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UNSAFE HARBOURS: Report on the readmissions to Greece from Italian ports and the violations of the migrants’ basic human rights.
Over a hundred accounts collected from migrants, both adult and underage, detailing their experiences of summary readmission from Italy to Greece. Italy does not safeguard the basic human rights of the migrants, especially asylum seekers Read More
Migreurop press release: Launch, London, 2 December: Atlas of migration in Europe, a critical geography of migration policies
Since the mid-1980s, European countries continue to strengthen immigration controls at their borders, as well as in transit countries. As a result, migrants' routes become more and more dangerous and the poorest population of the Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: European Parliament inquiry: Programme 2 December 2013
See: Programme 2 December 2013 (pdf) and see the article: NSA leaks: former DPP calls for more scrutiny of UK's security services - Lord Macdonald says that ISC 'needs more power, cash and opposition chair' Read More
UK: Revealed: the bonfire of papers at the end of Empire – DG was a code word to indicate papers were for British officers of European descent only
"Fifty-year-old documents that have finally been transferred to the National Archive show that bonfires were built behind diplomatic missions across the globe as the purge – codenamed Operation Legacy – accompanied the handover of each Read More
EU: DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: Council of the European Union: Negotiating position
See the full text: Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: Data Protection Regulation & Surveillance at sea: including search and rescue
- Data Protection Regulation: Proposal for a Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation) Delegations will Read More
Dutch DPA: privacy policy Google in breach of data protection law
"The combining of personal data by Google since the introduction of its new privacy policy on 1 March 2012 is in breach of the Dutch data protection act [Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens]. This is the conclusion Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: EU-USA Working Group report published: Existence of PRISM confirmed by USA and also the blanket powers to place under surveillance non-US people including the “the political activities of individuals or groups
See: Report on the findings by the EU Co-chairs of the ad hoc EU-US Working Group on Data Protection (released 28.11.13, pdf) among its findings are: "Under US law, a number of legal bases allow Read More
UK: Private jet standing by to deport ‘close to death’ hunger striker Isa Muazu to Nigeria
"The Home Office has reserved a private jet to deport a man who has been on hunger strike in immigration detention for nearly 100 days. Isa Muazu's lawyers are making final attempts to prevent his Read More
French police evict 800 Roma people from camp in Paris
See: French police evict 800 Roma people from camp in Paris (euronews, link) Read More