COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE CONJOINT DU CONSEIL EUROPÉEN SUR LES RÉFUGIÉS ET LES EXILÉS (CERE), DU BUREAU EUROPÉEN D’AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ET DE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

Refugee and human rights organisations across Europe are jointly calling on the European Union to scrap one of the key elements leading to the proposed Common European Asylum System.

With the EU’s political and trade relationship with China being actively discussed, Amnesty International today releases its latest report on the use of the death penalty in China and calls on EU foreign ministers meeting today to actively consider the report, which calls for an immediate moratorium on executions in China.

Amnesty International Report – AI index ASA 17/003/2004 dated 22 March 2004

22/03/2004 – Amnesty International Report – AI index ASA 17/003/2004 dated 22 March 2004

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER TO IRISH EU PREIDENCY ON IRAQ

18/03/2004 – In an Open Letter to the Irish EU Presidency (see below), Amnesty International is calling on the EU to reconsider its apparent decision not to push for United Nations’ monitoring of the human rights situation in Iraq. With EU Foreign Ministers due to discuss this issue at their meeting on Monday (22 March), Amnesty International today releases its report Iraq: One year on which states that the human rights situation in the country remains dire

OSCE Workshop on the Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Copenhagen 15-16 March 2004

16/03/2004 – Workshop on the Protection of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism – Copenhagen 15-16 March 2004

 !! Update 10/3/04 – EU-Russia talks postponed – new date to be confirmed !!