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Sent: 21 February 2005 17:21
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Subject: Statewatch News Online, 21 February 2005 (06/05)
Statewatch News Online, 21 February 2005 (06/05)
Full contents see: http://www.statewatch.org/news
1. EU: Council objects to Commission report which "names and shames"
governments
2. EU: Data Protection and RFIDs
3. "Room to roam - England's Irish Travellers"
4. France: Passengers to face trial for preventing a violent deportation
5. UK: Victory for McLibel 2
6. UN report on threats and challenges
7. Italy: Play on prison life to be staged in Rome
8. UK: The new "anti-terror" laws: Taking Liberties, meeting
9. UK: Britain: A Failed State, meeting
1. EU: COUNCIL OBJECTS TO COMMISSION REPORT WHICH "NAMES AND SHAMES"
GOVERNMENTS
"the habit has been not to "name and shame"" governments which fail to
implement decisions correctly (Presidency, Council of the European Union)
see: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/10eu-name-and-shame.htm
2. EU: Data Protection and RFIDs The EU's Article 29 Working Party is
concerned that some applications may "violate human dignity as well as data
protection rights: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/13eu-rfids.htm
3. "Room to roam - England's Irish Travellers", a report of research by Dr
Colm Power.
"This brief historical perspective outlines recent Irish Traveller
migration to Britain and explains the social, legal and administrative
contexts that impact on Travellers' lives underlining the necessity for
this research report. Irish Travellers refer to themselves as 'Pavees' or
'Minceir'. They are an indigenous nomadic minority group in Ireland (south
and north) and Britain.":
see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/Room-to-Roam-England%27s-Irish-Trave
llers.pdf
4. France: Passengers to face trial for preventing a violent deportation:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/12france-deportation.htm
5. UK: Victory for McLibel 2 against UK Government in European Court of
Human Rights - press statement from the McLibel campaign, ECHR press
release and full-text of the judgment: see:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/11mclibel.htm
6. UN: "A more secure world: our shared responsibility" Report of the
High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (full-text, pdf):
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/UN-high-level-panel.pdf
7. Italy: Play on prison life to be staged in Rome. The prisoners' cultural
association Papillon which operates from Rebibbia prison in Rome has
organised the staging of a play called La Gabbia. Il carcere come metafora
della violenza quotidiana (The Cage. Prison as a metaphor of everyday
violence) in Rome on 21 March 2005 in the Vittoria
theatre. The play was written by a former inmate, Giulio Salierno, and will
be performed by actors including former inmates, with the support of the
Rome city council and Libera, an association concerned with prisoners'
rights. It is the first step in a project for the establishment of a pilot
multi-purpose social centre to be managed entirely by prisoners and former
prisoners. Leaflet:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/nibitprisonspp.pdf
8. UK: The new "anti-terror" laws: Taking Liberties, public meeting, 7-9pm
Wednesday 2nd March 2005, Committee Room 10, House of Commons, Westminster.
Hosted by Jim Dobbin MP. Speakers include Gareth Peirce, solicitor; Gillian
Slovo, South-African born novelist; James Welsh, Legal Director of Liberty;
Simon Hughes MP; Richard Harvey, Chair of Haldane Society; Prof. Paddy
Hillyard, Queens University Belfast, author of the book "Suspect
Communities - People's Experience of the Prevention of Terrorism Acts in
Britain", Saghir Hussein, lawyer and Stop Political Terror. Leaflet:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/2-march-leaflet%20.pdf
9. UK: Britain: A Failed State, public meeting with David Shayler, Paul
Feldman & Corinna Lotz. 6pm Thursday February 24 Polis Seminars at London
Metropolitan University, Staff Common Room, Ladbroke House, Highbury Grove,
N5. Leaflet: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/feb/feldman-lotzposter.pdf
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