News in Brief September 2002
01 September 2002
September 2002
The challenge to the listing of the PKK as a terrorist group by the Council is summarised in the Official Journals, case in Court:
C 233/32 (pdf) plus challenge by the Kurdistan National Congress also to the Court of Justice:
Case
Final Declaration of the 7th meeting of Ministers responsible for migration affairs, Helsinki, 16-17 September 2002 (Council of Europe):
Declaration (pdf)
USA: "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America", which adds "regime change" to USA objectives:
Report (pdf)
Greek Roma Bring Police Brutality Claim to European Court of Human Rights:
ERRC press release
"Databasing the DNA of innocent people - why it offers problems not solutions", Liberty response to Court of Appeal judgment and the views of Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys:
Liberty
"Anti-terrorism & human rights", Statement from the Basque Observatory of Human Rights:
Statement
EU to set up border police force:
Full EU report (pdf)
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Privacy International today released the fifth annual Privacy and Human Rights survey. The report reviews the state of privacy in over fifty countries around the world:
Report (link)