As a critical pledging conference begins today in Brussels, Amnesty International urges that the current African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) is reinforced so that its troops can start effectively protecting civilians in Darfur.
05/05/2006 – Amnesty International submission to the first ACP Ministerial meeting on asylum and immigration (11-13 April 2006). Amnesty International believes that sustainable development can only be based on the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of all people.
As the European Union High Representative for CFSP Javier Solana holds talks today in Brussels with the Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, Amnesty International expressed its serious concern at the arrest of Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a leading Sudanese human rights activist and Chair of the humanitarian organisation Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO).
(Kinshasa/Brussels 26 October 2004) With the release today of a new Amnesty International report on the systematic rape and torture of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the human rights organisation is appealing to EU development ministers meeting in the Netherlands to ensure EU aid to the DRC is used to help rape survivors.