07/10/2008 – Letter to Benita Ferrero Waldner on EU human rights policy towards Uzbekistan in light of the upcoming General Affairs and External Relations Council on 13-14 October 2008.

(Brussels, 29 September) Make human rights part of the discussions with India, says Amnesty International ahead of the EU-India Summit taking place in Marseille. A discussion on global challenges such as food security and climate change is not complete unless human rights are taken on board....

26/09/2008 – Letter to Mr. Sarkozy ahead of the India summit.

(Brussels, 15 September) On the eve of the EU’s first “Roma Summit” the EU Roma Policy Coalition* (ERPC) urges the European Union to devise a long-term strategy to respect and protect the fundamental rights of Roma people. The NGOs call on the Summit to commit to common standards...

(Brussels, 9 September) The European Commission’s position regarding the Italian government’s recent policies in relation to Roma needs to be clarified, says the EU Roma Policy Coalition (ERPC).* The Coalition is concerned by the comments of Commissioner Barrot’s spokesperson...

18/07/2008 – A letter highlighting the ongoing abusive conditions suffered by women domestic migrant workers in Jordan.

Union for Mediterranean: a way to bypass human rights (Brussels, 11 July) The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) initiative, to be endorsed on 13 July, may lead to a serious breach of the EU’s commitments to raise human rights concerns in all bilateral relations, says Amnesty International....

10/07/2008 – A letter to the French Presidency, expressing serious concern at the lack of a human rights dimension in the ‘Union for the Mediterranean’.

Mauritania: Under pressure from the EU, migrants face illegal arrest and collective expulsion (Brussels, 2 July) Irregular migrants attempting to reach Europe are being arrested, ill-treated and collectively expelled from Mauritania, sometimes not to their home countries, and without opportunity to...

26/06/2008 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned about entrenched problems relating to human rights in Russia. We believe that the EU should use the opportunity of the EU-Russia Summit to raise once again issues that were discussed at the recent EU-Russia human rights consultations,...

25/06/2008 – Amnesty International calls on the EU Presidency to ensure that the issues discussed at the recent EU-Russia Human Rights Consultations are also raised at the highest level during the EU-Russia Summit, mainly the right to freedom of expression and the human rights situation in...

(Brussels, 24 June) Not a single measure has been taken to prevent further European involvement in rendition and secret detention says Amnesty International as it releases a new report: “State of denial: Europe’s role in renditions and secret detention”. The report sheds further...