Amnesty International today calls on the Italian EU Presidency to urgently address the continuing serious human rights situation in Algeria, in view of the EU-Algeria Association Agreement, signed in April 2002 and soon to be ratified by all parties. The call coincides with the release of Amnesty...
At the simultaneous launch in Brussels and Rome today of Amnesty International’s Six-Monthly Assessment of EU Human Rights Policy*, the organization says the European Union is lacking focus on human rights both at home and abroad, and calls for leadership from the Italian government to shape...
Amnesty International has today sent an urgent letter to the President of the European Council, George Papandreou, calling on the European Union and EU Member States on the United Nations Security Council, to actively support the inclusion of the following human rights provisions in the Draft UN...
Amnesty International Briefing on the EU Return Plan to Afghanistan for the EU-JHA Council, 8 May 2003 See also the press release dated 6 May 2003 “EU-Afghanistan: not safe to return refugees says Amnesty“. Download PDF attachement
As the European Union prepares to launch a major programme this Thursday (EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, Brussels) to repatriate refugees to Afghanistan, Amnesty International calls on the EU to pull back from any plans for the moment. (document available link at end of page: “Amnesty...