COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT NOT GIVING THE WHOLE STORY SAYS AMNESTY: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND CIVILIANS STILL UNDER THREAT

With EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers expected to revisit the issue of sending asylum seekers to “safe third countries” (JHA Council Dublin 22-23 January), Amnesty International has released an analysis paper expressing its concerns that common EU standards may be agreed which breach international refugee and human rights law, and which shift responsibility to countries outside the EU without proper safeguards.

With EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers expected to revisit the issue of sending asylum seekers to “safe third countries” (JHA Council Dublin 22-23 January 2004), Amnesty International has released an alaysis paper expressing its concerns that common EU standards may be agreed which breach international refugee and human rights law, and which shift responsibility to countries outside the EU without proper safeguards.

(Dublin/Brussels 12 January 2004) As the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern prepares to address the European Parliament this week on how Ireland intends to guide the EU through the next six months, Amnesty International is calling for serious improvements in EU human rights policy inside Europe.

04/11/2003 –

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) CIMADE (Service oecumenique d’entraide) FINNISH JURISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) JURA HOMINIS (Italian section of International Commission of Jurists) JUSTICE NJCM (Dutch section of International Commission of Jurists) STATEWATCH OMCT Europe (World Organisation Against Torture) OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE ICS (Consorzio Italiano di solidarietà) MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE – Missione Italia ERRC (European Roma Rights Center)

11/09/2003 –

AMNESTY LAUCHES 40-PAGE ANALYSIS IN LEAD-UP TO EU SUMMIT

Amnesty International Launches 40-Page Analysis in Lead-Up to EU Summit

Amnesty International Briefing on the EU Return Plan to Afghanistan

As the European Union prepares to launch a major programme this Thursday (EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels) to repatriate refugees to Afghanistan, Amnesty International calls on the EU to pull back from any plans for the moment. (document available link at end of page: “Amnesty International Briefing on the EU Return Plan to Afghanistan”).

06/05/2003 – Amnesty International Briefing on the EU Return Plan to Afghanistan for the EU-JHA Council, 8 May 2003