01/09/2013 – Joint Briefing on the European Commission Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation coordinated by the European Agency for the Management of...

15/08/2013 – The Treaties of the European Union state that the EU is founded on the value of respect for human rights. As outlined in the EU Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy – adopted by the Council of the EU in June 2012 – this means both ensuring that the...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Hungary: Murder convictions are 'wake-up call' over hate crimes against Roma (London, 6 August 2013) The Hungarian authorities must do more to protect minority groups from hate crimes, Amnesty International urged today after four people were found...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Greece: Protest march to call for immediate end to push-backs of refugees and migrants   (Lesvos, 19 July 2013) Today, more than 60 human rights activists from 20 countries will demand that the Greek authorities immediately end push-backs of refugees...

16/07/2013 – Following the vote of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee of the European Parliament to adopt the Directive on the right of criminal suspects to access a lawyer and to communicate with consular officials and other third parties upon arrest (the “Directive”),...

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12/07/2013 – Amnesty International is concerned that the prime minister of Malta made a number of statements between 4 and 9 July 2013 indicating that Malta could resort to push-backs of boats of foreign nationals and collective expulsions of individuals already within Maltese jurisdiction....

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Lithuanian EU presidency must ensure accountability for human rights abuses   (Brussels, 11 July 2013) As Lithuania assumes the six-monthly rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union for the first time, Amnesty International has today...

A survivor’s journey after female genital mutilation Leyla Hussein is an anti-FGM activist, psychotherapist, ‘Strong Voice’ of Amnesty International’s END FGM European Campaign and co-founder of Daughters of Eve, a charity dedicated to ending gender-based violence including female genital...

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03/07/2013 – Hungary’s downward slide on protecting the rule of law and human rights is extremely worrying, and must be stopped.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   EU must pressure Bahrain to free prisoners of conscience   (Brussels, 1 July 2013) As officials from the EU and the Gulf States meet today in Bahrain for their annual ministerial meeting, Amnesty International is urging the EU to call publicly for the...