GCHQ’s bulk interception of communications data, including data about telephone calls and emails of UK citizens unlawfully breached privacy rights of UK citizens, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today. The court found that the UK’s regime for interception bulk communications data and for obtaining data from phone and internet companies breached citizens rights to privacy. The decision follows an eight-year legal battle by 11 NGOs, including Liberty, Privacy International and Amnesty. They brought the case in the wake of revelations of the UK’s involvement in mass surveillance following the leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
21 May 2021 - Bertha Justice Network
Members of the Bertha Justice Network speak out about the current humanitarian crisis in Palestine
We, the members of the Bertha Justice Network, a global network of human rights and movement lawyering organisations working in pursuit of social justice, are observing with the greatest concern the situation in Palestine.
The world is witnessing the forced expulsion of Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem by settlers supported by Israeli armed forces, indiscriminate violence against Palestinian protestors, attacks on Palestinian holy sites, and indiscriminate bombing of Gaza which has been under blockade for 15 years. As of May 19, Palestinian human rights organisations have documented the deaths of 219 Palestinians in Gaza, including 63 children. In the same period, 10 deaths have been recorded in Israel, including 2 children. The United Nations states nearly 75,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had been displaced from
Healthcare Workers Refusing to Sign New Contract Turn to Constitutional Court
Doctors and nurses who refused to sign new contracts in March will turn to the Constitutional Court (AB). They say they have received less severance payment than they should have as civil servants.
Hungarian healthcare workers had to sign a new contract by March 1st in order to be able to continue working in public care. While the new law (and the new contracts) grant a roughly 120% salary increase to doctors in Hungary in three steps, it also criminalizes gratuities. Moreover, it implements much stricter working conditions, a lower hourly wage for on-call, nights, weekend, and holiday shifts, and also bans second jobs. In addition, nurses or ambulance workers haven’t received any kind of notable wage increase, despite having signed the new contract.
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