AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

18/04/2011 – Thousands of people who disappeared during the bitter civil war that wracked lebanon from 1975-90 and its aftermath are still missing. some were detained by different parties to the conflict, others may have been killed in the fighting or caught up in the massacres that punctuated the war and dumped in mass graves where their bodies lay unidentified. others simply vanished. Their relatives suffer unrelenting pain and anguish as a result; they remain determined to find out what happened.

Amnesty International Press Release

Amnesty International EU Office Press Release EU-Russia Summit: Dare the EU speak out against human rights abuses in Russia

Amnesty International EU Office Press Release

08/06/2009 – Ten years after the end of the war in Kosovo impunity for enforced disappearances and abductions remains one of the most serious violations of human rights arising from the armed conflict and its aftermath. Enforced disappearances constitute a crime and, in certain circumstances defined in international law, a crime against humanity or a war crime.

Open letter to the EU on fourth anniversary of mass killings in Andizhan

13/05/2009 – On the fourth anniversary of the mass killings in Andizhan in 2005, Amnesty International calls on the EU to use all opportunities available to continue to demand an independent international investigation into these events.

04/11/2008 – More than 70,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed as a result of the conflict and between 3 and 4 million have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Between 15,000 and 30,000 people have also been the victims of enforced disappearances since the start of the conflict and more than 20,000 people have been kidnapped or taken hostage in the past decade.

(Brussels, 10 October) As EU Foreign Ministers prepare to review relations with Uzbekistan, Amnesty International urged them to pursue a clear, consistent and assertive human rights policy. The mass killings of Andizhan of May 2005, in particular, remain a core unresolved issue that the EU cannot ignore at next week’s General Affairs and External Relations Council. (Click here to access the post seminar joint statement.