01/12/2011 – Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission’s consultation on strengthening mutual trust in the application of EU criminal justice in the field of detention. We make some suggestions on how the EU could develop an effective and efficient collaboration with its member states and the Council of Europe based on human rights standards.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS STATEMENT

14/10/2011 – On 12 October, Amnesty International published the report No Evidence of a Crime: Paying the Price for police impunity in Ukraine. Many people in Ukraine still face arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment, and other human rights violations at the hands of the police.

14/06/2011 – In this document we wish to highlight several of our principal concerns with the current draft of the Declaration and Plan of Action.

20/05/2011 – The AIRE Centre and Amnesty International address these comments to the Informal Working Group on the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (‘CDDH-UE’) on the occasion of this week’s meeting.

15/04/2011 – Imposing a fee on applicants to the European Court of Human Rights may deny victims of human rights violations access to justice, based on their ability to pay.

15/04/2011 – The European Court of Human Rights is at the heart of the system for the protection of human rights in Europe. Its role is to ensure the observance of the obligations of the 47 states which are party to the European Convention on Human Rights for some 800 million people.

17/03/2011 – On International Women’s Day 2011, Amnesty International expressed its profound concerns at last minute efforts by some Council of Europe member states to unravel key provisions in a new European treaty on violence against women.