Security and Refugee Protection: Amnesty International’s comments on the relationship between safeguarding internal security and complying with international obligations of protection towards refugees and asylum-seekers. Download PDF attachement
In the lead-up to this week’s series of extraordinary EU meetings to discuss anti-terrorism measures, including tomorrow’s special Justice and Home Affairs Council, Amnesty International has outlined its concerns over the potential of these new measures to infringe basic human rights. In a document...
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...
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....
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...
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