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The way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a "ridiculous and damaging situation" and risks a "dangerous" stand off between parliament and judges, the immigration minister Damien Green has said.
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The way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a "ridiculous and damaging situation" and risks a "dangerous" stand off between parliament and judges, the immigration minister has said.
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Obituary: Emmanuel Cooper; Potter, socialist, writer, editor, critic, biographer, teacher, broadcaster, curator and campaigner for gay rights. Emmanuel Cooper, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a leading potter, who also became widely known as a writer, editor, critic, biographer, teacher, broadcaster, curator and campaigner for gay rights. His wide cultural and artistic interests and activities were pursued with a relentless energy and great entrepreneurial skill which made him a powerful advocate for the crafts and visual arts. ...
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Online activists across Europe are protesting against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which officially aims to protect intellectual rights but which critics say violates privacy. An online petition against the international treaty attracted more than a million signatures, EurActiv's network in Central Europe reports. More »
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NEW LIBYA: GADDAFISM WITHOUT GADDAFI. The declining human rights situation in Libya has now been confirmed by the United Nations. According to the BBC, the UN’s Libya envoy, Ian Martin, told the Security Council in New York last Wednesday. “The former regime may have been toppled, but the harsh reality is that the Libyan people continue to have to live
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The chief co-ordinator of the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Syrians "cannot tolerate any more humiliation".
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What does democracy in action look like? Wisconsin's grassroots campaign to recall and remove the governor, the lieutenant governor What does democracy look like? How about this: a governor, swept into office on the GOP wave of 2010 with a financial assist from the billionaire Koch brothers, pivots immediately from moderate talk about job creation to radical austerity that divides his state more than any in the Union. He attacks the collective bargaining rights of public workers and teachers. When hundreds of thousands of citi...
submitted by OrganizedRage on 31st Jan 2012 (via organizedrage.com)
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Despite the briefing it received in advance, David Cameron's speech to the Council of Europe on reforming the European Court of Human Rights was fairly tame stuff. With the exception of his promotion of a "sunset clause", which it has been rightly pointed out could result in a denial of justice, the exact thing the ECHR is meant to prevent, it certainly wasn't the "savaging" the Sun desc...
submitted by LiberalConspiracy on 29th Jan 2012 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
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David Cameron must realise that the Strasbourg Court has no democratic right to overrule us, says Alasdair Palmer.
submitted by Telegraph on 28th Jan 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
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Obituary: Gerry Lawless; journalist, socialist, Irish republican, Trotskyist, member of British Labour Party and local LP councillor.. One of the most colourful figures in the history of Irish socialism, Gerry Lawless, who has died in London, made legal history by taking the first case heard at the European Court of Human Rights. It was against his internment during the 1950s. He was the first citizen of any European country to take legal action against a government and, though he lost, he set an important precedent. Gerald ...
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