EU Must Demand That Israel Honours Its Human Rights Commitments

URGENT APPEAL FROM:

Link to Amnesty International document (AI index MDE 02/005/2002, 30 September 2002) – click on title.

Brussels (30 Sept.) As EU foreign ministers meet today to decide the EU’s response to US bilateral agreements aimed at exempting US personnel from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International has handed the Danish foreign minister, Per Stig Moller, the results of its global petition calling on all governments to refuse to enter into any agreement that grants effective immunity from prosecution for crimes under international law.

Amnesty International’s observations regarding the “Discussion Paper of key elements for a future Repatriation/ Return program on the basis of the Commission Green Paper” in relation to returns to Afghanistan

EU MEDITERRANEAN MINISTERIAL MEETING:

Text of an urgent letter sent to senior EU Foreign and Security Policy representatives by Amnesty International, regarding the critical situation in the Occupied Territories.

Amnesty International letter and Memorandum to EU Officials on the eve of the Euro-Mediterranean Meeting in Valencia 22-23 April 2002.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE

For further information links to other Amnesty International documents:

As the European Commission and the President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika prepare to initial an EU-Algeria Association Agreement in Brussels tomorrow (Wednesday 19 December), Amnesty International says the fact this event is going ahead shows the EU’s human rights clause is now clearly not worth the paper it is written on.

Letter to Mr Louis Michel, President of the Council of the European Union and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium.