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Portugal EU-Africa: Summit Should Take Concrete Steps to Tackle Rights Abuses Protect Civilians in Darfur and Somalia European and African leaders should go beyond promises and act to end atrocities, hold abusers to account and combat corruption, Human Rights Watch said today. The first European Union-Africa summit for seven years will be held in Lisbon on December 8-9, 2007. December 4, 2007 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version European Union: Portugal Should Champion Human Rights Portugal should use its presidency of the European Union to step up the defense of rights worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. Portugal takes over the rotating EU Presidency from Germany for six months beginning on July 1. June 26, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Betraying human rights in Russia By Allison Gill Published in Público When he was here last week, Prime Minister Jose Socrates told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that there would be no more European Union moralizing about Russia’s human rights record, saying that “no one should claim to lecture anyone else" [“ninguém pretenda dar lições a ninguém"]. This was a victory for Putin’s increasingly authoritarian policies, a terrible blow to Russia’s besieged civil society, and a bad omen for Portugal’s upcoming presidency of the European Union. June 11, 2007 Commentary Also available in
Printer friendly version European Parliament: Condemn Complicity in Illegal CIA Activity The European Parliament should condemn European complicity in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program of “extraordinary renditions” and secret detention of prisoners, Human Rights Watch said today. February 12, 2007 Press Release Printer friendly version Portugal: Child Soldiers Global Report 2001 From the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers There are no indications of under-18s in government armed forces. Portugal recently made changes to its recruitment legislation: conscription is no longer practised and the age for voluntary recruitment is firmly set at 18. June 12, 2001 Multi Country Report Portugal: Landmine Monitor Report 2000 Key developments since March 1999: The Mine Ban Treaty entered into force for Portugal on 1 August 1999. For the first time Portugal publicly revealed details of its AP mine stockpile, when it reported possessing 272,410 mines in its Article 7 report. Portugal signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, and deposited its instrument of ratification at the United Nations on 19 February 1999. The treaty entered into force for Portugal on 1 August 1999.0 The treaty was incorporated into national legislation by virtue of publication in the Diário da República (the official journal of Portuguese legislation), but this did not constitute full implementation legislation with penal sanctions. August 1, 2000 Multi Country Report
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