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The CIA's Global Strategy: Intelligence and Foreign Policy

Attempts to provide context for Pentagon Papers scandal and further information on CIA activities in Africa

Tags: Africa, CIA, Cultural nationalism, foreign policy, Kenya

Covert Action - What Next?

Tags: Intelligence Agee/Hosenball Covert/action MI5 MI6

Jamaica Destabilised: British Guiana Repeated? CIA Briefing

Tags: British Labour Party, CIA, Deportation, Jamaica, Mark Hosenball, People's National Party, Philip Agee

Policing the Euro-State

Looks at the lack of democratic safeguards in the Schengen Agreement. Interview with Lode van Outrive MEP and extracts from the relevant parliamentary documents.

Tags: Europe EC EU Police Schengen

POLICING THE EURO-STATE (Agenor 111)

"This pamphlet is a contribution to the debate on the democratic context of the Schengen Agreements; it includes an interview with Lode van Outrive (MEP) and extracts from the relevant Party documents."

Tags: public scrutiny Schengen asylum democratic deficit implementation

between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in respect of the States of Guernsey and..

Tags: United/States

concerning Mutual Assistance in Relation to Drug Trafficking

Bridgetown, 19 April 1991 (The Agreement entered into force on 1 June 1993)

Tags: Drugs Police

Military Intelligence & the Information Explosion

Tags: Intelligence Military DIA

Europe Human Rights and the need for a fair asylum policy

Examines the threats to human rights posed by restrictive asylum policies in Europe.

Tags: Europe EC EU Asylum Immigration

Austria Torture and Ill-treatment

Examines the allegations of ill-treatment of police detainees which , it is claimed, amount to torture. Reviews the police complaints procedure, the legal safeguards against torture and the criminal investigation process.

Tags: Europe EC EU Austria Prisons

Austria Torture and Ill-treatment (update to report of January 1990)

Examines the Austrian Government's proposed reforms to safeguard police detainees in light of Amnesty's 1990 report.

Tags: Europe EC EU Austria Prisons

Insufficiencies of the Austrian Asylum Policy An AI appeal to the Austrian government 11 November 1993

Notes on the appeal which claimed new Austrian asylum legislation in 1991 is in contravention of international law protecting the rights of asylum seekers.

Tags: Europe EC EU Immigration Asylum Austria

Police Ill-Treatment in Denmark A summary of Amnesty International's Concerns

Describes demonstration on 18-19May 1993 where plainclothes and riot police fired into a crowd, ill-treatment during an anti drugs operation in Christiania and the dangerous use of restraining equipment.

Tags: Denmark police Policing EU EC Europe Prisons Immigration Asylum

France Shootings, Killings and Alleged Ill-treatment by Law Enforcement Officers

Investigates the ill-treatment, torture, murder and sexual abuse of detainees in France. Much of this concerned those of non European ethnic origin. Concludes that there are serious shortcomings in the practices and accountability of French law…

Tags: France Police Policing EU EC Europe Prisons Immigration Asylum

Italy Alleged torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement and prison officers

Outlines AI's concerns about human rights abuses (a large proportion involving immigrants) in Italy. Summarizes the findings of inter-governmental bodies which also express concern.

Tags: Europe EC EU Police Prisons Drugs Immigration Asylum

United Kingdom: Deficient Policy and Practice for the Protection of Asylum Seekers

Highlights concern about restrictive asylum measures in the UK introduced since 1987. Including: restrictions on access to legal advice, limitations on the rights of MPs to intervene in cases, arbitrary detention whilst claims are considered,…

Tags: Europe EC EU Immigration Asylum

United Kingdom Cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment during forcible deportation

Report on the death of Joy Gardner and the alleged ill-treatment of others. Urges the UK government to initiate an independent inquiry to investigate the use of private security officers, restraining equipment and the accountability of all agencies…

Tags: Europe EC EU Police Policing Immigration Asylum Deportation Private/security

Austria The alleged ill-treatment of foreigners: a summary of concerns

During the past year AI has received allegations that foreigners, some of them asylum-seekers, have been subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by police or prison officers - in some cases whilst awaiting deportation

Tags: Europe EC EU Immigration Asylum Police Drugs Racism

EUROPE: The need for minimum standards in asylum procedures

Outlines the reasons of many EU and other European countries falling short of minimum standards in their asylum procedures. Calls for minimum standards of treatment of asylum seekers across Europe.

Tags: Europe EC EU Immigration Asylum Schengen Dublin/Convention

Switzerland Allegations of ill-treatment in police custody

Describes AI's concerns about the many allegations of deliberate and unwarranted police violence against people in custody - many involving foreigners of people of non Swiss descent.

Tags: Europe EC EU Police Racism Immigration Asylum

Europe Human Rights and the Need for a Fair Asylum Policy

Examines the current approaches towards asylum-seekers amongst European governments. The report fears that recently imposed visa requirements, "fast track" asylum procedures, cooperation amongst European governments in restrictive areas of policy…

Tags: Europe EC EU Asylum Immigration Schengen Dublin/Convention

Portugal Torture and ill-treatment: Summary of Amnesty International's Concerns

Outlines concerns regarding torture and ill-treatment by police and prison staff in Portugal. It is illustrated with specific cases, explains concern over the functioning of the criminal justice system in preventing and investigating such matters and…

Tags: EU EC Europe Portugal Prisons Police Racism

To tell you the Truth: The Ethical Journalism Initiative

Tags: Belgium, ethics, Journalism, Media, Norway

MR SHELPIN SMILES "Radical Revolutionary Transformations" and the tactics of confrontation

Tags: Subversion KGB

Officially Secret

"Early in 1971 Jonathan Aitkin stood in the dock of the Old Bailey accused of offences under the Official Secrets Act 1911...Although much of this book is a narrative account of an historical legal struggle, Officially Secret is more than a…

Tags: History, Law, OSA

BASIC DOCUMENT ON FORMER CONTRACT-WORKERS RESIDENCE RIGHTS

Tags: Germany GDR unification deportation work/permits residency

The Labour Laws and Cabinet Legislation

Tags: Public order TUs Strikes SB MI5 trade union

THE USE OF THE POLICE COMPUTER IN WEST GERMANY

Tags: PNC data processing information fingerprints computers intelligence

The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the British Secret Service

Tags: Secrecy Security Spy Intelligence Secret service

The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service

Inside story exploring figure of C, Sir Mansfield Cumming, founder of the British Secret Service 1909.

Tags: British Secret Service, C, First World War, MI6, Sir Mansfield Cumming

Life and Times of Joe Thomas: The Road to Libertarian Socialism

A biography of Joseph Thomas (1912-1990)

Tags: anti-fascism, Joseph Thomas, libertarian socialism, workers movement

Anti-racism

Tags: Racism Fascism Anti-racism Capitalism Nationalist

Communal Policing

Tags: Police Community/policing

DRUG TRAFFICKING AFTER 1992: A Special Report

Tags: drugs TREVI CELAD policing money laundering organised crime

Challenging Racism

Tags: Racism Fascism Discrimination Education School Britain

The Wasted ?30,000,000,000 spent on false security

Tags: Defence Military

Law and Orders

Tags: General

Reinventing Democracy: Labour's mission for the new century

Graham Allen's personal contribution to the continuing development of the Labour party's policy on democracy

Tags: politics electoral/reform constitution

The Times 1000 (1973-74)

Tags: General Business

Verfssungsschultz und Demokratie - vereinbar?

Special Branch Policing: Channel Tunnel

Revision of the Visa Code (Regulation 810/2009) and Visa Information System (Regulation 767/2008)

Tags: EU, immigration, policy, short-term visa, visa code, Visas

Civil Liberties in the 102nd Congress

Tags: United States religion family minority censorship immigration terrorism

The Organization of Political Ideology: Culture, State, and Theater in Fascist Italy

Presents a theoretical framework for discussing the interaction between states and cultural institutions and apply it to Italian fascist theatrical policy.

Tags: Europe EC EU Right Italy