Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Date of article: 13/08/2019

Daily News of: 27/08/2019

Country:  Poland

Author: Polish Ombudsman

Article language: en

Data:
2019-08-13

The Commissioner for Human Rights issued ovservations concerning measures aimed at the implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination in the years 2014-2019.

The enclosed information takes into consideration the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination presented after the examination of the joint XX and XXI periodic report submitted by Poland (CERD/C/POL/CO/20-21).

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Giovanni Buttarelli: in memoriam

Date of article: 22/08/2019

Daily News of: 23/08/2019

Country:  EUROPE

Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights

Article language: en

It is with great sadness that the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights learned about the death of Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor.

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Camera in a remand prison cell and the right to privacy

Date of article: 21/08/2019

Daily News of: 23/08/2019

Country:  Czechia

Author: Czech Public Defender of Rights

Article language: en

21. 08. 2019

The complainant placed in a remand prison cell described his cell as a “toilet with a camera”. Allegedly, the camera was only a few meters away from the toilet and made a 24/7 recording. Although it was supposed to have a night-vision technology, the guards would turn on the lights five times a night during the patrol, thus waking up the prisoners. It was not possible to determine the actual use of the camera in the complainant’s case. The prison claimed that the guard would turn on the camera transmitting images to the guard’s station only if there was a danger of suicide. It did not make any recordings.

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