EU launches watered-down human rights agency
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The European Union launched an agency  on Monday to monitor human rights across the bloc, but civil  rights groups criticized a move by some member states to ensure  it had no say on police and criminal justice matters.
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The European Union began consultations aimed at improving detection of terrorist threats and introducing minimum security standards for all 25 member nations.
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Immigration is a time bomb for the  European Union and members must work far more closely with each  other if the bloc is to control the flood of refugees, the EU's  incoming Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner said.
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com European Bureau Chief. (Brussels) Embattled incoming European Justice Commissioner Rocco Buttiglione has moved to head off a full scale crisis for the EU Parliament.
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Britons feel too many people, such as asylum seekers, take advantage of the Human Rights Act, a poll suggests.
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The new United Nations human rights watchdog earned mixed reviews Tuesday after its treatment of Cuba and Israel caused friction among major powers.
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The European Union's aid programme is criticised for being slow, inefficient and poorly targeted by think tank Open Europe.
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The Dutch government yesterday moved to reverse a long tradition as Europe&#39;s most liberal haven for immigrants by signalling tougher treatment of foreigners and Muslims and greater powers for the security services, in response to the Netherlands&#39; worst
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BRUSSELS, Aug 24  (IPS) - The European Union is beginning to take action over  the human rights crisis in Darfur  ahead of the Aug. 29 United  Nations deadline to the Sudanese government.
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The European Union on Friday opened its new chemicals agency in Helsinki, tasked with implementing the EU&#39;s new chemicals regulation to eliminate dangerous chemicals through tightened regulation.
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MEPs are demanding sweeping new powers to vote on, and sack, individual European Commissioners as the price for backing JosÃ© Manuel Barrosoâs new EU executive.
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Europe and the United States increasingly tolerate autocrats posing as democrats out of pure self-interest, in countries such as Pakistan, Kenya, Nigeria and Russia, as human right abuses go on, Human Rights Watch charged Thursday.
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MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (IPS) - A leading human rights lawyer has accused the  Kremlin of obstructing the work of the European Court of Human  Rights.
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Migrants and minorities suffer  discrimination throughout the European Union but the extent of  the problem is hidden by a lack of mechanisms in many states to  monitor racism, an independent EU body said on Tuesday.
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The new European Commission has spent its first day in office trying to quell a storm over the previously undisclosed, amnestied conviction of one of its members for party funding offences.
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Muslims' sense of belonging could be eroded by EU nations not tackling discrimination, a watchdog warns.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Seven months after a major investigation spelt out  Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping  programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are  powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future.