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  Transparency Watchdog Says Babiš Still Controlling Agrofert

  August 16, 2018 • by The League of Human Rights

  The Czech chapter of Transparency International (TI) has filed a complaint against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš after uncovering information that suggests that although he put his billion-crown conglomerate Agrofert into a trust fund to comply wit...

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  • Czech Republic
  • prime minister Babis
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  Pride Amsterdam Says 2018 Edition Was Great

  August 16, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  The organizers of Pride Amsterdam are satisfied with a successful edition this year. All nine days of the festival were well attended and pleasant. Pride Amsterdam started last week with the Pride Walk demonstration through Amsterdam. Between 10 and 12...

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  • Pride
  • Netherlands
  • Amsterdam
  • LGBTQ
  • Pride Amsterdam 2018
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  Amsterdam Nuns Kick Out Asylum Seeker

  August 08, 2018 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  Justine, an Ugandan asylum seeker who was staying with the nuns of Missionaries of Charity in Amsterdam, was not allowed to return to the shelter after she revealed that she is a lesbian and helped with the Canal Pride Parade. RozeLinks, the GroenLinks...

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  • discrimination
  • Amsterdam
  • asylum seeker
  • LGBTQ
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  Landmark Spain Ruling on UN Resolutions

  August 02, 2018 • by Cristina de la Serna Sandoval, Rights International Spain

  For the first time in Spain, the Supreme Court has given binding juridical value to a resolution from a UN committee. With impeccable reasoning, the Court says: "[T]here can be no doubt about [UN committee resolutions'] binding/compulsory character for...

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  • UN
  • Spain
  • United Nations
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  Libya Slavery Verdict Handed Down by Italian Court

  August 01, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  After the inaugural decision of the Court of Milano in October 2017, the Criminal Court of Agrigento has recognized the slavery of migrants in Libya awaiting in detention centers to flee overseas. A Gambian man has been convicted of putting people in s...

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  • migration
  • inhuman degraing conditions
  • libyan migrant detention centers
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  Terrorism Acquittal Is Good News for Free Speech in Spain

  July 31, 2018 • by Cristina de la Serna Sandoval, Rights International Spain

  The Spanish National High Criminal Court has acquitted six youngsters from 'Straight Edge Madrid’, an anarchist vegan group, of an offence of encouragement of terrorism. The group had published messages on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube criticizing Span...

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  • Spain
  • free speech
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  Italian Government Takes Aim at Statute of Limitations

  July 27, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  The "government contract" drafted by the 5-Star Movement and the League includes a reform of the statute of limitations. The Italian government intends to suspend the statute of limitation in certain circumstances, so that the excessive length of trial...

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  • Antigone
  • fair trial
  • rule of law
  • statute of limitations
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  Hundreds Storm Ceuta Border Fence in Bid to Reach Spain

  July 27, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  Some 800 people have tried to enter Spain by storming a border fence that separates Morocco and the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. The incident occurred on Thursday, just as the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was to meet the French pre...

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  • migrants
  • refugees
  • Spain
  • migration
  • Ceuta
  • border crossing
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  'If This Is Europe': Unaccompanied Minors Face Abuse at Italian-French Border

  July 26, 2018 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  Migrants - including unaccompanied minors - that cross the border near Ventimiglia continue to fall victim to abuses, detention and refoulement by the French police. This is what Oxfam, Diaconia Valdese and Asgi, who work in Ventimiglia to provide reli...

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  • #Italy
  • #discrimination
  • #migrants
  • #france
  • #ventimiglia
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  European Same-Sex Rights Ruling Sets Precedent

  July 25, 2018 • by LibertiesEU

  In June, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU countries must recognize the immigration rights of same-sex spouses, regardless whether same-sex marriage is legal in the respective EU country. The case was brought to court by a Romanian-US c...

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  • Romania
  • LGBT
  • same-sex marriage