21/03/2013 – Ahead of the EU-Japan Summit, and following Japan’s rejection of key recommendations made in the 14th session of the Universal Periodic Review related to the death penalty, the daiyo kangoku substitute detention system, and justice for survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system, Amnesty International calls on the EU to press Japan to address its serious human rights failings. We particularly urge you to raise the following concerns.

08/02/2012 – The 12th EU-India Summit, to be held in New Delhi on 10 February, offers both sides an opportunity to demonstrate that human rights are genuinely at the heart of this important strategic partnership, particularly while discussing human rights concerns in India and the EU, cooperation in multilateral fora, and the future EU-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

01/07/2011 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the current situation of human rights lawyers in China, and urges the EU to call on the Chinese government to guarantee space for lawyers to exercise their profession. Human rights lawyers are at serious risk of being picked up and vanishing into a legal limbo, with forcible disappearance or arbitrary detention on the increase. Alarmingly, incidences of torture and other ill-treatment appear to be on the rise.