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  Polish Parliament Adopts Law Putting Supreme Court Under Government Control

  July 21, 2017 • by LibertiesEU

  Poland’s conservative populist government has passed a controversial reform of the Supreme Court, just a day after the European Commission's call for the vote to be suspended. The bill passed with the support of 235 MPs, while 192 voted against it. The...

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  • Supreme Court
  • Constitutional Court
  • Poland
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  Privacy Group Gives Guidance on Inspecting Social Media Profiles of Job Applicants

  July 21, 2017 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  The Article 29 Working Party, encompassing privacy watchdogs of all EU member states, issued guidance on the inspection of social media profiles of job applicants. "Employers should not assume that merely because an individual’s social media profile is...

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  • recruitment
  • social media
  • privacy watchdogs
  • Article 29 Working Party
  • privacy
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  Half of Gay Students in Lithuania Face Bullying

  July 21, 2017 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

  A recent study conducted by the Lithuanian Gay League reveals that gay students in Lithuanian schools still face discrimination. More than half of respondents indicated that their classmates would call them by insulting, offensive nicknames "often" or ...

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  • LGBT
  • bullying
  • Lithuania
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  The Netherlands Does Not Want Dual Citizenship

  July 20, 2017 • by Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  The opposition to dual citizenship remains an important issue for the Dutch government. It is not going to ease its rules. "If the bond with another country becomes stronger than the bond with the Netherlands, then there will come a time when Dutch cit...

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  • Brexit
  • dual citizenship
  • the Netherlands
  • citizenship
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  Does EU Scientific Research Follow Ethical Standards?

  July 19, 2017 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

  After three years of implementing the SATORI project, which aims to develop a common European framework for ethical assessment of research and innovation, organizations participating in the project, including HFHR, have published the results of their a...

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  • ethics
  • HFHR
  • research
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  Call to Veto Lithuanian Law Denying Family Rights to Civil Partners

  July 19, 2017 • by Human Rights Monitoring Institute

  The Lithuanian Gay League on July 12 asked Dalia Grybauskaitė, the president of Lithuania, to veto the Parliament‘s decision to transpose an EU directive without granting family rights to civil partners. The proposed amendments to the Law on Equal Oppo...

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  • LGBT
  • same-sex families
  • discrimination
  • Lithuania
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  Italian Activist on Trial for Helping Man Receive Assisted Suicide

  July 19, 2017 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  Marco Cappato, an Italian activist for the freedom of scientific research and the introduction of euthanasia, will go on trial for bringing Dj Fabo, blind and tetraplegic, to Switzerland, to undergo a medical-assisted suicide, a practice forbidden in I...

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  • privacy
  • suicide
  • Italy
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  Extremist Groups in the Mediterranean Are a Threat to Migrants & NGOs

  July 18, 2017 • by Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights

  Defend Europe is the name of the new and extremely worrisome initiative of "homeland" protection by some European extreme-right groups. A few months ago, activists from Italy, France and Germany started a crowdfunding campaign to rent a ship through Pa...

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  • NGOs
  • immigration
  • migrants
  • Mediterranean
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  Polish Teenage Rape Victim Receives 60,000 Euros in Compensation

  July 18, 2017 • by Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights

  The middle school student was raped by three boys from her school. The District Court ordered the students to pay the teenager 60,000 euros in compensation. The incident occurred in 2008, when the victim was younger than 15 years old. The Guardianship ...

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  • ECHR judgment
  • Poland
  • compensation
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  New Polish Law Undermines the Independence of the Judiciary

  July 17, 2017 • by Eline Mooring, Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten

  As a result of a new Polish law pushed through by the conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS), the Parliament will nominate the members of the KRS, the independent body responsible for the nomination of judges. At the same time, PiS submitted a draft ...

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  • Judicial independence
  • judiciary
  • Poland