Russian activists awarded European rights prize

19/10/2009 – NGOs call for human rights to be at the centre of the ministerial conference in Brussels.

13/10/2009 – Flyer & agenda. Event supported by: Cordaid, Transnational Institute, Berghof Peace Support, Amnesty International EU Office and Statewatch.

Help end child executions

EU-Brazil Summit – People must be at the heart of discussions

15/09/2009 – Click here to read the letter to the European Presidency prepared by Amnesty International. The briefing prepared by Amnesty International highlights how people held in incommunicado detention under Spanish legislation may be deprived of effective access to a lawyer as well as access to a doctor of their own choice, and are unable to inform their family and friends of their detention.

15/09/2009 – In Spain, people held in incommunicado detention may be deprived of effective access to a lawyer as well as access to a doctor of their own choice, and are unable to inform their family and friends of their detention. Under Spanish law, incommunicado detention can be imposed before or after the detainee is brought before a judicial authority.

06/09/2009 – Letter & briefing on EU-Central Asia Foreign Ministerial & EU-Uzbekistan Cooperation Councilnisterial.

02/09/2009 – Letter and report on “The US Embargo against Cuba: its Impact on Economic and Social Rights” to Commissioners Karel De Gucht and Benito Ferrero-Waldner

02/09/2009 – Letter and report on “The US Embargo against Cuba: its Impact on Economic and Social Rights” to Commissioners Karel De Gucht and Benito Ferrero-Waldner

07/08/2009 – Letter to the Swedish Presidency accompanying the report assessing the current situation and developments over the past year in Georgia and including specific recommendations to all parties, and to the European Union in its own important and growing role in the region.

31/07/2009 – Amnesty International has recently launched a new report entitled The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized. This report is being published on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the revised Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua, which came into force in July 2008. The report examines the consequences of Nicaragua’s total ban on abortion on women and girls who need life-saving medical treatment.