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Death penalty
At last, EU progress on halting execution and torture trade
21/12/2011Amnesty International has welcomed long-awaited changes to European Union rules on the trade in drugs used for execution and equipment used for torture, which will be brought in today.
Death penalty for two men in Belarus
30/11/2011The two death sentences handed down in Belarus today followed a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards, said Amnesty International.
EU must press USA to resolve "war on terror" legacy
29/11/2011As the EU-US Summit convenes in Washington, Amnesty International has urged the European Union to challenge the USA for its continued imprisonment without charge of scores of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the US decision to use military commissions to try detainees, some of whom risk the death sentence if convicted.
Polish EU presidency: Weak on human rights
28/10/2011Mid-way through Poland’s six-month presidency of the European Union, Amnesty International has assessed the country’s progress in achieving various human rights goals it set at the presidency’s outset, and has concluded that the presidency’s overall performance has been weak and half-hearted.
EU urged: ‘Curb Europe’s last executioner’
10/10/2011As Amnesty International marks the World Day Against the Death Penalty, it has urged the European Union to maintain pressure on Belarus to demand an end to executions in the only remaining country in Europe or the former Soviet Union which still executes people.
EU must halt Europe’s last executioner
27/07/2011
Amnesty International has responded to the recent execution of two Belarusian men by calling for Poland’s European Union presidency to increase pressure on its eastern neighbour to abolish the death penalty. The country is the last European state to execute people.
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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’!