02/09/2009 – Letter and report on “The US Embargo against Cuba: its Impact on Economic and Social Rights” to Commissioners Karel De Gucht and Benito Ferrero-Waldner

31/07/2009 – Amnesty International has recently launched a new report entitled The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized. This report is being published on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the revised Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua, which came into force in July 2008. The report examines the consequences of Nicaragua’s total ban on abortion on women and girls who need life-saving medical treatment.

31/07/2009 – Letter to Ms. Ferrero-Waldner accompanying the Nicaragua report.

09/07/2009 – Amnesty International is publishing a new report today on maternal health in Peru which documents progress in tackling maternal mortality since the 2006 report, Peru: Poor and excluded women – Denial of the right to maternal and child health.

15/06/2009 – New EU-Pakistan relationship must have human rights at its core.

EU: human rights message faltering in the Middle East

03/06/2009 – At their meeting on 4 and 5 June 2009 JHA Ministers will have a political debate on the Asylum Proposals presented by the Commission in December 2008 and February 2009, as well as the recent developments with regard to the return to Libya of asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees intercepted or rescued at sea by the Italian authorities. Amnesty International would like to raise a number of concerns ahead of your discussions in the JHA Council with regard to both issues.

08/05/2009 – The EU-Cuba Troika on 11 May 2009 will take place almost a year after the political dialogue which recommenced between the EU and Cuba, following the lifting of EU measures against Cuba in June 2008. It is important that this meeting sends a strong signal that the EU remains committed about putting human rights at the centre of this dialogue.

EU: Support UN probe into violations of international law during Gaza conflict

15/04/2009 – In view of the General Affairs and External Relations Council on 27/28 April 2009, Amnesty International once again calls on the EU to consistently apply its own Guidelines by adopting clear conclusions in favour of full investigation and accountability for violations of international law, including war crimes, committed by both parties in the recent conflict in Gaza and southern Israel.

01/04/2009 – The summit meeting between the USA and EU member states on 5 April 2009 is a historic event. It is historic because it marks the EU‟s first formal discussion with the new US administration, and also because it offers the opportunity to mark a step change in EU-US co-operation. It provides the opportunity to begin to draw to a close the dark chapter of abusive practices, involving states on both sides of the Atlantic, used to combat terrorism, and to open a new chapter in global relations, with both the EU and the USA in a position to show responsible leadership in tackling human rights issues of mutual concern.