AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE PRESS RELEASE Embargo Date: Monday 6 December 2004 08:00 GMT (09.00 Brussels) EU-CHINA SUMMIT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES NEW REPORT ON RISKS FACING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN CHINA As Chinese and EU leaders prepare to meet in The Hague this week, Amnesty...

06/12/2004 – Amnesty International Report Index ASA 17/045/2004 – Embargo 0800GMT 6 December 2004 Report focuses specifically on human rights defenders. Those who become openly involved in human rights advocacy in China may face serious human rights violations, including in some cases...

(français ci-après)> />   EU-Russia Summit: Amnesty International calls on EU to address growing persecution of human rights defenders in Chechnya. (Brussels 24 November 2004) On the eve of its summit in The Hague with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow, Amnesty International is...

Amnesty International is urging the Irish EU Presidency to insert stronger language on the protection of human rights defenders into the conclusions of the EU-Latin America summit in Mexico today (28 May) and make this issue a priority in discussions with regional leaders in particular from Mexico...

COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT NOT GIVING THE WHOLE STORY SAYS AMNESTY: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND CIVILIANS STILL UNDER THREAT As EU leaders and members of the European Parliament prepare to welcome the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to Brussels and Strasbourg today and tomorrow, Amnesty International...

(Dublin/Brussels 12 January 2004) As the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern prepares to address the European Parliament this week on how Ireland intends to guide the EU through the next six months, Amnesty International is calling for serious improvements in EU human rights policy inside Europe. Amnesty...

Amnesty International has today released a Memorandum to the European Union and EU member states (available see 1 & 2 at end of page) calling for the EU’s urgent attention to the plight of human rights defenders, during a series of meetings with Latin American and Caribbean ministers this...

Amnesty International Memorandum to the European Union and EU Member States: addressing dangers and difficulties faced by human rights defenders in Latin America and Caribbean States. Cover page Text of document

25/03/2003 – Amnesty International Memorandum to the European Union and EU Member States: addressing dangers and difficulties faced by human rights defenders in Latin America and Caribbean States.

On the eve of the summit in Copenhagen between European Union leaders and the Chinese prime minister Zhu Rongji, Amnesty International calls on the EU to put an end to the situation where the so-called dialogue on human rights is in effect a monologue which China ignores. Amnesty International...

Amnesty International today launched an urgent appeal to the EU to call on the newly inaugurated President Uribe of Colombia to prioritise human rights. In letters to the Danish Presidency (available at end of page) and other EU leaders the organization stressed in particular the need to end...

QUESTIONS FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO: JAVIER SOLANA JOSEP PIQUE PER STIG MØLLER CHRIS PATTEN OPEN LETTER FROM DICK OOSTING, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE Dear Sirs, On the eve of the EU mission to Algeria this week (Wednesday 5 June), Amnesty International wishes to put some very pressing...