EU-Colombia: EU must demand action on human rights at donors meeting

(Brussels 31 January 2005) In the lead-up to tomorrow’s EU-Uzbekistan Cooperation Council Amnesty International has written to the Luxembourg EU Presidency calling for a more robust approach towards Uzbekistan which Amnesty describes as “now the only executioner in Central Asia”.

31/01/2005 – In view of the forthcoming EU-Uzbekistan Co-operation Council on 1 February 2005, Amnesty International urges the EU to adopt a more robust approach to Uzbekistan’s failure to take tangible steps towards the abolition of the death penalty. Read more (pdf) La lettre est également disponible en français (pdf)

31/01/2005 – In view of the forthcoming EU-Uzbekistan Co-operation Council on 1 February 2005, Amnesty International urges the EU to adopt a more robust approach to Uzbekistan’s failure to take tangible steps towards the abolition of the death penalty. Read more (pdf) La lettre est également disponible en français (pdf)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OPEN LETTER TO THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMISSION ON THE OCCASION OF THE JHA INFORMAL COUNCIL ON 27-29 JANUARY IN LUXEMBOURG

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 the humanitarian organisation Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO).

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE PRESS RELEASE Embargo Date: Monday 6 December 2004 08:00 GMT (09.00 Brussels)

01/12/2004 – Launch of EU Military operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina – Operation ‘ALTHEA’-EUFOR (PDF document)

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24/11/2004 – On the eve of the EU-Russia Summit in The Hague, Amnesty International is presenting the EU with detailed testimonies showing that victims of human rights violations in Chechnya who complain to European institutions have been killed or “disappeared”. (RTF document).

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