October 3, 2011 - For Protection of Social Rights

Police claim overtime rights breach

Complaints by French police officers that their social rights were breached by the removal of payment for overtime or compensatory time-off, have been declared admissible.

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October 3, 2011 - Society

Alberto Cottica: “We need creative activists for democracy”

“Young people are reinventing new channels for particpation – from the Arab Spring to the Icelandic Wiki Constitution. We feel their expertise should be part of the transition of European youth and of the Edgeryders community.”

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September 30, 2011 - European Convention of Human Rights

Court to probe World War Two Katyń massacre

The case concerns complaints about the adequacy of the investigation by the Russian authorities into the 1940 Katyń massacre.

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September 30, 2011 - Society

Platini joins ‘Kiko’s Friends’

Football chief Michel Platini has become the latest VIP to endorse the Council of Europe’ ONE in FIVE campaign against sexual violence towards children.

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September 29, 2011 - Commissioner for Human Rights

Hammarberg: “Worrying clampdown” in Azerbaijan

The commissioner “regrets” that a year after the publication of his report, most of the recommendations he made to the Azerbaijan authorities have not been implemented.

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