EU-Bahrain Cooperation Agreement Must Depend on Human Rights Improvements Your Excellencies, In light of the meeting between Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and the European Union scheduled to take place in Brussels on 10 February 2021, we are writing to raise concerns about the deterioration...

Joint open letter to the EU and its member states Dear High Representative, Dear Foreign Ministers, We are writing ahead of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Council discussion on Egypt to raise our serious concerns, once again, about the human rights crisis unfolding in the country, and to urge the...

Earlier this week, more than 278 lawmakers from across Europe and the United States sent public letters to Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with a strong message denouncing the situation of prisoners of conscience in the country. In a show of mounting concern, 84 members of the European...

This paper outlines Amnesty International’s key recommendations to the EU and EU member states participating in the Brussels IV Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region. Over the past year, parties to the conflict in Syria have continued to commit serious violations of...

President MichelEuropean Council High Representative BorrellEuropean External Action Service Commissionner VárhelyiEuropean Commission Dear President Michel,Dear High Representative Borrell,Dear Commissioner Várhelyi, We are writing to urge you to lead a comprehensive review of the EU’s relations...

The European Union (EU) and its member states are falling short on their commitment to support and protect human rights defenders (HRDs) who are facing mounting deadly threats and attacks, a new Amnesty International report out today shows.  ...

Around the world, people are speaking up and working to defend human rights, frequently at risk to their safety, freedom or life. They are harassed and intimidated, unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned. Some are tortured, killed or forcibly disappeared. Many states have introduced restrictive laws to...

The severe crackdown on civil society in Saudi Arabia, especially since 2011 and more acutely since May 2018, has not been matched by a clear or resolute EU strategy to ensure the support and protection of HRDs. The policies of the EU and its member states have instead been characterized by...

Reacting to the onward voyage of the Saudi Arabian state shipping company’s vessel, the Bahri Yanbu, from the Spanish port of Santander this afternoon, Ara Marcen Naval, Deputy Director for Arms Control and Human Rights at Amnesty International, said: “Laden with arms that will likely be used in...

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...

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...

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...