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30/06/2009 – Joint Amnesty International and ECCJ submission on the Green Paper on the Review of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of judgements in civil and commercial matters.

11/07/2005 – In view of today’s ceremony commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Amnesty International calls on the European Union to ensure that EUFOR finally shows the resolve to detain those indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and hand them over to the ICTY.

Amnesty International’s legal experts have released a 25-page legal analysis of the conclusions of the EU Foreign Ministers meeting of 30 September which agreed common guidelines for bilateral agreements with the United States on immunity for US citizens from the International Criminal Court.

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: The need for the European Union to take more effective steps to prevent members from signing US impunity agreements (AI index IOR 40/030/2002).

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 Decries The EU’s “Poor Example”

AI Index IOR 40/025/2002

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES DETAILED LEGAL ANALYSIS TO EU COUNCIL

As the United Nations Security Council prepares to discuss proposals today (15.00 New York time) which would exempt UN peacekeepers from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International is calling on European Union governments to reject them.