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CoE Anti-torture Committee Seeks German Prison Reforms
August 03, 2017
The Council of Europe's (CoE) committee on torture has published a report calling on Germany to reduce the use of "mechanical restraints" and solitary confinement in its prisons and warning that diverging confinement standards are in use in different federal states in the country.
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FRA Aims to Communicate to "Intolerant" Society
August 03, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) hosted a meeting in June with communications experts to address the FRA's "failure" to persuade an "increasingly intolerant" world that the global human rights agenda is important.
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FRA Seeks to Promote Rights Agenda Through Arts
August 03, 2017
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) recently hosted a group of artists to discuss the "shared space between arts and human rights," including how the FRA might use art to "help generate emotions and empathy" in support of its promotion of the global human rights agenda.
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EU President Rejects Push to Withhold Funds over Rule of Law
August 03, 2017
At a conference hosted by the German foreign ministry, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned that a German proposal to block access to EU funding for countries that fail to pursue the bloc's fiscal or democratic principles would be unhelpful in that it would divide EU member states.
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OECD Sees No Bar to EU-UK Free Financial Trade
August 03, 2017
The Daily Telegraph reports that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has found no bar within its global Code of Liberalisation to free trade in financial services between the EU and UK after Brexit and has urged the continuance of such trade to avoid "starving the EU of the capital vital to its economy and breaking up the valuable City of London."
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