24/10/2012 – Amnesty International sent a joint letter today to the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union asking the EU member states to do more for refugees fleeing Syria. The letter sets out clear and practical measures that European states can and should be taking to...
14/09/2012 – Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) to produce a Country of Origin Information report on Afghanistan to support the EU member states in their decisions when assessing application of asylum seekers from Afghanistan. In light of...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU fails to put human rights at the heart of its relations with Israel (Brussels, 27 July 2012) This week the EU announced it would strengthen its bilateral relations with Israel by endorsing a package of 60 new areas of cooperation. Amnesty...
05/07/2012 – Since the end of the conflict that ended the rule of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, Libya has been characterised by increasing lawlessness, fuelled by an inability or unwillingness on the part of the transitional authorities to rein in the hundreds of militias formed during and...
12/06/2012 – Last year, at least 1,500 men, women and children drowned in the Mediterranean struggling to reach Europe. Some of these deaths were avoidable. Delayed rescue costs lives. In recent years, some survivors have been forced back to countries where they faced abuse and ill-treatment....
20/04/2012 – With this letter, we would like to draw your particular attention to the plight of Afghanistan’s substantial displaced population, as documented in Amnesty International’s report Fleeing war, finding misery: The plight of the internally displaced in...
16/02/2012 – This report details widespread and serious abuses, including war crimes, mostly carried out by militias targeting suspected al-Gaddafi loyalists. There are cases of people being unlawfully detained and tortured, sometimes to death. These militia groups are largely out of control...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Deliver on your promises: EU must hold Bahrain to account (Brussels, 14 February 2012) A year after the first peaceful demonstrator was killed by Bahraini security forces, Amnesty International has pressed the EU to ensure that the Government...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Decade of human rights damage: EU must press USA to close Guantánamo (Brussels, 11 January 2012) Today marks the tenth anniversary of the US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay. To coincide with this date, Amnesty International has...