07/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch have sent an appeal to the European Parliament to create a Human Rights Committee in the second half of its legislature. A press release on the preliminary decision by the Conference of Presidents not to create a fully-fledged committee which still needs to be confirmed by the 12 December plenary, describes the EP's Foreign Affairs Committee as "overburdened, giving...