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EPP Fightback Fails to Stop Human Rights Directive

Thomas O'Reilly June 2, 2023

The directive is likely to come into effect before next year’s EU elections and facilitate decoupling from regimes such as China on human rights grounds.

Danish High Court: Trans ‘Woman’ Must Serve Prison Sentence With Biological Males

Robert Semonsen May 26, 2023

In the decision that it handed down, the district court stated that if the transgender inmate were to be transferred to a female prison he would pose a “not insignificant security risk for female inmates.”

Innovation Concerns As EU Parliament Agrees On AI Rulebook

Thomas O'Reilly April 28, 2023

Similar to the Digital Services Act and GDPR, the AI Act attempts to imprint the EU’s value system on technologies not yet created and scarcely understood.

European Convention on Human Rights: Necessity or Mistake?

Daria Fedotova April 26, 2023

The founders of the Council of Europe saw the need for an international organisation dedicated to protecting human rights. But there were other options back then, and there surely are now.

UN Report Implies Pedophilia Should be Decriminalised

Tristan Vanheuckelom April 25, 2023

The report makes no mention of the parents’ role, let alone rights, in their underage child’s ‘decision-making’ regarding his or her sexual options.

Council of Europe Targets UK Asylum Reform

Thomas O'Reilly April 2, 2023

While Britain is not part of EU institutions, the criticism by the CoE will rightly be seen by many Brexiters as yet another attempt to undermine the UK’s sovereignty post-Brexit.

Mexico’s President Attacks U.S. on Human Rights

Carlos Perona Calvete March 28, 2023

The Mexican president attacks the U.S. for failing to curtail Fentanyl addiction, Assange imprisonment, and going after Trump.

Algerian and French flag on two flag poles, wind blowing them in different directions against sunset background

EU-Algeria Relations Continue Despite Arrest of NGO Analyst

Thomas O'Reilly February 27, 2023

Algerian authorities shut down the country’s oldest human rights organisation and now they’ve arrested Raof Farah, a dual French-Algerian citizen.

Dutch Court: Banning Conversion Therapy Violates Religious Freedom

Tamás Orbán February 2, 2023

The Council of State sided with Christians on the issue and stated that a total ban on conversion therapy would also violate people’s freedom to choose their own therapy.

The EU is Not Europe, Part II:
The Liberal Paradox of Perpetual Conflict

John Laughland January 30, 2023

Where there is a human rights regime, especially if it is an international one as in Europe, the legal system is no longer rooted in social reality. It is no longer constitutive or protective of that reality; it becomes, on the contrary, an instrument for reforming or deforming it.

Tag: human rights

EPP Fightback Fails to Stop Human Rights Directive

Danish High Court: Trans ‘Woman’ Must Serve Prison Sentence With Biological Males

Innovation Concerns As EU Parliament Agrees On AI Rulebook

European Convention on Human Rights: Necessity or Mistake?

UN Report Implies Pedophilia Should be Decriminalised

Council of Europe Targets UK Asylum Reform

Mexico’s President Attacks U.S. on Human Rights

EU-Algeria Relations Continue Despite Arrest of NGO Analyst

Dutch Court: Banning Conversion Therapy Violates Religious Freedom

The EU is Not Europe, Part II:
The Liberal Paradox of Perpetual Conflict

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