Humanitarian concerns on EU’s southern frontier

09/11/2010 – The forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 8 and 9 November is expected to discuss ‚migration flows and border control at the EU’s eastern and south-eastern borders‛. This discussion is timely given the recent deployment by Frontex of a Rapid Border Intervention Team (RABIT) to the Greek-Turkish border and the continuing hardship faced by asylum-seekers and irregular migrants in Greece, which is also a consequence of the application of the Dublin Regulation.

04/11/2010 – At the outset of the Belgian presidency in June Amnesty International sent recommendations on human rights policy to the Belgian Government as it embarked on its sixth-month presidency of the European Union.As the presidency enters its closing two months, we are writing to follow up our recommendations.

22/10/2010 – Amnesty International’s written contribution to the Counvil of Europe High-level meeting on Roma and Travellers held in Strasbourg on 20 October 2010. The organization welcomed the timely initiative and urged the Secretary General, Mr Thorbjørn Jagland and Chairman of the Commitee of Ministers, Mr Antonio Miloshoski to ensure appropriate action by the member states to ensure effective implementation of states’ international legal obligations and commitments so as to enable the full enjoyment of human rights by the Roma people in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.

Wrong message: Roma coalition deplores Commission findings on France

20/10/2010 – NGOs’ perspective on the EU accession to the ECHR: The proposed co-respondent procedure and consultation with civil society  

01/10/2010 – Forty-eight Asian and European leaders will gather in Brussels on 4 and 5 October for the 8th Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM) to reflect on the increasing inter-linkages between the two continents and to give expression to the common views of Asia and Europe.

Press Release Amnesty dismayed at Commission’s response to France’s Roma treatment

23/09/2010 – Amnesty International (European Institutions Office) and ECRE published this week a Briefing on the Commission’s proposal to amend the Frontex Regulation.

Press Release France targets Roma camps