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UK: The Government must urgently consider the human rights implications of COVID-19 measures, says Joint Committee on Human Rights
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights has released a new report on the impact of the government's response to the pandemic on human rights. The report looks at the rights to life, to liberty, to privacy, to education, to a fair trial and others. Read More
Viewpoint: The legal and illegal businesses of Fortress Europe
Border controls are big business - for the companies supplying the fences, technology and equipment used to put them in place, and for the smugglers who seek to circumvent them, argues Ana González-Paramo. Read More
UK: Renewal of the Coronavirus Act: Emergency powers need parliamentary scrutiny
Six months after it was passed into law, the Coronavirus Act is due to come before parliament for a vote on its renewal. However, renewing the act would allow the government to continue passing new laws without any parliamentary scrutiny of individual measures. This would mean the continuation of what one former Supreme Court judge has called government by decree. Read More
Bulgaria will relocate some refugees from Moria, but racism and xenophobia make it a tough destination
Bulgaria has agreed to accept 70 unaccompanied minors affected by the fire in the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. However, conditions for migrants and refugees are problematic - the use of detention is widespread, and racism and xenophobia are deeply rooted in Bulgarian society, argues Milana Nikolova. Read More
EU: Head of Europol supervisory group wants to create a “European FBI”
Europol should become "a kind of European FBI", according to Boris Pistorius, the interior minister of the German state of Lower Saxony and one of the co-chairs of Europol's Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group. "In the medium term, it must also have its own executive powers," he has said. Read More
First analysis of the EU’s new asylum proposals
Professor Steve Peers (Law School, University of Essex) gives an overview of the proposals published as part of the EU's new Pact on Migration and Asylum. Read More
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EU: No human rights monitoring for 20% of Frontex’s deportation flights in 2019
There were no human rights monitors present on 20% of the deportation charter flights coordinated by Frontex in 2019, according to an agency report being published today by Statewatch. Read More
Frontex: Report on cooperation with third countries in 2019
The report gives an overview of Frontex's engagement with non-EU states during 2019 on issues such as surveillance, risk analysis and training. It was circulated to the European Commission, Council of the EU and European Parliament in June 2019. Read More
Tony Bunyan retires as Director of Statewatch after 30 years
A personal message from Tony Bunyan. Read More