AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (FIDH) REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS WORLD ORGANISATION AGAINST TORTURE (OMCT) PRESS RELEASE:BRUSSELS, MONDAY 28 JANUARY, 2002 EU-TUNISIA ASSOCIATION COUNCIL: STOP TRADING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR...

As the European Commission and the President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika prepare to initial an EU-Algeria Association Agreement in Brussels tomorrow (Wednesday 19 December), Amnesty International says the fact this event is going ahead shows the EU’s human rights clause is now clearly not worth...

Letter to Mr Louis Michel, President of the Council of the European Union and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium. Subject: Amnesty International’s concerns regarding crisis in Israel and Occupied Territories. Click here to link to the annex, Amnesty International’s Report...

Security and refugee protection: the human rights agenda for the Laeken Summit and Appeal by Amnesty International Download PDF attachement

The continued deterioriation of the human rights situation in Tunisia – Joint letter by human rights organizations to Louis Michel, President-in-office of the Council and Belgian Foreign Minister. Click here to link to French version of letter and report Download PDF attachement

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...

Amnesty International says EU leaders must tell the US President he is on a collision course with Europe and much of the rest of the world, on key human rights issues such as the death penalty and the establishment of the International Criminal Court. With Juan Raul Garza due to be executed under...

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...