As a critical pledging conference begins today in Brussels, Amnesty International urges that the current African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) is reinforced so that its troops can start effectively protecting civilians in Darfur. Despite the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement in May 2006, and...
18/07/2006 – Civilians in Darfur continue to be killed, raped and forcibly displaced in large numbers. Some 250,000 people have been driven from their homes and from places where they have sought safety since the beginning of 2006. Document Index AFR 54/024/2006 July 2006
07/07/2006 – Amnesty International Statement at the occasion of the Ministerial Euro-African Conference on Migration and Development – Rabat, 10-11 July 2006
07/07/2006 – Communiqué d’Amnesty International a l’occasion de la Conférence Ministérielle euro-africaine sur la Migration et le Développement – Rabat, 10-11 juillet 2006.
12/06/2006 – China is emerging as one of the world’s major arms exporters. It is increasing its reach and influence in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and arms sales are an integral part of the trade links it is developing with countries in these and other parts of the world.
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.
As the European Union High Representative for CFSP Javier Solana holds talks today in Brussels with the Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha, Amnesty International expressed its serious concern at the arrest of Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a leading Sudanese human rights activist and Chair of...
(Kinshasa/Brussels 26 October 2004) With the release today of a new Amnesty International report on the systematic rape and torture of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the human rights organisation is appealing to EU development ministers meeting in the Netherlands to ensure EU aid...
AMNESTY CALLS ON THE EU: RETAIN KEY EU PERSONNEL ON THE GROUND UNTIL UN FORCE IS FULLY OPERATIONAL At a press conference in Brussels this morning, Amnesty International launched a 50-page report documenting the plight of thousands of child soldiers in Africa’s Great Lakes region and called on...