Location: Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9.
Conference Program
Conference at Central European University
14th Annual Conference on 'The Individual vs. the State' at Central European University, Budapest May 12-13, 2006
14th Annual Conference on 'The Individual vs. the State' at Central European University, Budapest May 12-13, 2006
Over the past number of years, law enforcement and security forces have increasingly turned to the use of crowd-control weapons (CCWs) to respond to popular protests. Today, the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) release "Lethal in Disguise: The Health Consequences of Crowd-Control Weapons", a report documenting the health effects of these weapons.
The judgment of the European Court on 8 April declared that the replacement of the institution of the data protection commissioner for the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information was unlawful. The ruling has made it clear: a two-thirds mandate does not absolve the Hungarian state from complying with European norms.