27/11/2014 – Write for Rights was first launched in 2001 as a 24-hour letter writing marathon in Poland. By 2013 it had grown into a global campaign with hundreds of thousands of people from 140 countries taking part.

Corporación Claretiana Norman Pérez Bello -Centro Claretiano de Investigación y Educación Popular Colombia has one of the highest levels of forced displacement in the world and it is patently clear that the authorities are not doing enough to ensure that stolen lands are effectively returned to...

Amnesty International Careful, detailed analysis is needed – not fast-tracking and grandstanding. Amnesty International UK Press Release 26 November 2014 ‘Careful, detailed analysis is needed, not fast-tracking and grandstanding’ – Rachel Logan Responding to the publication...

26/11/2014 – On 20 – 21 November 2014, almost 20 years since its last review, Romania again appeared in front of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). NGOs present during the review sessions are deeply concerned over discriminatory statements by the Romanian...

26/11/2014 – Amnesty International explores how the Victims and Land Restitution Law (Law 1448), implemented in 2012, is failing the vast majority of people whose lands were stolen. Many have been unable to return home due to ongoing threats of violence and the slowness of the restitution...

European Court of Human Rights (c) AI Switzerland A request to the European Court must be lodged within the next two weeks. The clock is ticking. Amnesty International Press Release Allegations that the UK government sanctioned the use of torture and ill-treatment in Northern Ireland in the 1970s...

24/11/2014 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned over reports of excessive use of force and misuse of less-lethal weapons against protesters, ill-treatment of bystanders and attacks against photojournalists and journalists by riot police during and after demonstrations in Athens on 13...

Amnesty International/Anna Shea The humanitarian assistance offered by the international community has been pitifully low, but Turkey also needs to do more to request and facilitate it. Amnesty International Press Release 20 November 2014 The international community’s failure to deal with the...

19/11/2014 – In just over three years, over 3.2 million women, men and children have fled violence, persecution and other intolerable hardships in Syria for the hope of safety and security outside of the country. Neighbouring states have disproportionately shouldered the responsibility to...

13/11/2014 – Tomorrow marks seven years since the European Court of Human Rights found the Czech Republic to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights with respect to unlawful discrimination of Romani pupils in the Czech education system. Seven years on, these violations of the...

© REUTERS/Baz Ratner These continuing civilian deaths – a predictable result of such attacks – are inexcusable and those responsible on both sides must be held accountable. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 6 November 2014 The killing of a schoolboy and an 18-year-old during...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH 5 October 2014 The deaths of two children killed by shelling while they played football on a school playing field in eastern Ukraine must be immediately, fully and impartially investigated, Amnesty International said today. Four other youths were wounded in the...