31/01/2005 – In view of the forthcoming EU-Uzbekistan Co-operation Council on 1 February 2005, Amnesty International urges the EU to adopt a more robust approach to Uzbekistan’s failure to take tangible steps towards the abolition of the death penalty. Read more (pdf) La lettre est également disponible en français (pdf)
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).
24/11/2004 – On the eve of the EU-Russia Summit in The Hague, Amnesty International is presenting the EU with detailed testimonies showing that victims of human rights violations in Chechnya who complain to European institutions have been killed or “disappeared”. (RTF document).
(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.
30/09/2004 – A report by European Union non-governmental organisations. EU arms controls are not strong enough to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands, a coalition of 55 European NGOs warned. They said there were major loopholes in the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, which must be strengthened without delay. (41 pages PDF format). Links: related press release German engine bypass EU embargoes to China and Myanmar/Burma EU components in helicopters in Nepal Production of Austrian military small arms shifted to Malaysia