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Human rights defenders
Amnesty International letter ahead of the Afghanistan Bonn Conference
02/12/2011The Bonn Conference on 5 December is a key moment to discuss the status of the transition and reconciliation process in Afghanistan, and to decide on important foundations for the future of Afghanistan. We welcome that the EU Foreign Affairs Council Conclusions on Afghanistan of 14 November stress the importance of tangible results in the fields of governance, respect for human rights and the rule of law.
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 Ashton on human rights lawyers in China
01/07/2011
Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the current situation of human rights lawyers in China, and urges the EU to call on the Chinese government to guarantee space for lawyers to exercise their profession. Human rights lawyers are at serious risk of being picked up and vanishing into a legal limbo, with forcible disappearance or arbitrary detention on the increase. Alarmingly, incidences of torture and other ill-treatment appear to be on the rise.
Côte d’Ivoire: Arbitrary detention of actual or perceived supporters of Laurent Gbagbo
27/06/2011
Following the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the former President of Côte d’Ivoire, on 11 April 2011, dozens of individuals have been arrested and are detained arbitrarily, without charge or trial, in circumstances that contravene international fair trial standards.
Comments on European Commission 2010 Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
31/05/2011
On 31 March 2011, the Commission launched its first Annual Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (the Report). This new initiative was announced by Commissioner Viviane Reding at the outset of her mandate. It complements the Commission’s Strategy on the effective implementation of the Charter, published in October 2010 (the Strategy).
Letter to Van Rompuy on his visit to China
11/05/2011
Ahead of European Council President Van Rompuy’s visit to China, Amnesty International urges him to raise human rights concerns at the highest level of leadership. While China is emerging as a global power, the human rights situation in the country is deteriorating. We are deeply concerned about the widening crackdown on dissent and the impact on freedom of expression within Chinese society, and the continuing persecution of religious and ethnic minority groups.
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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’!