assistant in Ceuta and Melilla. |
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Berlin 01/04/2006
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CILIP,
Order details,
English summaries
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CILIP |
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meetings/conferences 31 May 2006 |
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The uses and abuses of intelligence in the global war on terror |
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Speaker: David Rose (investigative journalist and author of Guantanamo: America¹s War on Human Rights). Chair: Frances Webber (Immigration barrister, Garden Court Chambers). The seminar will be a discussion not a debate aimed at facilitating a genuine exchange of views and ideas between speakers and participants. |
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London 1pm, Monday 5 June
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Institute of Race Relations events
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IRR lunchtime seminars |
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demonstrations 08 June 2006 |
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Emergency Demonstration: Breaking the Spider¹s Web
- End torture flights; Properly investigate the allegations |
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Liberty is demanding an independent inquiry into UK assistance with CIA "torture flights" in light of the damning Council of Europe report released
on the 7th June. The report concludes that CIA flights carrying terror suspects likely to face torture have been given access to UK airspace and airports. It states that there is a "spider's web" of rendition flights spun
across the globe by the CIA. Since November 2005, Liberty has warned the Government that the UK will
breach domestic and international law if CIA ³extraordinary rendition flights have been allowed to land and re-fuel in Britain. In response to the
new findings, Liberty and Reprieve are holding an emergency demonstration to
demand an end to torture flights on 25 June, the eve of the United Nations
Day Against Torture. Please wear black... |
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United States Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1 Sunday 25th June, 12 noon
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Liberty: rendition,
CoE report,
CoE ''spider’s web'' map
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Liberty |
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meetings/conferences 19 June 2006 |
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Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected |
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The government is introducing radical changes in children’s services aimed at improving early identification and intervention with children thought to be at risk of failing to reach their potential. They place a particular emphasis on identifying children who might become delinquent or achieve poorly at school. As part of this policy, several databases are being set up which will contain extensive personal information about children and their families. The amount of data collected will radically alter the privacy of family life and many concerns have been raised about the potential harmful effects of such large-scale surveillance. |
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Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Building, LSE 27 June 2006, 2-5 pm
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Conference website
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LSE & ARCH |
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meetings/conferences 19 June 2006 |
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Book Launch: Human Rights in the Global Information Society |
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The book is edited by Rikke Frank Jørgensen and the contributors examine the links between information technology and human rights - freedom of expression, access to information, privacy, discrimination, gender equality, intellectual property, political participation, and freedom of assembly in the context of information and communication technology - exploring the ways in which the information society can either advance human rights around the world or threaten them. The presentation will be followed by a keynote from Gus Hosein, author of the chapter on Privacy. |
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Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen 23 June 2006, 13:00-15:30
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Details
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Danish Institute for Human Rights & Danish WSIS |
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meetings/conferences 29 June 2006 |
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Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror |
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How should we respond to the attacks on our civil rights, refugee rights and our multicultural society - carried out in the name of national security? Join leading campaigners, lawyers and thinkers in debating how we can defend our liberties and our communities... Panel discussions: The impact of anti-terror powers in the UK; The attack on multiculturalism; Detention and incarceration; Combating racial violence; Civil liberties: the racial dimension; Liberty and the global war on terror; Campaigning against deportations; Defending international conventions |
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Conway Hall, Central London 16 September 2006
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Programme and booking information
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Institute of Race Relations |
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campaigns/open letters 02 July 2006 |
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Call to abolish secret service after renewed civil liberties scandal |
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This open letter by three main German civil liberties organisations (see below) renews the long-standing civil society demand to abolish the German secret service (Verfassungsschutz) on grounds of its inherent unconstitutionality. This recent campaign is triggered by yet again another scandal uncovering illegal spying operations by the German service against socially active individuals, this time targeting university professor Peter Grottian, active in the Berlin social forum and victim of surveillance for the last three years. This press release provides background information on the spying scandal and the undemocratic and unconstitutional working methods of the regional secret service of Berlin, and calls for the abolition of all regional and the national secret services, which have no legitimacy in a democracy. |
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Press release,
Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie e.V.,
Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e.V.,
Humanistische Union
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German civil liberties coalition |
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publications/research 12 August 2006 |
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Informationen |
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This monthly newsletter of the German civil liberties organisation includes a survey of the world cup and the infringement of civil rights it brought about: excessive data collection, systematic surveillance, preventative arrests, repressive police tactics and the planned increase of law enforcement powers are highlighted. |
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July 2006
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Download newsletter,
Home page
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Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie |
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publications/research 13 October 2006 |
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Conference report: Electronic health cards and the capitalist-technological-medical complex |
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From 22-24 September 2006, the German civil liberties organisation Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokatie held a conference on recent developments in the health care system with view to civil liberties and human rights implications. The conference put forward a fundamental critique of electronic health cards soon to be introduced in Germany. But not only data protection is at risk, the conference reports that bureaucratisation and economisation increasingly determine the doctor-patient relationship and that health is becoming an unequally distributed commodity. A conference report in German can be requested by mail: info@grundrechtekomitee.de |
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Berlin
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The e-card: big promise & disappontment,
Conference outline,
Home Page Grundrechtekomitee
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Grundrechtekomitee |
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campaigns/open letters 19 October 2006 |
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Ottawa Principles on
Anti-terrorism and Human Rights |
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In June 2006, experts on human rights and terrorism met in their individual capacities at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada to develop the following Principles on Anti-terrorism and Human Rights. They shared a common view that the preservation of human rights – not least the right to life – is the central motivator of anti-terrorism. They also believed that human rights constitute an elemental and immutable constraint on how anti-terrorism is conducted. The struggle for collective security must not be an assault on the individual’s life, liberty and security of the person. This document is the product of their deliberations. |
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The Ottawa Principles,
Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism Colloquium, Ottawa
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University of Ottawa colloqium |
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meetings/conferences 20 October 2006 |
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Reclaiming Our Rights |
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The government has been attacking our basic democratic rights through unjust principles: a presumption of guilt, punishment without trial, and pre-emptive restraints on liberty. These principles link diverse measures and pretexts. Through ASBOs the definition of ‘anti-social behaviour’ has been broadened to prohibit activities which would not otherwise be illegal, even to criminalise individuals who contravene an ASBO. ‘Anti-stalker’ laws have been used to prohibit and criminalise political protest against companies. Having broadened the definition of terrorism, ‘anti-terror’ laws are used to deter, suppress and criminalise political activities. |
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London Metropolitan University 2 December 2006
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Programme
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CAMPACC, Institute for Human Rights and Social Justice (London Metropolitan University) and others |
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meetings/conferences 04 January 2007 |
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (AUDIO FILES): CIA flights, extraordinary renditions, secret prisons. American policy and European complicity |
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Proceedings from conference organised by Nordic Green Left and United Left Groups in the European Parliament and Rifondazione Comunista, Italy. [Convegno dal titolo "Voli della Cia, extraordinary renditions, carceri segrete. Strategia americana e complicità europea"; audio files in Italian, German and English] |
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Milan 16 December 2006
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Audio files
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RadioRadicale.it |
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meetings/conferences 06 January 2007 |
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The European Constitution - Critiques and Alternatives
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Germany has taken on the EU presidency for the first half of 2007 and has announced to push for ratification of the EU Constitution by the end of 2008 (during the French presidency). Attac Germany is holding an international conference to discuss its ideas about an alternative constitution and define its content in a common statement. Discussion blocks will include: debates on what a constitution should contain, democratic participation in EU institutions and neoliberalism in relation to basic rights and economic and social policy. For more information contact Regina Viotto, regina.viotto (at) uni-bielefeld.de |
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Hanover, Germany 23-24 June 2007
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Conference announcement, Attac-Germany,
EALDH
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Attac-Germany & EALDH |
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meetings/conferences 12 January 2007 |
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World Social Forum 2007 |
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The 7th World Social Forum (WSF) will be held from 20 until 25 January 2007 at the Moi International Sports Center Kasarani, Nairobi and is expected to host up to 150,000 delegates from all over the world. Over 1,000 activities will take place in the 106 spaces provided at the venue. Rallying around the call of Another World Is Possible, the World Social Forum has placed social justice, international solidarity, gender equality, peace and defence of the environment on the agenda of the world’s peoples. From its modest origins in Porto Alegre in the year 2001, to Mumbai, Bamako, Caracas, Karachi and now Nairobi, the forces and the contingents of the World Social Forum have collectively expanded the democratic spaces of those seeking concrete, sustainable and progressive alternatives to neo-liberalism and imperialist globalisation. |
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Nairobi 20/01/2007
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WSF website
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campaigns/open letters 02 February 2007 |
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“Decreto Gentiloni” e contrasto alla pedopornografia & La violenza giovanile e il caso Google: ennesimo pretesto per invocare censura e repressione |
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Two statements by ALCEI, which works in defence of Internet freedom in Italy. The first criticises the establishment, as a measure implementing the law against prostitution, pornography, sexual tourism involving children and new forms of slavery, of the “National centre to combat paedopornography” to collect information, investigate people suspected of divulging material with paedopornographic content and draw up blacklists of websites and illegal contents, which ISPs will have to block or remove within six hours of communication. “Experience has amply shown how this kind of measures is ineffective in the ‘protection of minors’, in the prevention or repression of violence, etcetera, while it opens up the road to all sorts of censorship, prohibition and intrusiveness that can be indiscriminately applied to any kind of ‘unwelcome’ opinion.”
The second expresses alarm about the debate that followed the publication on Youtube of images of a disabled child being ill-treated by classmates, in which responsibility was apportioned to “Internet” rather than the culprits, and there were renewed calls for “censorship and repression”, with ISPs and search engines singled out as targets for punishment (and Google facing possible penal proceedings in this case) if they fail to monitor and censor contents. |
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“Decreto Gentiloni” e contrasto alla pedopornografia (Italian),
La violenza giovanile e il caso Google: ennesimo pretesto per invocare censura e repressione,
The "Google case" in Italy: one more excuse for censorship and repression (English),
ALCEI website
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ALCEI, Associazione per la Libertà nelle Comunicazioni Elettroniche Interattive |
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campaigns/open letters 09 February 2007 |
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Serbia rejects biometric ID cards |
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A grass-roots campaign in Serbia successfully pressed the Serbian government to back off on a plan to make biometric data compulsory in the country's new ID cards. The decision followed a pitched battle prior to the 21 January 2007 election as opponents criticized the accompanying plan for a centralized database of citizen information and the taking of fingerprints. |
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EDRI-gram - Number 5.2, 31 January 2007
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European Digital Rights |
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meetings/conferences 09 February 2007 |
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Autonomy: Fencing in Freedoms on the Electronic Frontier |
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We are moving to a world of ubiquitous surveillance, faster than anyone could have imagined. More ominously, the computers that take charge of the world, aptly foretold in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, are here. Meet Hal, your new cell phone, that will decide when it will turn itself on and on off, and when it will report your geographical location to the authorities. Meet Hal, your new refrigerator that reorders the food as it expires…or not, depending on what your health care provider stipulates. Meet Hal, the robot that is looking after your mother in her assisted living apartment, nagging her to take her pills, monitoring her blood sugar, her caloric intake, and her mood swings. Meet Hal, the resource manager that operates on behalf of your utility company to ensure you do not over-consume. Meet Hal, the friendly update manager who takes over your computer to make sure you have the latest anti-virus protection, the latest digital rights management software to ensure you only do what you are allowed to do with the music you buy. Who is in control of this new world? |
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Montreal, Canada 1-4 May 2007
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CFP2007 website
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Computers, Freedom and Privacy - CFP2007 |
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campaigns/open letters 09 February 2007 |
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Petition the UK Prime Minister to Scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy |
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The idea of tracking every vehicle at all times is sinister and wrong. Road pricing is already here with the high level of taxation on fuel. The more you travel - the more tax you pay. It will be an unfair tax on those who live apart from families and poorer people who will not be able to afford the high monthly costs. Please Mr Blair - forget about road pricing and concentrate on improving our roads to reduce congestion. |
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Petition
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Prime minister's office - petitions |
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publications/research 24 May 2007 |
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UK: racism and the state 2007 |
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On 16 September 2006, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) held a unique conference in London on ‘Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror’, attended by over 250 participants, including human rights activists, community workers, lawyers, students, radical academics and solidarity groups. The April 2007 edition of the IRR journal Race & Class features extracts from the pioneering conference, including speeches and talks by Gareth Peirce, A. Sivanandan, Salma Yaqoob, Tony Bunyan, David Rose, Victoria Brittain and Herman Ouseley. Together with a range of other contributors from community organisations around the UK, they dissect the recent media attacks on multiculturalism and document the impact of the ‘war on terror’, both on local communities and internationally. |
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April 2007
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Institute of Race Relations
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Race & Class - conference special |
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campaigns/open letters 29 May 2007 |
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LEGAL EMERGENCY SERVICE AT THE G8 SUMMIT 2007 |
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On the occasion of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, extensive restrictions of fundamental rights as well as civil rights and liberties are to be feared. The federal government and the police already conjure up violent conflicts in the run-up to the summit. Doing this, they aim at preventing legitimate and many-voiced protests on the spot or at least to intimidate and criminalise the protesters. The fundamental rights of freedom of opinion and freedom of assembly will have to be defended in the court room, but also on the streets and during meetings and demonstrations. For these purposes, the Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV) together with local associations of criminal defence lawyers and committees of inquiry organise a legal emergency service in the run-up to and during the G8 summit. For the duration of three weeks, an office will be established in Rostock that will ensure on-site counselling and legal protection in cases of arrests, restrictions of the freedom of assembly, bullying at the arrival etc. The telephone number of the Legal Team during the G8 summit is: 0049 (0)3820 4768111. Anybody in need of legal help during the summit is advised to call here, the information will be then transmitted to the lawyers. Please communicate the number.
Also: press information service concerning the protests: +49 (0)1577-4704760 and +49 (0)163-6195151 |
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Contact,
RAV website
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Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV) |
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publications/research 29 May 2007 |
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Fundamental Rights Report 2007 (German) |
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Since 1997, nine civil liberties and human rights organisations publish an annual human rights report on Germany, in which they test the German government’s conduct against every legally binding human rights and civil liberties provision laid down in the German Constitution. With a plethora of examples of state surveillance, infringements, discrimination and violations of High Court decisions, the year 2006 will also be known as a year in which fundamental rights were systematically violated by the authorities. The legitimate use of ‘torture’ debate, the use of emetics against foreigners, indiscriminate data collection during the world cup, the surveillance and interception of communication of civil rights activists, the electronic health card linking sensitive data between authorities, US-EU data transfers, unlawful detention and deportation to torturing states, police violence, employment bans, eroding the protection of journalists’ sources, unlawful police raids…the list of fundamental civil rights violations seems endless. The Fundamental Rights Report is written and compiled by the following organisations, which have announced the focus of the next year’s report will be the criminalisation and curtailment of G8 protests: Humanistische Union, Gustav Heinemann-Initiative, Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, Bundesarbeitskreis Kritischer Juragruppen, Pro Asyl, Republikanischer Anwaltsverein, Vereinigung demokratischer Juristinnen und Juristen, Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte, Neue Richtervereinigung. |
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May 2007
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Commentary on the report,
Press release Humanistische Union,
List of Contents (German),
Order online
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“Internationale Liga für Menschenrechte” et al. |
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demonstrations 29 May 2007 |
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Antiracist G8 'action and events' calendar |
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Between 2 and 7 June, thousands of refugees, migrants and activist will protest against the G8. In this context , mass actions and information events will take place under the slogans: ‘For Global Freedom of Movement’ and ‘Equal Rights for All’. Below you find links to the 'choreography of resistance', and events calendar. CALL OUT DECEMBER 2005: "We are here, because you are destroying our countries." This central slogan of the ‘Caravan for the rights of refugees and migrants’ explicitly links capitalist destruction on the one hand to flight and migration on the other. The G8-governments - as well as the WTO, IMF and World Bank - are not only responsible for neocolonial relations of exploitation; they also increasingly rely on and further the intensification of processes of selection and exclusion in the Northern parts of the globe, the intensification of legal, social and political hierarchies. It is these and other developments - whether in the North or the South - that lead us to speak of a system of global Apartheid. [...] |
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Heiligendamm/Rostock, Germany 2-7 June 2007
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Updated events calendar,
Working Group Migration of the protest networks,
Caravan of Refugees and Migrants tours Germany
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campaigns/open letters 26 June 2007 |
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Press Statement on G8 summit in Rostock |
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During the G8 summit, held in Heiligendamm from the 6th to the 8th of June 2007, a great
number of German lawyers belonging to the RAV (Association of Republican Lawyers), the
Strafverteidigervereinigung von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (association of defence lawyers)
as well as lawyers belonging to the EDL (European Democratic Lawyers) and to the Legal
Team Europa have committed themselves to defend the fundamental rights of those who had
come from all over Europe to express their dissent. |
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EDL home page,
EDL Press statement (PDF)
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European Democratic Lawyers |
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meetings/conferences 27 June 2007 |
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Privacy Rights In A World Under Surveillance |
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A one-day workshop organized by the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) in cooperation with Canadian and international civil rights and privacy organizations ahead of the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Montreal. Panellists: Simon Davies – Privacy International/Ben Hayes – Statewatch/Gus Hosein –Privacy International/Allison Knight –Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)/Philippa Lawson – Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)/Toshimaru Ogura – Toyama University, Japanese human rights and privacy activist/Katitza Rodriguez – Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility – Peru/Richard Rosenberg – Freedom of Information and Privacy Association BC (FIPA)/Jay Stanley – American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)/Barry Steinhardt –ACLU/Dr.Helen Wallace (GeneWatch-UK)/Maureen Webb – International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG). |
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Sheraton Hotel, Montreal, Canada 25 September 2007
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Details
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International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG) |
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campaigns/open letters 21 July 2007 |
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"Melting Pot controllato dal SISMI" |
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Melting Pot responds to extracts of SISMI (military secret service) documents in Repubblica newspaper that reveal the surveillance of Melting Pot, naming its members, among other NGOs. Notes that SISMI is arbitrarily turning professionals into suspects and that "it would be even more serious if the list of names compiled in the report... had been followed by the violation of the privacy and activity of these persons contributors of the Progetto Melting Pot Europa". These developments followed a resolution by the Italian Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (CSM) criticising surveillance activity targeting judges. |
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"Melting Pot controllato dal SISMI",
CSM resolution
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Melting Pot editorial board |
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campaigns/open letters 24 August 2007 |
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German terrorist legislation criminalises academics |
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A wave of protest is growing against the arrest by German authorities of academics accused of belonging to a terror group because they engage in research on urban gentrification and are 'intellectually capable' of drafting texts claiming responsibility for arson attacks, which law enforcement apparently had difficulties deciphering. Three of the four arrested were beaten during their arrest, and all four are held under conditions severely infringing their civil rights, due to the draconian terrorist legislation provision Article 129a of the German Criminal Code. The campaign for their release set up a website detailing growing international protest by civil rights activists and the academic community. They demand the immediate release of the prisoners, the cessation of the § 129a proceedings, and the repeal of §§ 129, 129a and 129b of the German criminal code. |
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Campaign website,
Guardian article by Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen,
Open letter by international academics to the German prosecution
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Einstellung des §129a-Verfahrens sofort! |
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campaigns/open letters 24 August 2007 |
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Internet users criticise Google's data greed and call for anonymous services |
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The Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung (German Working Group on Data Retention), an association of civil rights campaigners, data protection activists and Internet users, sent an open letter to Google today. The group warns that Google's blanket retention of users Internet protocol addresses allows tracking every mouse click and every search made by a user for months. "The anonimisation of personally identifiable data after '18 to 24 months' as announced by Google is entirely inadequate", explains the NGO's legal expert Patrick Breyer. "According to German and European law the systematic retention of personally identifiable data on all users is prohibited." |
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More information on the campaign website
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Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung |
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campaigns/open letters 24 August 2007 |
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Lobbying' Awards 2007 - Call for Nominations |
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This year you can nominate for two categories. The 'Worst EU Lobbying' Award for the lobbyist, company or lobby group that in 2007 has employed the most deceptive, misleading, or otherwise problematic lobbying tactics in their attempts to influence EU decision-making. And the special 'Worst EU Greenwash' Award for the company whose advertising, PR and lobbying lingo is most at odds with the real environmental impacts of their core business activities. Until 15 September 2007 you can submit your nominations on http://www.worstlobby.eu/. In 2006 the ‘Worst EU Lobbying’ Award was won by oil giant ExxonMobil for its secretive funding of climate-skeptic think tanks. In 2005 the prize went to the bogus Campaign for Creativity, a front group used by large IT companies to lobby for software patents and intellectual property rights. |
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Worst EU Lobbying and Greenwash Awards 2007
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Corporate Europe Observatory, Friends of the Earth Europe, LobbyControl, Spinwatch |
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meetings/conferences 20 September 2007 |
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24th Chaos Communication Congress: Call for Participation |
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The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). The 24C3s slogan is Volldampf voraus!— the German equivalent of “full steam ahead” – a particular request for talks and projects featuring forward looking hands-on topics. CCC has always encouraged creative and unorthodox interaction with technology and society, in the good tradition of the real meaning of “hacking”. This year’s congress introduces a new category for talks called “Making”. This category is all about making and breaking things and the wonderful stuff you can build in your basement or garage. Most welcome are submissions dealing with the latest in electronics, 3D-fabbing, climate-change survival technology, robots and drones, steam machines, alternative transportation tools and guerilla-style knitting. |
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Berlin, Germany 27 - 30 December 2007
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More information
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Chaos Computer Club |
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meetings/conferences 20 September 2007 |
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Information event on Article 129a terrorist procedures in Berlin and Germany's security politics |
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At the end of July 2007, seven persons, accused of membership of a terrorist organisation, were arrested in Berlin, Germany. Three are charged with arson against army vehicles, the other four of some form of “intellectual culpability”, whereby their scientific publications critical of gentrification and security state features are used to construct a terrorist organisation. Their arrests form the current highpoint in the general criminalisation of critical science and protest movements reminiscent of the 1980s. This info-event will inform about this case but also provide information on the history of Germany’s anti-terrorist Article 129a Criminal Code and its political use, more security laws in the planning, and asks what the implications of the gradual erosion of civil liberties means for state critics today. |
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Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany. 30/09/2007, 11.00 – 13.30
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RAV,
Campaign to stop the terrorist proceedings
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Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein e.V. (RAV) |
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publications/research 12 November 2007 |
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Escape from Tripoli Report on the Conditions of Migrants in Transit in Libya |
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"The deaths in the desert and in the Channel of Sicily, the tortures and rapes in
detention centres funded by Italy, deportations to the Sahara, collective
refoulements, the repatriation of refugees on flights paid by Rome, deportations
from Lampedusa, murders in police stations, the abuses perpetrated by passeurs and
racist attacks in Tripoli. Everything that must not be known about the country to
which Italy and the EU entrust the control of the southern border, on the eve of Frontex patrol operations in Libya in 2008, when refoulements at sea will become the norm." |
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October 2007
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Fortress Europe,
Report (PDF)
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Fortress Europe. The observatory on victims of migrations |
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campaigns/open letters 12 November 2007 |
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Campaign against the “11th European Police Congress“, 29th-30th of January 2008 in Berlin. Against a “Global Security Architecture”, for more security-critical behaviour! |
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Police investigation methods and the global security apparatus are increasingly violating basic democratic and human rights. Police and intelligence services want to attain unrestricted access to personal data and internet user profiles. The “European Police Congress”, a forum where politicians, police authorities, intelligence services, the military and the security industry meet to discuss the implementation of new measures for data collection and prosecution facilitates the increasing social control and authoritarian state tendencies within the EU. The 2008 Congress takes place under the motto “Information technology – investigation – operation”. On Tuesday, 29 January 2008, Schäuble, the German Minister of Internal Affairs, will speak at the “Forum of European Ministers of Internal Affairs”. A coalition of civil liberties and social justice groups is organising protest actions, with the aim to reach broad segments of society. This recent initiative is seen as a potential extension of already existing campaigns: against data retention, against anti-terrorist laws, the EU border agency Frontex and the repressive EU migration regime, against police racism and militarism. |
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11th European Police Congress home page,
More information about the campaign (English),
More information about the campaign (German)
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Six Hills |
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publications/research 29 February 2008 |
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"En Movemento" |
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A new monthly civil rights newspaper produced by the Galician civil rights organisation, Movemento polos dereitos civis. |
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Galicia (Spain) November 2007 - ongoing
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MPDC,
En Movemento back issues
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Movemento polos dereitos civis |
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demonstrations 09 July 2008 |
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Dosta… Basta … manipolazione e autoreferenzialità. Rom e Sinti: dialogo diretto e ruolo attivo |
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Public assembly and demonstration called by the Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme to say "dosta!" (enough) to racial discrimination against Roma and Sinti people, calling for principles and norms included in constitutional, European and international texts to be implemented, and for the identification of these minorities as an enemy to cease. Treating an entire community as dangerous criminals, is something that is reminiscent of the past, when it has cost many lives, and the media and political class are accused of fostering a climate of racial hatred against them by using mystification and falsehood, without giving them the right to reply. |
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Rome 10/07/2008
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Public assembly document,
Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme blog
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Federazione Rom e Sinti Insieme |
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