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Subject: Statewatch News Online, 9 June 2005 (22/05)
Statewatch News Online, 9 June 2005 (22/05)
Full contents see: http://www.statewatch.org/news
1. Council of Europe report on human rights in UK
2. Statewatch analysis: Revising EU border control rules
3. EU: Impact of the Amsterdam Treay on justice and home affairs
4. Ethnic Profiling by Police in Europe
5. UK: Union call to end tagging of workers
6. European Parliament reject mandatory data retention
7. Letter from NGO to European Parliament on mandatory data retention
8. EU-Libya: Council Conclusions
1. UK: Damning report on human rights and civil liberties: Report by Mr
Alvaro Gil-Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights on the United Kingdom,
Council of Europe:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/coe-uk-report.pdf
2. Statewatch analysis: Revising EU border control rules: A missed
opportunity? (pdf). Professor Steve Peers, University of Essex, seeks to
untangle the discussions between the Council of the European Union and
the
European Parliament (EP) on the abolition of internal border checks and
external border controls. While the EP has had some success in getting a
number of its more modest amendments accepted more radical changes have
either been rejected by the Council or not tabled at all by the EP. So
while, there will be some important improvements there are risks, in
particular, of breaches of international human rights law and refugee
law
concerning asylum-seekers who arrive at the external borders of EU
Member
States, as well as the human rights of demonstrators and protesters.
Analysis:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/eu-border-code-analysis.pdf
3. EU: In 2000 Statewatch prepared a report for the European Parliament
on:
"The impact of the Amsterdam Treaty on justice and home affairs issues":
Volume 1: The main report (799kb):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/sw-ep-amsterdam-Vol-1.pdf
Volume 2: Annexes (721kb):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/sw-ep-amsterdam-Vol-2.pdf
4. Ethnic Profiling by Police in Europe (Open Society - Justice
Initiative,
link to full report, pdf):
http://www.justiceinitiative.org/db/resource2/fs/?file_id=15782
Contribution by Ben Hayes (Statewatch): A Failure to Regulate: Data
Protection in the Police Sector in Europe:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/ben-hayes-A-Fai.pdf
5. UK: GMB Union Congress Demands End To Electronic Tagging Of Workers
"Battery Farm" Workplaces.
Press release (link):
http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=91861
Report: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/gmb-tagging-at-work.pdf
Guardian coverage (link):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0%2C3858%2C5209912-103690%2C00.html
6. EU: On 7 June the plenary session of the European Parliament
unanimously
adopted the report from the Committee on Civil Liberties calling for the
rejection of the proposal from the Council of the European Union
(governments) on the mandatory retention of all telecommunications
traffic
data: Full-text of report:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/may/ep-data-ret-alvaro-report.pdf
7. EU: Letter to the European Parliament on mandatory retention of
communications data - from European Digital Rights, Privacy
International
and Statewatch:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/02eu-ngos-data-retention.htm
Letter (French):
http://www.iris.sgdg.org/actions/retention/lettre-pe-fr-0605.html
Letter (German):
http://www.edri.org/campaigns/dataretention/OffenerBrief
Letter (Spanish):
http://www.edri.org/campaigns/dataretention/cartaabierta
8. EU/Libya: Full steam ahead, without pausing to think examines the
draft
Conclusions discussed by the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 2 June
2005:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/jun/01eu-libya.htm
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