[B] 【西サハラ人民独立運動半世紀」【西サハラ最新情報】  平田伊都子

2 months ago
今から50年前の1975年10月12日に、西サハラの人々は一致団結して独立を目指そうと蜂起しました。 その50周年記念日を前に、アルジェリア西端チンドウーフの砂漠にある難民キャンプでは、革命運動50周年を記念して、催しがありました。 が、50年経っても独立の兆しが見えてこない、なんだか、やるせないお祭です。
日刊ベリタ

【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

2 months ago
 被爆者が描いた絵で原爆の被害を伝える「原爆と人間展」が8月22日開幕。会場では24日まで、多くの死体が浮かぶ川や変わりはてた母親にすがる子らの40点の絵に加えて被爆当時の着ていた衣類などが展示された。神奈川県原爆被災者の会などで作る運営委員会が主催。会場では日に2回、被爆者が体験を語る時間が設けられ、撮影日には14歳の時に広島で被爆し、10人の身内を失った94歳の松本正さんが被爆時の様子や思いを語った。       JCJ月刊機関紙「ジャーナリスト」2025年9月25日号
JCJ

EU Expands Migration Control Partnership with Ivory Coast

2 months ago

"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

Statewatch

EU migration budget: What's planned for 2028–2034?

2 months ago

"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.""

Full story.

Follow our work on EU border externalisation in Outsourcing Borders: Monitoring EU externalisation policy.

Statewatch

PERA Remains a Serious Threat to Efforts Against Bad Patents

2 months ago

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.

Katharine Trendacosta