AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   EU must press USA to resolve ‘war-on-terror’ legacy   (Brussels, 28 November 2011) As the EU-US Summit convenes in Washington, Amnesty International has urged the European Union to challenge the USA for its continued imprisonment without...

22/11/2011 – As Egypt’s army and security forces violently attempt to disperse protesters from Cairo’s Tahrir Square and elsewhere in the country, Amnesty International’s latest report describes the Egyptian authorities’ woeful performance on human rights.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Decade of evasion: Time for EU to confront post-9/11 abuses (Brussels, 7 September 2011) As the world prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the United States, Amnesty International has appealed to European Union countries to acknowledge...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Lithuania must come clean on CIA prisons (Brussels, 19 May 2011) A report published today by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has criticised Lithuania’s Prosecutor General for failing to investigate fully whether CIA detainees were held...

13/10/2009 – Flyer & agenda. Event supported by: Cordaid, Transnational Institute, Berghof Peace Support, Amnesty International EU Office and Statewatch.

14/07/2009 – On 15-17 July, the EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (JHA) will meet in Stockholm to discuss the next multi-annual programme in the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) on the basis of the Commission’s Communication of 10 June 2009: An area of freedom, security and...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reprieve, and the Center for Constitutional Rights held a Press Conference ahead of next week’s meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers on: Closing Guantanamo: How can the EU and its Member States help end a human rights scandal...

European Parliament Resolution on CIA renditions: Positive step after two years (Brussels, 19 February 2009) Amnesty International welcomes the news that two long years after the European Parliament’s report on European complicity in illegal CIA renditions, the Parliament today is going to...

Offer Humanitarian Protection to Detainees Who Risk Torture or Persecution at Home (Brussels, January 22, 2009) – A coalition of human rights organizations today called on EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels next week to help close the Guantánamo Bay prison by offering...

Amnesty International welcomes President Obama’s first act in office: the call for a temporary halt and review of all military tribunals. This is an important signal of recognition by the new US administration that trials taking place under the Military Commissions Act are deeply flawed and...

(Brussels, 16 December) By not allowing oral questions on Guantanamo and CIA illegal renditions in this week’s plenary session, the European Parliament (EP) is directly avoiding its responsibilities, says Amnesty International. “At a time when there are concrete developments one would...

60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Time to Deliver (Brussels, 9 December) Amnesty International today called on the EU to make tomorrow’s 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) a time for action as well as celebration. Although the EU has...