Ahead of the European Union (EU)-African Union (AU) summit on 17-18 February 2022, Amnesty International calls on African and European leaders to deliver on their human rights commitments in policy and practice, as they confront multiple challenges together. At the EU-AU Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meeting in October 2021, both sides re-affirmed their commitment to political dialogue aimed at enhancing human rights and informing the overall AU-EU cooperation.

Today, urgent human rights challenges on the agenda include the following:

• ensuring equal access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and treatments

• protecting human rights in conflict situations

• upholding the rights of refugees and migrants

• safeguarding civil society space, and

• standing for human rights at the multilateral level.

Source: Amnesty International