07/03/2014 – Amnesty International has today launched Injustice Incorporated: Corporate Abuses and the Human Right to Remedy (Injustice Incorporated). The book aims to advance the right to remedy for victims and survivors of corporate human rights abuses. It focuses not just on challenges but...

Syrians living in refugee camps in Lebanon. © Amnesty International PRESS RELEASE VOICES OF EUROPE UNITE TO HELP SYRIA’S REFUGEES Civil society campaign calls on EUROPE to ACT NOW (6 March 2014. Brussels) The European Council of Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) together with over 100 partners...

When Al Jazeera hosted a global day of action for their imprisoned staff members in late February, thousands of people in more than 30 cities took part. © SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International One brisk but unseasonably sunny winter morning I found...

A group of artisanal miners sift through ores found in a stream close to Congo International Mining Corporation (CIMCO)’s plant in Luisha. © Amnesty International It’s absolutely critical that the EU enforces existing international standards. Anything short of a mandatory reporting obligation...

04/03/2014 – Further to Amnesty International’s October 2013 report on the use of armed drones and ahead of the March EU-US summit, we urge the US administration to ensure independent, impartial investigations into credible reports of potentially unlawful deaths from US drone strikes,...

27/02/2014 – Further to the Director-General of DG Justice Ms Françoise Le Bail’s refusal to our access to information request, please find attached a confirmatory application regarding access to documents in relation to the ongoing investigations into alleged Roma discrimination in Italy.

27/02/2014 – We are writing ahead of tomorrow’s vote by the Parliament on its annual resolution on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (Louis Michel report).

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL News Flash 26 February 2014 Today, European Union (EU) member states took a first step towards strengthening the transparency and accountability of the social and environmental impact of businesses and their operations. After long and intense negotiations with the European...

© Tamimi Press AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ‘Trigger-happy’ Israeli army and police use reckless force in the West Bank (27 February 2014) Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West...

26/02/2014 – Five Lithuanian legislative proposals with serious human rights implications have come to our attention. These proposals include legislation banning gender reassignment surgery, legislation prohibiting same-sex adoption, and legislation relating to public events which could be...

24/02/2014 – (Brussels, 24 February 2014) Amnesty International is disappointed that the European Union (EU) member states refused last week to approve a compromise text to support the European Commission’s legal initiative to strengthen the transparency and accountability of European...

In what was clearly a show trial, a Moscow court found guilty eight defendants in the Bolotnaya case. © Pierre-Yves Brunaud/ AI France The defendants in this trial were confronted by abusive use of force by police. Some of them sought to prevent violence, others to protect themselves. A few...