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Tunisia – The Continued Deterioriation of the Human Rights Situation
The continued deterioriation of the human rights situation in Tunisia – Joint letter by human rights organizations to Louis Michel, President-in-office of the Council and Belgian Foreign Minister. Click here to link to French version of letter and report Download PDF attachement
The Asylum Crisis: A Human Rights Challenge for the EU
At this crucial time, with global tensions running high, Amnesty International in Brussels today launched an appeal to EU leaders to show greater moral and political leadership to safeguard the international protection of refugees. The appeal coincides with this week’s Justice and Home...
EU-Iran talks: EU must press for human rights improvements in Iran
As Iran’s Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi arrives in Brussels today for talks on a proposed Cooperation Agreement with the European Union, Amnesty International has called on the EU to ensure that the human rights clause in such an agreement is given real substance, given the deteriorating...
4th EU-China Summit – Open Letter to EU Leaders
Click here to view the annex: “Human Rights in China in 2001 – A New Step Backwards” (Amnesty International Briefing August 2001) Download PDF attachement
EU-China Summit: EU leaders must highlight deteriorating human rights situation in China
Amnesty International calls on the European Union to uphold its own human rights principles by raising China’s deteriorating human rights record at the highest level during the EU-China summit in Brussels on Wednesday 5 September. Amnesty International’s EU Office has released an open...
EU-Bush Summit, Goteborg: Tell the President: Stop Federal Executions, Support the International Criminal Court
Amnesty International says EU leaders must tell the US President he is on a collision course with Europe and much of the rest of the world, on key human rights issues such as the death penalty and the establishment of the International Criminal Court. With Juan Raul Garza due to be executed under...
Human Rights Organisations call for EU Action over Tunisia
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AVOCATS SANS FRONTIÈRES, EURO-MED HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (FIDH), HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, OBSERVATORY FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS, WORLD ORGANIZATION AGAINST...
EU-Russia Summit: Stop turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in Chechnya
As EU leaders prepare to meet the Russian President Vladimir Putin at their summit in Stockholm, Amnesty International demands that they send the Russian leader home with a clear message. “EU leaders must press the Russian President to agree to an international investigation into human rights...