07/01/2003 – Amnesty International’s Comments on Articles 20-32 of the European Commission’s Proposal for a Council Directive on Minimum Standards for the Qualification and Status of Third Country Nationals and Stateless Persons as Refugees or as Persons Who Are Otherwise in Need...

27/11/2002 –

Amnesty International open letter released on the eve of the JHA Council Brussels (26 November) As European Justice and Home Affairs ministers prepare to meet in Brussels on 28-29 November 2002, Amnesty International releases its analysis of the subjects up for discussion, but also presents its...

With the launch today by Amnesty International and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights of a major report on the ill-treatment of detainees and excessive use of force in Greece, Amnesty International sends an urgent plea to the European Union to act more decisively on human rights...

Amnesty International + International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights Click to view full report (large document) “Greece: In the Shadow of Impunity – ill-treatment and the misuse of firearms” (AI index EUR 25/022/2002). Click to view Summary Report “Greece:...

Click here to link to document “Concerns in Europe: January-June 2002” (AI index EUR 01/007/2002).

Presentation given by Dick Oosting, Director of Amnesty International EU Office, on human rights to the Convention on the Future of Europe. Download PDF attachement

ONE STEP TOWARDS RESTORING THE BALANCE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WELCOMES SEVILLE SUMMIT SHIFT FROM SANCTIONS TO “COOPERATION” BUT MAINTAINS CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT Commenting on the decision by European Union leaders at Seville to stop short of adding aid sanctions to their...

Amnesty International’s Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national [COM(2001) 447...

War Against “Illegal Immigration” Puts Human Rights At Risk A week away from the Seville summit, and on the eve of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Amnesty International today releases an urgent appeal to EU leaders to step back from the brink in their so-called...

EU war on ‘illegal immigration’ puts human rights at risk Amnesty International Appeal to the Seville Summit 12 June 2002 Lien pour la version FR du document Download PDF attachement

Overview of Amnesty International’s EU Office work undertaken in 2001 Download PDF attachement