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UK: Blacklisted builders launch mass legal action against Sir Robert McAlpine – Workers branded ‘troublemakers’ on shadowy industry database make multimillion pound claim against construction giant
"Workers blacklisted by the construction industry over more than three decades have launched a high court claim against industry giant Sir Robert McAlpine, the Tory donor and builder of the Olympic Stadium, for conspiring with Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: Dublin II, EURODAC: LEA access and SIS: Stolen vehicles
- DUBLIN II: State of play: Council position: Proposal for a Regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Read More
UK: Spotlight on racial violence: January – June 2012
"And the first six months of 2012 reveals a reality of routine abuse and harassment – from graffiti to vicious assault, from alcohol fuelled vandalism to hate campaigns. At least one attack has proved fatal. Read More
UK: Home Affairs Select Committee report into the UK Border Force
Full report: The work of the Border Force (pdf) Read More
CIA-POLAND: European Court Seeks Answers from Poland on CIA “Black Site” Case
"The European Court of Human Rights has told Poland to provide it with information about a secret detention site that operated on its territory in 2002 and 2003, in response to an application filed by Read More
TURKEY: Eyewitness in Turkey
"A political purge is under way in Turkey. Since 2009, thousands of activists from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have been arrested in police raids and interned in extended pre-trial detention. Following elections in Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: SIRENE/FAST, SIS Migration, Discrimination and Intra-corporate transfer
- SIRENE and FAST [Fugitive Active Search Teams] joint conference in Prague May 2012: conclusions and other activities in the area of searches for wanted persons (pdf) - SIS MIGRATION TO SIS II: Proposal for Read More
UK: Netpol report into the policing of protest 2010/2011
“A detailed new report launched today by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) highlights how promises made by the police to ‘adapt to protest’ after 2009's G20 demonstrations in London have been forgotten in a Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
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 such data (General Data Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (1)
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 such data (General Data Read More