【フォトアングル】「原爆と人間展」、被爆者が描いた絵40点展示=8月24日、横浜市西区の新都市プラザ、伊東良平撮影
EU Expands Migration Control Partnership with Ivory Coast
"Documents released today by civil liberties organization Statewatch reveal the European Union is expanding its migration control cooperation with Côte d’Ivoire through deportation arrangements and counter-smuggling initiatives that critics describe as outsourcing border management to African nations."
Full story: EU Expands Migration Control Partnership with Ivory Coast
And see: Outsourcing Borders, bulletin 10
EU migration budget: What's planned for 2028–2034?
"When it comes to the external funding the EU provides to third countries such as Tunisia and Libya for migration control, which henceforth will be disbursed via the Global Europe Instrument, Chris Jones with the rights NGO Statewatch at a briefing said, "it's quite hard to see how any human rights values or safeguards can really be upheld.""
Follow our work on EU border externalisation in Outsourcing Borders: Monitoring EU externalisation policy.
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「週刊金曜日」ニュース:変わらない自民党
PERA Remains a Serious Threat to Efforts Against Bad Patents
As all things old are new again, a bill that would make obtaining bad patents easier and harder to challenge is being considered in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) would reverse over a decade of progress in fighting patent trolls and making the patent system more balanced.
PERA would overturn long-standing court decisions that have helped keep some of the most problematic patents in check. This includes the Supreme Court’s Alice v. CLS Bank decision, which bars patents on abstract ideas. While Alice has not completely solved the problems of the patent system or patent trolling, it has led to the rejection of hundreds of low-quality software patents and, as a result, has allowed innovation and small businesses to grow.
Thanks to the Alice decision, courts have invalidated a rogue’s gallery of terrible software patents—such as patents on online photo contests, online bingo, upselling, matchmaking, and scavenger hunts. These patents didn’t describe real inventions—they merely applied old ideas to general-purpose computers. But PERA would wipe out the Alice framework and replace it with vague, hollow exceptions, taking us back to an era where patent trolls and large corporate patent-holders aggressively harassed software developers and small companies.
This bill, combined with recent changes that have restricted access to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), would create a perfect storm—giving patent trolls and major corporations with large patent portfolios free rein to squeeze out independent inventors and small businesses.
EFF is proud to join a letter, along with Engine, the Public Interest Patent Law Institute, Public Knowledge, and R Street, to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing this poorly-timed and concerning bill. We urge the committee to instead focus on restoring the PTAB as the accessible, efficient check on patent quality that Congress intended.