Prison and Probation Service should do more to ensure legal rights of inmates placed in disciplinary cells

Date of article: 04/09/2020

Daily News of: 04/09/2020

Country:  Denmark

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Article language: en

The Prison and Probation Service should do more to ensure the legal rights of inmates who are to be placed in disciplinary cells. This is the Ombudsman’s assessment following monitoring visits to 11 local prisons, five state prisons and one immigration detention centre under the Prison and Probation Service. Placement in a disciplinary cell is the most severe...

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Judgement in case C-356/19: Passengers whose flights have been cancelled or subject to a long delay may demand payment of the compensation provided for under EU law in the national currency of their place of residence

Date of article: 03/09/2020

Daily News of: 04/09/2020

Country:  EUROPE

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Article language: en

The refusal to allowsuch a payment would be incompatible with the requirement to interpretbroadly the rights of air passengers and with the principle of equal treatment of aggrieved...

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National human rights institutions: guaranteeing fundamental rights compliance during COVID-19 and beyond

Date of article: 03/09/2020

Daily News of: 04/09/2020

Country:  EUROPE

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Article language: en

“National human rights institutions are guardians of human rights. But too often, they cannot deliver on their true potential,” says FRA Director Michael O’Flaherty. Governments and Parliaments should free NHRIs from unnecessary constraints and grant them the power and resources they need to do their job properly. As the Coronavirus pandemic affected or limited many rights, it is especially important that we have strong and...

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Queremos Movernos pide que las terrazas no invadan el 100% de la zona peatonal

Date of article: 04/09/2020

Daily News of: 04/09/2020

Country:  Spain - Canary Islands

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Article language: es

La representante del colectivo Queremos Movernos, Ana Mengíbar, solicitó ayer el respaldo de Rafael Yanes, titular de la Diputación del Común en Canarias, para que preserve el derecho de las personas con discapacidad de poder salir por las calles de los municipios donde...

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Partenariat Ouest-France : exclure les enfants de demandeurs d'emploi de la cantine est discriminatoire

Date of article: 03/09/2020

Daily News of: 04/09/2020

Country:  France

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Article language: fr

Mickael s'est vu refuser l'inscription de son fils à la cantine scolaire, en école primaire, car il est demandeur d'emploi. Il se demande ce qu'il peut faire.Aux termes des dispositions de l'article L. 131-13 du code de l'éducation, l'accès à la cantine scolaire est un droit pour tous les enfants scolarisés en école primaire. Aucune discrimination ne peut être faite...

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