Foreign Policy
Eastern neighbourhood
The spring that never blossomed-freedoms suppressed in Azerbaijan
16/11/2011The rights to freedom of expression and assembly in azerbaijan are severely restricted. in spite of this, youth activists, political opposition parties and others organized public protests in march and april 2011, demanding more freedoms and regime change.
Letter to Enlargement Commissioner - Serbia Roma 070411
11/04/2011Amnesty International writes to Stefan Füle about its report documenting forced evictions of Roma people by the City of Belgrade in connection with an EU-funded construction project and analyses how the authorities failed to comply with their international human rights obligations on the right to adequate housing.
Recommendations to the European Union During the Hungarian Presidency
04/01/2011The changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty have radically transformed the EU presidency’s task. It now focuses far more on internal affairs. So one of the main challenges confronting the Hungarian presidency on the human rights front will be something its predecessors were able to dodge by hiding behind laudable work on the external front. Europe’s human rights landscape has also been altered. Discrimination against minorities, and racism in law enforcement and criminal justice, have grown so much that they are too overwhelming for member states to tackle singlehandedly. In particular the situation of the Roma people and the grave violations they are facing throughout Europe, have spelt an end to the previous and all-too-convenient impasse EU presidencies have cited to allow them to avoid confronting the human rights situation in the EU.
Uzbekistan: a briefing on current human rights concerns
06/05/2010In light of the upcoming fifth anniversary of the so-called Andizhan events in May 2010, Amnesty International would like to provide background information on key human rights concerns currently persisting in Uzbekistan. This document supplements and updates Amnesty International’s briefings to the UN Human Rights Committee prior to its examination of Uzbekistan’s implementation of its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Uzbekistan - Fifth Anniversary of Andizhan killings
06/05/2010 Since the EU-Central Asia Strategy was adopted in June 2007, Amnesty International has consistently called on the EU to ensure a clear and assertive approach to human rights abuses across the region, amid concern that this commitment has been neglected by non-human rights experts within the EU institutions and Member States.
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PEOPLE UNDER THREAT
02/02/2012
Around the world people are suffering the consequences of having their human rights violated. Amnesty International calls on the Danish presidency to ensure the EU’s active engagement in these cases.
Recommendations to the Danish EU Presidency
04/01/2012
We present specific recommendations on human rights policy for the Danish presidency to deliver during its six-month term as President of the Council of the European Union (January-July 2012).
ACT NOW! Stop the trade in torture and death penalty equipment
04/07/2011
Add your name to our petition and demand that the Commission acts now to strengthen its ban on the trade in ‘tools of torture’!