AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE PRESS RELEASE Embargo Date: Monday 6 December 2004 08:00 GMT (09.00 Brussels) EU-CHINA SUMMIT: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RELEASES NEW REPORT ON RISKS FACING HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN CHINA As Chinese and EU leaders prepare to meet in The Hague this week, Amnesty...

06/12/2004 – Amnesty International Report Index ASA 17/045/2004 – Embargo 0800GMT 6 December 2004 Report focuses specifically on human rights defenders. Those who become openly involved in human rights advocacy in China may face serious human rights violations, including in some cases...

01/12/2004 – Launch of EU Military operation in Bosnia-Herzegovina – Operation ‘ALTHEA’-EUFOR (PDF document)

(français ci-après)> />   EU-Russia Summit: Amnesty International calls on EU to address growing persecution of human rights defenders in Chechnya. (Brussels 24 November 2004) On the eve of its summit in The Hague with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow, Amnesty International is...

24/11/2004 – On the eve of the EU-Russia Summit in The Hague, Amnesty International is presenting the EU with detailed testimonies showing that victims of human rights violations in Chechnya who complain to European institutions have been killed or “disappeared”. (RTF document).

(version française ci-après) (Brussels 2 November 2004) In the lead-up to the EU Summit this week in Brussels, Amnesty International has today released an Open Letter to EU Heads of State and Government urging the EU to match its ambition to promote fundamental rights with concrete...

(Kinshasa/Brussels 26 October 2004) With the release today of a new Amnesty International report on the systematic rape and torture of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the human rights organisation is appealing to EU development ministers meeting in the Netherlands to ensure EU aid...

30/09/2004 – A report by European Union non-governmental organisations. EU arms controls are not strong enough to prevent weapons from falling into the wrong hands, a coalition of 55 European NGOs warned. They said there were major loopholes in the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports, which...

01/09/2004 – Presentation by Dick Oosting, Director, Amnesty International EU Office to the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence (Word document).

(version française ci-après) AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EU OFFICE PRESS RELEASE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES THE DUTCH EU PRESIDENCY TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN RHETORIC AND PRACTICE IN EU HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY (The Hague/Brussels 29 June 2004) In its recommendations to the Dutch EU Presidency...

(version française ci-après) EU-US Summit: End the EU’s embarassing silence on US torture ( 24/6/2004 ) Open Letter from Amnesty International to the European Union In an Open Letter released on the eve of the EU-US summit in Ireland, Amnesty International calls on the Irish Presidency of the...

Amnesty International is urging the Irish EU Presidency to insert stronger language on the protection of human rights defenders into the conclusions of the EU-Latin America summit in Mexico today (28 May) and make this issue a priority in discussions with regional leaders in particular from Mexico...