18/03/2004 – In an Open Letter to the Irish EU Presidency (see below), Amnesty International is calling on the EU to reconsider its apparent decision not to push for United Nations’ monitoring of the human rights situation in Iraq. With EU Foreign Ministers due to discuss this issue at...

With EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers expected to revisit the issue of sending asylum seekers to “safe third countries” (JHA Council Dublin 22-23 January), Amnesty International has released an analysis paper expressing its concerns that common EU standards may be agreed which...

With EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers expected to revisit the issue of sending asylum seekers to “safe third countries” (JHA Council Dublin 22-23 January 2004), Amnesty International has released an alaysis paper expressing its concerns that common EU standards may be agreed which...

Lors du Conseil Justice et Affaires intérieures qui doit se réunir à Dublin les 22 et 23 janvier 2004, les ministres de la Justice et de l’Intérieur de l’Union européenne devraient se pencher une nouvelle fois sur la question de l’envoi des...

Amnesty International document: “ Human rights begin at home. Amnesty International assessment of EU human rights policy. Recommendations to the Irish EU Presidency“. Click here for other useful links on Amnesty International Ireland website.

(Dublin/Brussels 12 January 2004) As the Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern prepares to address the European Parliament this week on how Ireland intends to guide the EU through the next six months, Amnesty International is calling for serious improvements in EU human rights policy inside Europe. Amnesty...

Dublin/Bruxelles – Alors que le Premier ministre irlandais, Bertie Ahern, doit s’adresser cette semaine au Parlement européen pour dévoiler la façon dont l’Irlande entend conduire l’Union européenne (UE) dans les six mois à venir, Amnesty International demande que l’UE mène une politique...

12/01/2004 – Amnesty International document: “Human rights begin at home. Amnesty International assessment of EU human rights policy. Recommendations to the Irish EU Presidency”.

Respect for and promotion of the values on which the Union is based Amnesty International welcomes the European Commission Communication on the application of Article 7 TEU in October 2003 as a first step towards acceptance of a key element in Article 7 TEU, that of adequate monitoring of the...

10/12/2003 – Amnesty International welcomes the European Commission Communication on the application of Article 7 TEU in October 2003 as a first step towards acceptance of a key element in Article 7 TEU, that of adequate monitoring of the situation regarding fundamental rights in the EU in...

04/11/2003 –

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) CIMADE (Service oecumenique d’entraide) FINNISH JURISTS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association) JURA HOMINIS (Italian section of International Commission of Jurists) JUSTICE NJCM (Dutch...