(Brussels, 28 June 2005) A strong human rights agenda can help the European Union overcome its political and institutional crisis and reaffirm the EU as a Union of values, says Amnesty International in its recommendations to the UK Presidency of the EU.
20/06/2005 – The treatment of foreign nationals detained in ‘temporary stay and assistance centres’ (CPTAs) (Versione italiana ugualmente disponibile).
20/06/2005 – The report describes the barriers blocking the way of many people who are fleeing persecution and serious abuses in their country of origin, and the situation which refugees, asylum-seekers and immigrants encounter when they arrive at Spain’s southern border (Melilla, Ceuta, the Canary Islands and the Andalusian coast), one of the European borders with the highest influx of immigrants (Versión española disponible).
20/06/2005 – This background document looks at new legislation and the treatment of refugees and asylum-seekers in a number of European countries, including Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany etc, over the year 2004 (Version française disponible).
Amnesty international releases reports on UK, Spain, Italy
(Brussels, Wednesday 6 April, 2005) Serious human rights abuses in one EU Member State should be of concern to the EU as a whole, Amnesty International said today on the release of its report detailing police brutality in France over the past decade.
06/04/2005 – 30 cases of young people who were subjected, or allegedly subjected, to serious human rights violations by French police officers between 1991 and 2005. Such violations included unlawful killings, excessive use of force, torture or ill-treatment and racist abuse.
06/04/2005 – Une trentaine d’affaires de graves violations des droits humains, avérées ou présumées, commises par des policiers français, le plus souvent contre des jeunes, entre 1991 et 2005. Ces violations ont pris la forme d’homicides illégaux, de recours abusifs à la force, d’actes de torture ou autres mauvais traitements et d’injures racistes.
Amnesty International calls on the European Commission to take action against Italy
21/03/2005 – Amnesty International has today sent an urgent letter to the European Commissioner for Justice Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini on Italy’s forcible return to Libya of people arriving by boat on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
31/01/2005 – In view of the forthcoming EU-Uzbekistan Co-operation Council on 1 February 2005, Amnesty International urges the EU to adopt a more robust approach to Uzbekistan’s failure to take tangible steps towards the abolition of the death penalty. Read more (pdf) La lettre est également disponible en français (pdf)