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The European Court of Human Rights: What’s at stake? (8 December 2011)
Posted on 01/12/2011 | No CommentsThe European Parliament Office in the UK and the European Institute of University College London in cooperation with the National Council of Voluntary Organizations Invite you to the Annual Sakharov Prize Debate on Human Rights: “The European Court of Human Rights: What’s at stake?” Thursday... -
Are the EU and its member states meeting their human rights obligations? (12 December 2011)
Posted on 24/11/2011 | No CommentsMonday 12 December 2011 Europe House, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU 9.30 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote speakers : Thomas Hammarberg Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe Shami Chakrabarti Director of Liberty Takis Tridimas Professor of EU Law, Queen Mary College,... -
Study visit to three courts on the continent (5-8 December 2011)
Posted on 24/08/2011 | No CommentsThe European Atlantic Movement www.european-atlantic.org.uk Registered Charity No 306950 An Educational Foundation for promoting understanding of World Affairs and of the Institutions of International Co-operation. President: Lord Watson of Richmond , CBE Chairman: Laurence Smy TEAM STUDY VISIT TO THREE COURTS ON THE CONTINENT The... -
“State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum” (14 September 2011)
Posted on 04/08/2011 | No CommentsThe 33rd Corbishley Lecture will be given by Professor Joseph Weiler on “State, Faith and Nation – the European Conundrum”, on Wednesday 14 September at 6.30 pm in the House of Lords by kind courtesy of WPCT Patrons Lord Tomlinson and Lord Williamson, and with... -
The EU and the death penalty
Posted on 04/08/2011 | 1 CommentAt the time when the Lisbon treaty was undergoing ratification, there was a rather odd eurosceptic complaint in Germany that the Lisbon treaty, by giving legal force to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, was not abolishing the death penalty but in fact bringing it back. ... -
Statewatching Europe – civil liberties, the state and the European Union (25 June 2011)
Posted on 09/05/2011 | No CommentsEuropean Conference marking Statewatch’s 20th anniversary 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online: http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html Institutions £30: (Institutions wanting to book places and needing an invoice please send an e-mail to: office@statewatch.org with: CONFERENCE:... -
Should prisoners have the right to vote?
Posted on 07/02/2011 | 6 CommentsThere will be a debate in the House of Commons later this week on whether people sentenced to prison should have the right to vote. The issue comes up because the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the current situation which is that... -
The Council of Europe and human rights
Posted on 22/11/2010 | No CommentsA review of “The Council of Europe and Human Rights” by Martyn Bond (Council of Europe Publishing, 2010) In 1988 a British army special forces unit acting on information from intelligence reports tracked a group of three known Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists to Gibraltar... -
Barry Tempest: to its credit, the European Union has adopted the Convention as a condition of EU membership
Posted on 12/11/2009 | No CommentsThe claim about the “totally alien form of justice” is just plain wrong … the erroneous belief that European forms of justice are somehow at fundamental variance with British traditions has gained some currency, and it creates entirely unnecessary unease. As part of the Second... -
The human rights of a transferred prisoner
Posted on 26/08/2009 | 1 CommentHere is another example of the interaction between criminal justice and national sovereignty. Samantha Orobator was convicted in Laos of possession of heroin and was sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted from the death penalty because she was pregnant. She has been sent back to Britain...
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