Dear President Tusk, Dear President Juncker, Dear High Representative/ Vice-President Mogherini, We write regarding the ongoing discussions among European Union (EU) member states about EU-China relations, and ahead of the forthcoming series of EU-China dialogues, culminating in the EU-China Summit...

Spokesperson recently returned from Tunisia where he interviewed migrants and refugees subjected to abuses in Libya Ahead of the meeting of European Home Affairs Ministers, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have today published a 20-point action plan to address the current unsustainable...

• Solidarity vigil TONIGHT Wednesday 20 Feb 18.00 Schuman Roundabout• Short speech from Maside Ocak Kışlakçı, longstanding member of ‘Saturday Mothers’ A member of the ‘Saturday Mothers’ group of women in Istanbul, who have been banned by Turkish authorities from protesting in Istanbul’s...

Reacting to the European Parliament’s condemnation of the ongoing repression and torture of a group of women’s rights defenders detained in Saudi Arabia since May 2018, the Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office Covadonga de la Campa said: ‘The European Parliament’s...

Letter to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, urging the EU to lead efforts to step up action to protect Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in Mexico, and to promote their important work. Download resource

01/10/2018 – Letter to EU HR/VP Federica Mogherini to share reports of human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and to call on the European Union (EU) and its member states to urge the Chinese government to take urgent and effective measures to protect Uighurs,...

01/10/2018 – Letter to H.E. Ambassador Zhang Ming to express concern about reports on human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and to call on the Chinese government to take urgent and effective measures to protect Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim...

While the UN Security Council remains bogged down by politics, the Human Rights Council, with the joint leadership of the European Union and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has stepped up to the challenge with this serious and constructive approach to pave the way for justice AMNESTY...

14/09/2018 – Since October 2016, the Myanmar security forces have driven more than 810,000 Rohingya women, men and children into Bangladesh as a result of successive operations in northern Rakhine State marked by crimes under international law. Security forces killed thousands of Rohingya...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 24 August 2018   Women human rights defenders call on EU foreign affairs ministers for support amid unprecedented crackdown on activists A day before the informal ‘Gymnich’ meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Vienna, women human rights defenders from...

PRESS RELEASE The number of people drowning in the Central Mediterranean or being taken back to squalid detention centres in Libya has surged as a result of European policies aimed at closing the central Mediterranean route, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published today. The...

17/07/2018 – We are writing to urge the European Union (EU) and its member states to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity in Myanmar, and in particular to take the lead in the creation of an international accountability mechanism during the upcoming session on Myanmar at the...