30/11/2009 – The upcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 30 November-1 December 2009 is expected to agree the next multi-annual programme in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) – the so-called Stockholm Programme – and discuss the new asylum proposals published by...

(Brussels, 17 November) The EU must convey in the strongest possible terms its concern for the successive killings of human rights defenders in Russia and the absence of credible investigations, says Amnesty International ahead of tomorrow’s EU-Russia Summit. In a letter, the human rights...

13/11/2009 – Amnesty International welcomes the European Investment Bank (EIB) public consultation on its revised drafts (Draft II) of the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) Complaints Mechanism Principles, Terms of Reference and Rules of Procedure and of its Transparency Policy. This review...

03/11/2009 – In a letter, Amnesty International urged the EU – who has just approved a new plan for strengthened action in Afghanistan + Pakistan – to look for common positions with the United States so that these issues can be urgently addressed.

Russian activists awarded European rights prize   Amnesty International welcomes the European Parliament decision today to give the 2009 Sakharov prize for human rights to Russian activists Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Ludmila Alekseeva on behalf of Russian human rights organizations....

19/10/2009 – NGOs call for human rights to be at the centre of the ministerial conference in Brussels.

13/10/2009 – Flyer & agenda. Event supported by: Cordaid, Transnational Institute, Berghof Peace Support, Amnesty International EU Office and Statewatch.

Help end child executions   Ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, Amnesty International has written to European Parliamentarians urging them to sign a global petition to end child executions. The appeal, by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, calls on...

EU-Brazil Summit – People must be at the heart of discussions (Brussels, 5 October) Urban and rural violence and the persecution of human rights defenders in Brazil should be raised by the EU at the forthcoming EU-Brazil Summit, says Amnesty International. “Although the Brazilian...

15/09/2009 – Click here to read the letter to the European Presidency prepared by Amnesty International. The briefing prepared by Amnesty International highlights how people held in incommunicado detention under Spanish legislation may be deprived of effective access to a lawyer as well as...

15/09/2009 – In Spain, people held in incommunicado detention may be deprived of effective access to a lawyer as well as access to a doctor of their own choice, and are unable to inform their family and friends of their detention. Under Spanish law, incommunicado detention can be imposed...

06/09/2009 – Letter & briefing on EU-Central Asia Foreign Ministerial & EU-Uzbekistan Cooperation Councilnisterial.