END FGM European Campaign AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE New website tracks EU response to female genital mutilation (Brussels, 8 September 2009) END FGM European Campaign launches its today. The website provides an online identity to the Amnesty International campaign which is committed...

09/07/2009 – Amnesty International is publishing a new report today on maternal health in Peru which documents progress in tackling maternal mortality since the 2006 report, Peru: Poor and excluded women – Denial of the right to maternal and child health.

09/03/2009 – On 8 December 2008 the Council of the European Union adopted the EU Guidelines on Violence Against Women and Girls. On the occasion of International Women‟s Day, Amnesty International calls to the EU to fulfil this commitment by raising the issue of combating violence against...

01/12/2008 – In view of the upcoming EU-Armenia Association Council on 8 December, Amnesty International would like to draw attention to our concerns regarding violence against women in Armenia, which we urge to raise with the Armenian counterparts.

06/03/2008 – To mark International Women’s Day, Amnesty International highlighted the relevance of material in its new Safer Schools report to the implementation of the new EU Guidelines on Children’s Rights

30/07/2007 – Grave conflict-related violations and abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law continue in eastern Chad. Women and girls in the region continue to face rape and other sexual violence at the hands of armed groups.

23/07/2007 – Letter to Dr. Marques Amado at the occasion of the GAERC discussion of possible EU force in Chad

21/06/2005 – Presentation by Dick Oosting, Director of Amnesty International EU Office at the EP Committee on Women’s Rights Public hearing on combating violence against women, 21 June 2005.

Amnesty International today calls on the EU to step up its financial and legal support for the fight against trafficking in women, following the release of a new Amnesty report detailing the suffering of women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution in Kosovo. The report underlines that...