Civil Liberties - new material (19)
01 December 1996
Trial News. McLibel Support Campaign Issue 3 (August) 1996. Latest update on the legal battle between the McDonald's food corporation and two London Greenpeace supporters who had the temerity to question their environmental nutritional and anti- trade union policies. Available from McLibel Support Campaign, 5 Caledonian Road London N1 9DX.
Equal pay sex discrimination and EC law Andrew Bowen. Legal Action July 1996 pp10-12. Examines how European equal pay law has transformed the equivalent UK law particularly in the fields of part-time work pay differentials and pension entitlement.
Turkey: no security without human rights Amnesty International, AI Briefing (October) 1996 pp12 7.99. Report from Amnesty that documents the "crescendo of human rights violations in Turkey during the 1990s" and highlights the urgent need for legal reforms and government and international action. Available from AI 99-119 Rosebury Avenue London EC1R 4RE.
Identity cards. Home Affairs Committee House of Commons Vol 1 and 2. 26 June 1996 HMSO Report from the Committee: HC 172-I (9.70) and Minutes of evidence: 172-II (20.50).