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Free Media Nearly Over in Hungary

July 30, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

Media in Hungary is now almost completely under government control after Index staff quit in protest against the editor’s sacking.
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Overly Long Court Procedures Are Systemic: HFHR Research

July 22, 2020 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

In an attempt to assess the changes that have taken place in the justice system in the aftermath of Rutkowski case, the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights has conducted a survey among lawyers on the excessive length of court proceedings.
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- HFHR
- Justice System
Racial Equity Impact Assessments: An Innovative Tool to Combat Discrimination

July 20, 2020 • by Rights International Spain

Institutional racism produces mutually reinforcing patterns of racial inequality in society as it provides unequal access to goods, services and rights according to ethno-racial belonging.
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Dutch State Taken to Court Over Water Closures Affecting Children

July 17, 2020 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The NJCM and Defence for Children have started legal procedures against the Dutch State and two water companies to ensure the protection of the right to water for children. The current regulations allow companies to stop water supplies when parents fai...
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- the Netherlands
Dutch Government not Obliged to Repatriate IS-women and Their Children

July 15, 2020 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Netherlands Supreme Court has ruled that the Dutch government is not responsibile for repatriating 23 Dutch women and their 56 children from camps in Northern Syria. The State argued that Dutch national security, that of other Schengen countries, a...
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- rule of law
- Dutch Supreme Court
Consumer Claim Against Facebook for Violating Privacy

July 15, 2020 • by Raksha Nazir, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

The Consumentenbond (a non-profit organization which promotes consumers protection) and the Data Privacy Foundation have filed a mass claim against Facebook for breaching the privacy of Dutch users. Facebook gathered and sold private data to companies ...
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- the Netherlands
- Digital privacy
CJEU: Employers Cannot Discriminate Between Disabled Employees

July 13, 2020 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

In the opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Advocate General, EU law prohibits employers from favoring one set of employees over another within a group of disabled employees.
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Rights Organizations Are Still Pushing to Avoid Mandatory Upload Filters

July 10, 2020 • by Eva Simon, LibertiesEU

The Commission promised to release the draft guidelines by end of March. Four months later, the guidelines are still to be published. On the other hand, EU member states have already started the harmonization processes of the Copyright Directive.
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Show Us the Data: Contact-Tracing Apps - Part 5

July 08, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

We gave them our data. Now we want theirs.
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NJCM responds to EU White Paper on Artificial Intelligence

July 03, 2020 • by LibertiesEU

On the 14th of June, the NJCM (Netherlands Committee of Jurists for Human Rights) submitted a response to the European Commission’s White Paper on artificial intelligence (AI).
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- Netherlands
- Artificial Intelligence

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