Arms export controls in the expanded European Union are dangerously ineffective and stringent new regulations are urgently needed to protect human rights and safeguard people’s security, Amnesty International said today. In a comprehensive report released today (Friday 14 May) in Brussels and...
29/03/2004 – English version: Refugee and human rights organisations across Europe are jointly calling on the European Union to scrap one of the key elements leading to the proposed Common European Asylum System.
18/03/2004 – In an Open Letter to the Irish EU Presidency (see below), Amnesty International is calling on the EU to reconsider its apparent decision not to push for United Nations’ monitoring of the human rights situation in Iraq. With EU Foreign Ministers due to discuss this issue at...
20/01/2004 – With EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers expected to revisit the issue of sending asylum seekers to “safe third countries” (JHA Council Dublin 22-23 January 2004), Amnesty International has released an alaysis paper expressing its concerns that common EU standards...
As the Italian Presidency and the European Commission prepare for tomorrow’s EU-Tunisia Association Council in Brussels, Amnesty International has released a briefing paper detailing its concerns about draft “anti-terrorism” legislation currently before the Tunisian parliament...