State of Human Rights in Belgium 2024 Report
Comprehensive annual report by the Ligue des Droits Humains documenting the state of human rights in Belgium during 2024. This essential reference work examines critical pressures on democratic institutions and fundamental freedoms, including the expanding influence of far-right political movements across Europe and their impact within Belgium. The report addresses press freedom, migration and asylum policies, algorithmic surveillance systems, police conduct and accountability, drug policy frameworks, social welfare protections, and environmental justice concerns. It analyzes the weakening of democratic safeguards, violations of core rights, and how European legislation on border control and asylum procedures is being implemented on the ground. Detailed assessments show where human rights protections are strengthened or compromised through government action, judicial rulings, and civil society intervention. Indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the contemporary human rights landscape in Belgium and the broader European context.
Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION Storm warning on human rights by Pierre-Arnaud Perrouty .... 02
- Far right and human rights by Sibylle Gioe .... 05
- Freedom of the press: reminder of fundamental (rights) by Jil Theunissen .... 09
- Legislative war against migrants, still and always? by Noémi Desguin .... 15
- These ECHR rulings gathering dust in Belgium's drawers by Aline Wavreille .... 19
- Support for Gaza: from words to action by Manuel Lambert .... 24
- Algorithmic surveillance of bodies and faces: a decisive year 2024? by Rémy Farge .... 30
- What future for predictive policing in Belgium? by Corentin Debailleul .... 35
- War on drugs or fight for dignity? by Saskia Simon .... 40
- The Arizona, the Far-West of social policy? by Yves Martens .... 45
- The Farmer Case: a legal battle for just transition by Matthias Petel and Céline Romainville .... 49
- CONCLUSION Resisting defeatism to defend human rights by Sibylle Gioe .... 53
- Retrospective 2024 .... 55
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