COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE CONJOINT DU CONSEIL EUROPÉEN SUR LES RÉFUGIÉS ET LES EXILÉS (CERE), DU BUREAU EUROPÉEN D’AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ET DE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DROIT D’ASILE: Dans toute l’Europe, des organisations de défense des droits humains et des réfugiés demandent a l’Union...

10/03/2004 – Amnesty International’s comments on the follow up to the study on the single asylum procedure: «”one stop shop” against the background of the Common european asylum system and the goal of a common asylum procedure» (Word document)

COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT NOT GIVING THE WHOLE STORY SAYS AMNESTY: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND CIVILIANS STILL UNDER THREAT As EU leaders and members of the European Parliament prepare to welcome the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to Brussels and Strasbourg today and tomorrow, Amnesty International...

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...

(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...

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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...

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AMNESTY LAUCHES 40-PAGE ANALYSIS IN LEAD-UP TO EU SUMMIT ALSO RELEASED: OPEN LETTER TO EU HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT ON THE COMMON ASYLUM POLICY With this week’s Thessaloniki EU summit set to discuss UK/European Commission proposals on extra-territorial processing of asylum claims, Amnesty...

Amnesty International Launches 40-Page Analysis in Lead-Up to EU Summit Also Released: Open Letter to EU Heads of State and Government on the Common Asylum Policy Click links below to view documents: Cover page for document “UK/EU/UNHCR: Unlawful and Unworkable- extra-territorial processing...

Amnesty International Briefing on the EU Return Plan to Afghanistan for the EU-JHA Council, 8 May 2003 See also the press release dated 6 May 2003 “EU-Afghanistan: not safe to return refugees says Amnesty“. Download PDF attachement