01/09/2004 – Presentation by Dick Oosting, Director, Amnesty International EU Office to the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence (Word document).
05/08/2004 – In preparation for consideration of the multiannual programme building the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) which will take place in autumn 2004, Amnesty International (AI) takes this opportunity to put forward certain areas that it considers to be of paramount...
(version française ci-après) AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE PRESS RELEASE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES THE DUTCH EU PRESIDENCY TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN RHETORIC AND PRACTICE IN EU HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY (The Hague/Brussels 29 June 2004) In its recommendations to the Dutch EU Presidency...
MEDIA NOTIFICATION AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ASSESSES THE TAMPERE AGENDA In a short analysis document released in Brussels today, Amnesty International answers the question: Is the EU now more free, secure and just as a result of the Tampere agenda The 7-page document: “The European Union –...
02/06/2004 – AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S HUMAN RIGHTS ASSESSMENT OF THE TAMPERE AGENDA. The first stage of the so-called “Tampere” agenda is now over. The agenda, agreed at the Tampere EU Summit of 1999, set out the basis for the EU’s goal of constructing an “Area of Freedom, Security and...
14/05/2004 – Arms exports controls in the expanded European Union are dangerously ineffective and stringent new regulations are urgently needed to protect human rights and safeguard people’s security
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON REFUGEES AND EXILES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH In an unprecedented move, refugee and human rights organisations across Europe are jointly calling on the European Union to scrap one of the key elements leading to the proposed Common European Asylum System. The...