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Euro Rights Blog: If One Wants Something Badly Enough...in Defiance of...International Law, Find a Lawyer to Say that it Is Perfectly Lawful - by Matthew White

Euro Rights Blog: If One Wants Something Badly Enough…in Defiance of…International Law, Find a Lawyer to Say that it Is Perfectly Lawful – by Matthew White

Matthew White is a PhD candidate at Sheffield Hallam University, UK On 7 July 2016, the Interception of Communications Commissioner Office (IoCCO) released their report on s.94 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (TA 1984). Section 94 concerns the power of the Secretary of State (after consultation with a public electronic communications network (PECN)) to give directions of a general character in…

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Euro Rights Blog: “Our only weapon is the truth” –by Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a human rights lawyer specialized in counter terrorism and military intervention. She is a Trinity College Dublin graduate and started out in diplomatic mediation in Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the use of torture and military intelligence in counter terrorism and counter insurgency. The story is always the same. Someone is kidnapped or captured; they cannot…

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La France a peur: When Emergency Becomes Permanence

Sarah Kay is a human rights lawyer specialized in counter terrorism and military intervention. She is a Trinity College Dublin graduate and started out in diplomatic mediation in Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the use of torture and military intelligence in counter terrorism and counter insurgency. 13 November 2015 was the deadliest attack on French soil since World War II. President…

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Euro Rights Blog: Miranda v Home Secretary: On the Definition of Terrorism and Deference to the Executive – by Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a human rights lawyer specialized in counter terrorism and military intervention. She is a Trinity College Dublin graduate and started out in diplomatic mediation in Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the use of torture and military intelligence in counter terrorism and counter insurgency. I have long been an advocate for review of the Terrorism Act 2000. Its definition of…

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Euro Rights Blog: Systematic Flaws in a ‘Safe Country’: When the Dublin Regulations Should Not Be Applied – by Adam Reuben

Adam Reuben graduated with a Bachelor in Jurisprudence from Luleå University of Technology in January 2013 and with a Master of Laws in International Law from the University of the West of England in November 2015. His main interest is European asylum law of which he has professional experience from the Asylum Unit of the Swedish Migration Agency. Any views in this post is his own and does not…

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Euro Rights Blog: Safe European Home - by Sarah Kay

Euro Rights Blog: Safe European Home – by Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a human rights lawyer specialized in counter terrorism and military intervention. She is a Trinity College Dublin graduate and started out in diplomatic mediation in Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the use of torture and military intelligence in counter terrorism and counter insurgency. The wording of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 is unequivocal: ISIS,…

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Euro Rights Blog: Did the Drone Attack on Brits in Syria Trigger the Applicability of the ECHR?

On 7 September 2015 British newspapers revealed that the UK had authorised a drone airstrike in Syria that killed two British nationals and that a third British national had been killed in a US operation acting jointly with UK intelligence. All were members of the ISIS group. This blog does not engage with the legality of the attack in relation to the use of force (eg right of self-defence) but…

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Saving the Human Rights Act: Ideas to Shape the Debate

On 3 December 2014 Euro Rights Blog held a seminar at Europe House in London on combatting the misreporting of human rights issues in Europe by the British press. The seminar was kindly supported by the Society of Legal Scholars and the room and refreshments were generously provided by the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom. The misreporting of matters related to human…

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Some are More Equal than Others - Restricting the Right of EU Citizens to Vote in Britain's Referendum on the EU

Some are More Equal than Others – Restricting the Right of EU Citizens to Vote in Britain’s Referendum on the EU

The reported decision of the UK government to restrict the franchise to British and Commonwealth/Irish citizens in forthcoming EU referendum was utterly predictable. But it is also arguably unlawful for two reasons. “Why?” you might wonder, as there is no express right for EU citizens to vote in such a poll, and it would be a stretch to find one in the rights associated with free movement of…

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Euro Rights Blog: Defining the Word ‘Terrorism’ - A Classroom Experiment – by Sarah Kay

Euro Rights Blog: Defining the Word ‘Terrorism’ – A Classroom Experiment – by Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a human rights lawyer specialized in counter terrorism and military intervention. She is a Trinity College Dublin graduate and started out in diplomatic mediation in Northern Ireland. Her research focuses on the use of torture and military intelligence in counter terrorism and counter insurgency.

Last year, I was given the opportunity to teach an intro class on counter-terrorism at…

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Euro Rights Blog: An Issue of ‘Unwillingness’ of State Protection from Persecution Because of Sexual Identity Arising from the Updated Asylum Policy Instruction (UK) and Internal Guidelines (Sweden) – by Adam Reuben

Adam Reuben graduated with a Bachelor in Jurisprudence from Luleå University of Technology in January 2013 and worked for the Asylum Division of the Swedish Board of Migration. He is currently pursuing a LLM in International Law at the University of the West of England and is a student member of the International Law and Human Rights Research Unit.

Following the Court of Justice of the…

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Euro Rights Blog: Emergency Health care and Article 2 ECHR

On 27 January 2015 the European Court of Human Rights found in Asiye Genç (Asiye Genç v Turkey, Application No 24109/07, 27 January 2015) that, by failing to provide health care to a newborn,Turkey had violated the substantive elements of the right to life enshrined in Article 2 of the Convention. The applicants are the parents of a newborn who died in an ambulance waiting to be treated for a…

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Euro Rights Blog: Attack on Charlie Hebdo: An Attack on What?

On 7 January 2015 the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper known for its satirical portrayal of political events, were attacked. 10 journalists and two police officers deployed to ensure their safety were killed. In the wake of the event many have expressed their dismay at the attack, their responses seemingly unanimous: this was an attack on free speech, directed towards freedom of the…

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Report on the Eurorights Seminar 3 December 2014 - "Misreporting Human Rights"

Report on the Eurorights Seminar 3 December 2014 – “Misreporting Human Rights”

On 3 December 2014 Euro Rights held a seminar at the Europe House in London on preventing the misreporting of human rights issues in Europe by the British press. The seminar was kindly supported by the Society of Legal Scholars and the European Commission Representation in the United Kingdom. The aim of the seminar was to build a network of parties interested in collaborating with the aim to…

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British & European Human Rights - A Call to Arms!

Human Rights - A Call to Arms!

These are difficult times for the causes of both human rights and Europe. Remarkably, a mainstream political party, the Conservatives, has promised to repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with its own ‘bumper sticker’ bill of rights. Worse, the Conservative Party seeks to withdraw the UK from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights if its ‘reforms’ are not agreed to. Over…

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Euro Rights Blog: UK’s dirty laundry still spinning at Strasbourg

Yesterday PM David Cameron pledged that if the Conservative Party were to win the 2015 general elections it would repeal the 1998 Human Rights Act and introduce a British Bill of Rights. To justify this, Cameron argues in his speech that whilst the European Convention on Human Rights(ECHR) serves its purposes as a legally binding instrument its interpretation by the European Court is too broad or…

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Euro Rights Blog: Victims’ Bill: A British or a European Initiative?

The press has reported in the past few days the Justice Secretary’s plans to endow victims of crimes with more rights within the English and Welsh judicial system. The plans are sold as an initiative of the government, just in time for the party political conference to gain the favours of the electorate. Justice Secretary Grayling is quoted to say

[f]or the first time we will create a system that…

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