(Brussels, 10 May 2006) The fate of those who risk their lives to promote human rights should be a prime concern of the EU-Latin America and Caribbean Summit, says Amnesty International.
05/05/2006 – Amnesty International submission to the first ACP Ministerial meeting on asylum and immigration (11-13 April 2006). Amnesty International believes that sustainable development can only be based on the respect, protection and fulfilment of the human rights of all people.
05/04/2006 – Renditions involve the transfer of people from one country to another in ways that bypass all judicial and administrative due process. In the context of the “war on terror”, this practice has usually been initiated by the USA and carried out with the collaboration, complicity or acquiescence of other governments.
(Brussels, 23 February 2006) On the day that the European Parliament conducts formal hearings on suspected Member States complicity in CIA abuses, Amnesty International releases a report showing how the United Kingdom has been carrying out a sustained attack on universal human rights standards, well beyond the issue of rendition flights, through its draconian counter terrorism practices.
(Brussels, 15 February 2006) Impunity and attacks on freedom of expression are threatening the upcoming Congressional and Presidential elections in Colombia, says Amnesty International, in the run-up to a visit by the Andean Delegation of the European Parliament.
15/02/2006 – The rights of journalists, election candidates and elected officials to campaign without fear of repercussion. Summary of Amnesty International’s latest findings.
10/01/2006 – Four years after the first detainees were transferred to the US naval base of Guantánamo Bay, hundreds of people of various nationalities continue to be held there without charge or trial in what Amnesty International has previously called a legal black hole.
14/11/2005 – Open letter by Amnesty International to the UK Presidency of the EU on the occasion of the EU-US Troika that was due to take place on 16 November 2005. The meeting was consequently cancelled and not re-scheduled (Version française également disponible). The letter makes reference to the report titled ‘US/Yemen: Secret Detention in CIA “Black Sites”‘ just released by Amnesty.
14/11/2005 – Three Yemeni nationals had “disappeared” in 2003, kept in complete isolation in a series of secret detention centres apparently run by US agents. These cases documented in this report suggest that the network of clandestine interrogation centres is not reserved solely for high-value detainees, but may be larger, more comprehensive and better organized than previously suspected.
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New report from Amnesty International released today