The 94-page report, “‘Like We Were Just Animals’: Pushbacks of People Seeking Protection from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina,” finds that Croatian authorities engage in pushbacks, including of unaccompanied children and families with young children. The practice is ongoing despite official denials, purported monitoring efforts, and repeated – and unfulfilled – commitments to respect the right to seek asylum and other human rights norms. Border police frequently steal or destroy phones, money, identity documents, and other personal property, and often subject children and adults to humiliating and degrading treatment, sometimes in ways that are explicitly racist.
Proposed EU-US Data Transfer Agreement Continues to Face Obstacles in Parliament - As we reported in Issue 29 of Cyber Bits, the European Parliament Committee on Civil.
The resolution was withdrawn from the plenary agenda on 13 April during a closed-door meeting of the Conference of Presidents (CoP), a body comprised of the political groups’ chiefs which decides on Parliament’s business and legislative planning.