Events

Join us as we celebrate investigative journalist Tony Bunyan’s life and work exposing state violence and documenting popular resistance.

Join MayDay Rooms, the Palestinian Youth Movement Britain and Statewatch for a screening of the documentary ‘Viva Palastina: Reason of Resistance’, examining the repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement in Germany.

Join Statewatch and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience to discuss the nexus between state power, digital technologies and security politics in Europe and the USA.

Do you work with people in immigration or asylum proceedings? Do they face problems of secrecy and lack of access to information about their case? Would you like to know more about how data protection law can be used in migration and asylum cases? Join us for an online workshop on 8 May.

Ultraviolence documents the struggles for justice by families of people killed by police in the UK. The screening is in support of the forthcoming People’s Tribunal on Police Killings (PTPK). A speaker from the PTPK will be in attendance for a discussion session after the screening.

Panel co-hosted by Statewatch and Privacy International at Privacy Camp 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.

On 7 November, digital rights experts from EDRi and Statewatch will explore how civil society, activists and social movements have been increasingly criminalised and surveilled in Europe, and will introduce attendees to a new tool that will people request their data that is held by Europol. Access requests are an important tool in countering the abusive data collection practices by European police.

A webinar presenting a new report from Statewatch and EuroMed Rights (Europe’s techno-borders); a new EuroMed Rights report (Artificial intelligence: the new frontier of the EU’s border externalisation strategy); and an update on negotiations on the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.

We are hosting a workshop at Privacy Camp 2023 in Brussels.

Since the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum was unveiled in September 2020, significant public and policy attention has been paid to the raft of new and recycled legal measures proposed. However, the Pact also includes a range of activities that do not undergo the same institutional to-and-fro as passing new laws.

The Commission’s proposed AI Act aims to address the risks of certain uses of artificial intelligence and to establish a legal framework for the trustworthy deployment of AI. In the context of migration and border control, the Act raises significant concerns, which must be addressed in ongoing negotiations within Parliament, and in future campaigning and advocacy. Join us on Monday 16 May to discuss how AI is already used in the migration control context, and some of the key amendments that must be tabled to adequately protect the rights of people on the move.

We invite you to join us in exploring the connections, similarities and differences between past and present events and struggles through an examination of materials from the Statewatch Library & Archive, a collection of over 800 books, 2,500 items of ‘grey literature’ and a host of other documents and ephemera concerning civil liberties and the state.

This online event is held with the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol and is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council’s as part of the Festival of Social Sciences . We will look at how governments have sought to maintain secrecy in the EU, and teach you how you can exercise your right to access information.

Join Statewatch and the Transnational Institute (TNI) on Monday 14 December for the third and final webinar in the series covering Statewatch’s report ‘Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals’.

The second in our series of webinars exploring the report ‘Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increased forced removals’.

On 28 September Statewatch and TNI hosted the first webinar of a three-part series accompanying the publication of the report ‘Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increased forced removals’.

Normal people are increasingly being treated as suspects when they travel to the EU. What are the risks for civil liberties?

Statewatching the new Europe 2001: international conference on the state, civil liberties and secrecySaturday 30 June 2001 10.00 am – 5.30 pmUniversity of London Students Union, Malet Street, London WC1[nearest tubes: Warren Street, Russell Square,

STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil liberties, the state and the European Union European conference marking Statewatch’s 25th anniversary 10:00 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016 Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 Workshops and discussions on

Tue, 11 February 2020, 18:30–20:00

Thursday 30 January 2020: 18.00 – 20.00 at: Statewatch, c/o: MAYDAY ROOMS, 88 Fleet St, London EC4Y

The Statewatch Library & Archive is being launched on Thursday 22 November 2018 at May Day Rooms in London: 18.00 – 20.00.

STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil Liberties, the State and the European Union Saturday 25 June 2011 Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Statewatch’s 20th anniversary conference was held at Conway Hall in London on Saturday