As the European Commission finalizes its 2002 progress reports on EU Candidate Countries, Amnesty International releases a new report showing that systematic torture in Turkey is continuing despite recent legal reforms. Amnesty International calls on the EU to urge Turkey to set a date for the...

Click here to link to the Amnesty International document, “Turkey: Systematic torture continues in 2002”, (AI index EUR 44/040/2002), September 2002.

Click here to link to document “Concerns in Europe: January-June 2002” (AI index EUR 01/007/2002).

ONE STEP TOWARDS RESTORING THE BALANCE: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WELCOMES SEVILLE SUMMIT SHIFT FROM SANCTIONS TO “COOPERATION” BUT MAINTAINS CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT Commenting on the decision by European Union leaders at Seville to stop short of adding aid sanctions to their...

Amnesty International’s Comments on the Commission’s Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national [COM(2001) 447...

War Against “Illegal Immigration” Puts Human Rights At Risk A week away from the Seville summit, and on the eve of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg, Amnesty International today releases an urgent appeal to EU leaders to step back from the brink in their so-called...

EU war on ‘illegal immigration’ puts human rights at risk Amnesty International Appeal to the Seville Summit 12 June 2002 Lien pour la version FR du document Download PDF attachement

Overview of Amnesty International’s EU Office work undertaken in 2001 Download PDF attachement

Click here to link to Amnesty International document “Concerns in Europe: July-December 2001“ (AI index EUR 01/002/2002).

Speech made by Dick Oosting, Director of the Amnesty International EU Office during the public hearing held at the European Parliament’s Citizens’ Rights Committee 17 April 2002 on the subject of Fundamental Rights within the European Union. Download PDF attachement

Race-related Torture and Ill-treatment by State Agents. Click here to view – Amnesty International Report index EUR 41/001/2002.

Amnesty International letter and Memorandum to EU Officials on the eve of the Euro-Mediterranean Meeting in Valencia 22-23 April 2002. – Click on this link to view letter. – Click on link below to view document. Download PDF attachement