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Surveillance giants: how the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights
Google and Facebook help connect the world and provide crucial services to billions. However, this report argues that their surveillance-based business model is inherently incompatible with the right to privacy and poses a threat to a range of other rights, including freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to equality and...
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Poland 2019: the state of the judiciary
This briefing provides an update on the state of judicial independence in Poland. The situation is characterised by the ongoing harassment of judges who stood in defence of the rule of law and human rights, and by media smear campaign against judges with alleged links to the Ministry of Justice.
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Sent to a war zone: Turkey's illegal deportations of Syrian refugees
This report reveals that, contrary to the Turkish authorities’ claims that they do not deport anyone to Syria, in mid-2019 it is likely that hundreds of Syrian refugees across Turkey were swept up, detained, and transported against their will to one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
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Imprisoned women, stolen children: policing sex, marriage and pregnancy in Jordan
This report documents how women accused of being “absent from home”, eloping, or having sex outside marriage, risk imprisonment without charge or trial in Jordan if male family members complain to the authorities.
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"Do you think we will prosecute ourselves?" No prospects for accountability in South Sudan
This report documents the failure of the South Sudanese government to investigate and prosecute suspects of war crimes since the start of the conflict in 2013. The report is based on 47 interviews conducted with legal professionals, government officials, UN personnel, and civil society representatives working in or with the justice sector, alongside a review...