COLOMBIAN VICE-PRESIDENT AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TOMORROW

14/09/2005 – Amnesty International welcomes the deployment of EU and ASEAN monitors to Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) province, Indonesia, to oversee the implementation of the peace agreement which was signed by the Indonesian Government and the armed pro-independence group, GAM (The Free Aceh Movement, Gerakan Aceh Merdeka) on 15 August 2005.

(Brussels, 6 September 2005) As the largest democracy in the world, India should lead by example in human rights protection in Asia by abolishing the death penalty, and the EU could use tomorrow’s EU-India summit to press India to do so, says Amnesty International.

Amnesty International releases update on EU areas of concern

On the eve of the 16th anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing, Amnesty International calls for justice for those who lost their lives on 3-4 June, 1989. The organisation also calls for the release of those imprisoned in 1989 or jailed since for seeking a reassessment of events at Tiananmen.

New report from Amnesty International released today

EU-Cina: Javier Solana must press the Chinese Foreign Minister over human rights

Amnesty International reports growing harassment of activists in China

Amnesty International has today issued an “update” to its December report on the risks faced by human rights activists in China.  The original report was released in the lead-up to the last EU-China summit (see: Download PDF attachement

Amnesty International has today issued an “update” to its December report on the risks faced by human rights activists in China.  The original report was released in the lead-up to the last EU-China summit. (see: People’s Republic of China: Human Rights Defenders at Risk, December 2004).