At this crucial time, with global tensions running high, Amnesty International in Brussels today launched an appeal to EU leaders to show greater moral and political leadership to safeguard the international protection of refugees. The appeal coincides with this week’s Justice and Home...

As Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi arrives in Brussels today for talks on a proposed Cooperation Agreement with the European Union, Amnesty International has called on the EU to ensure that the human rights clause in such an agreement is given real substance, given the deteriorating...

Click here to view the annex: “Human Rights in China in 2001 – A New Step Backwards” (Amnesty International Briefing August 2001) Download PDF attachement

Amnesty International calls on the European Union to uphold its own human rights principles by raising China’s deteriorating human rights record at the highest level during the EU-China summit in Brussels on Wednesday 5 September. Amnesty International’s EU Office has released an open...

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Amnesty International has expressed alarm at proposals to be discussed (and possibly adopted) at this Monday’s EU Justice and Homes Affairs Council to introduce new immigration and asylum measures which the organisation says contravene international human rights and refugee standards....

“Relations between the Parties, as well as all the provisions of the Agreement itself, shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this Agreement.” (Article 2....

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AVOCATS SANS FRONTIÈRES, EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (FIDH), HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, OBSERVATORY FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, WORLD ORGANIZATION AGAINST...

As EU leaders prepare to meet the Russian President Vladimir Putin at their summit in Stockholm, Amnesty International demands that they send the Russian leader home with a clear message. “EU leaders must press the Russian President to agree to an international investigation into human rights...

As EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers prepare to meet in Brussels, Thursday (15 March), Amnesty International warns that measures against illegal immigration to be discussed at their meeting may breach the international human rights commitments of EU Member States. According to Amnesty...

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Report by Amnesty International on the Implementation of the Action Plans adopted by the High Level Working Group on Asylum and Migration (September 1999) Download PDF attachement