Link to Amnesty International document (AI index MDE 02/005/2002, 30 September 2002) – click on title.

Brussels (30 Sept.) As EU foreign ministers meet today to decide the EU’s response to US bilateral agreements aimed at exempting US personnel from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International has handed the Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Moller, the results of its global petition calling on all governments to refuse to enter into any agreement that grants effective immunity from prosecution for crimes under international law.

Amnesty International Decries The EU’s “Poor Example”

Amnesty International report: “People’s Republic of China: serious human rights violations and the crackdown on dissent continue” (AI index AFR 17/047/2002).

On the eve of the summit in Copenhagen between European Union leaders and the Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji, Amnesty International calls on the EU to put an end to the situation where the so-called dialogue on human rights is in effect a monologue which China ignores. Amnesty International urges the Danish EU Presidency to convey to the Chinese leadership that it will no longer accept a dialogue that produces no results whatsoever.

Amnesty International’s observations regarding the “Discussion Paper of key elements for a future Repatriation/ Return program on the basis of the Commission Green Paper” in relation to returns to Afghanistan

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES DETAILED LEGAL ANALYSIS TO EU COUNCIL

AI Index IOR 40/025/2002

Amnesty International today launched an urgent appeal to the EU to call on the newly inaugurated President Uribe of Colombia to prioritise human rights. In letters to the Danish Presidency (available at end of page) and other EU leaders the organization stressed in particular the need to end impunity, to confront and dismantle army-backed paramilitary organizations and to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders and other vulnerable sectors of the civilian population.

EU-LATIN AMERICA SUMMIT: THE EU MUST SET HUMAN RIGHTS BENCHMARKS

Settle the Past, Safeguard the Future: A challenge to the European Union and to Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to Promote and Protect Human Rights in an Evolving Partnership. (AI Index AMR 01/001/2002 – format PDF/Acrobat).

Amnesty International’s Recommendations on the