Spokespeople available  Testimony from people returned to Iraq  “My body was left black and blue”  Pushbacks from Poland in full knowledge of abuses by the other side  Asylum-seekers and migrants trying to enter the EU from Belarus and facing pushbacks and other human rights violations on the...

Civil Society Organisations letter ahead of the General Affairs Council on 14 December when EU affairs ministers will hear from the European Commission on the latest developments and take stock of the situation regarding respect for EU values in Hungary and Poland as part of the Article 7 (1) TEU...

Amnesty International would like to express concern over the European Commission’s proposal for a Council Decision on provisional measures for the benefit of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Amnesty International considers the derogations allowed under the instrument unjustifiable and dangerous on...

Civil society organisations writing to the President of the European Commission to raise their strong concerns about the new delay to the publication of the planned Commission proposal on a Sustainable Corporate Governance (SCG)

Croatian authorities have consistently assaulted refugees and migrants and denied them access to asylum, in contravention of European and International law, said Amnesty International, in response to a damning report released by the Council of Europe’s Committee on Prevention of Torture (CPT)...

Responding to the decision by a majority vote of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to begin the formal process of infringement against Turkey for failing to release human rights defender, Osman Kavala, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said: “The message from the...

Spokespeople recently returned from Samos camp available for interview  Asylum-seekers staying in a new EU-funded refugee camp on the island of Samos are being detained illegally by Greek authorities following a yet...

In response to today’s proposals from the European Commission which would allow Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to derogate from EU rules, including by holding asylum-seekers and migrants at the border for 16 weeks with minimal safeguards, Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European...

by Nils Muižnieks, Europe Director, Amnesty International This opinion piece was originally published in the EU Observer At its London headquarters, Amnesty International has a large sign emblazoned in a hallway encouraging you to “Take Injustice Personally”. For activists, this means not becoming...

A Civil Society Statement The European Union institutions have taken a globally-significant step with the proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). Insofar as Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used in all areas of public life, it is vital that the AIA addresses the...

Joint letter from over 100 European civil society and professional organisations working on asylum, migration, humanitarian assistance and human rights, about the continuing humanitarian crisis at the borders between the EU and Belarus.

Amnesty has written to UK and EU negotiators to guarantee human rights protections secured under the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol ‘The rights of people in Northern Ireland cannot be allowed to become a casualty of any trade war’ – Patrick Corrigan Amnesty International has written to UK and EU...