If the EU wants 2007 to be “European Year of Equal Opportunities”, it needs to ensure as of now that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people can freely express, assemble and associate in countries such as Poland and Latvia.

20/07/2006 – Letter to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla regarding Amnesty International’s concerns on freedom of assembly in Latvia and the climate of discrimination and intimidation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. See also documents: Latvian authorities fail to protect LGBT community Latvia must protect the rights to freedom of assembly and expression for all  

EU pressure to “keep people out” contributing to serious abuse of migrants’ rights

(Brussels, 19 October 2005) With the European Commission due to release its annual monitoring reports on Bulgaria and Romania on 25 October, Amnesty International calls on the European Union to keep up pressure on the two accession countries on some crucial outstanding human rights concerns.

06/04/2005 – 30 cases of young people who were subjected, or allegedly subjected, to serious human rights violations by French police officers between 1991 and 2005. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture or ill-treatment and racist abuse.

09/12/2004 – The objective of the instrument described in the Green Paper is to ‘reinforce the right to liberty and the presumption of innocence in the European Union as a whole… and would decrease unequal treatment of non-resident suspected persons’ . Amnesty International supports this objective and welcomes the exploration of methods by which this objective can best be taken forward.

Amnesty International today calls on the EU to step up its financial and legal support for the fight against trafficking in women, following the release of a new Amnesty report detailing the suffering of women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution in Kosovo.

(Brussels 4 May, 2004) In a report released in Brussels only days after the EU’s historic enlargement, Amnesty International has turned the spotlight on human rights issues in psychiatric hospitals in Romania, which is a candidate for the next wave of EU expansion.