07/09/2012 – The sinking of a boat carrying migrants towards the southern Italian island of Lampedusa underscores why European Union governments need to do more to rescue and assist destitute people who arrive on its shores, Amnesty International said.

09/08/2012 – Ahead of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples, we wish to draw your attention to the discrimination and serious challenges which indigenous peoples continue to face daily throughout the Americas in their attempts to claim the right to consultation and free, prior and...

23/07/2012 – Amnesty International welcomed a new European Parliament (EP) report that again urges implicated EU member states to investigate their involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programmes.

13/07/2012 – The report offers disturbing evidence of the various torture methods the security forces use and details how police intimidation and corruption contribute to a climate of impunity.

10/07/2012 – Pakistan’s human rights situation remains poor, and security and intelligence officials are often complicit in violations.

10/07/2012 – We are also concerned about prolonged detention without trial and violations of the right to a fair trial in cases which involve perceived or real political opponents of the HAT or people belonging to the political party of former president, Marc Ravalomanana.

03/07/2012 – The attached list of voting recommendations addresses specific amendments proposed by both the rapporteur and other MEPs and our position on each amendment.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   EU must halt torture trade   (Brussels, 28 April 2012) In the week that the world commemorates the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, new evidence released by Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation has underlined the...

26/06/2012 – The report on European complicity in the CIA rendition and secret detention programmes led by Hélène Flautre MEP is being finalised in the LIBE committee and will be put to vote on 10 July. Today, Amnesty International launches its Unlock The Truth in Europe...

25/06/2012 – The situation in the North Caucasus remains extremely unstable. Law enforcement agencies responding to armed groups have shown scant regard for the rule of law and continue to engage in human rights abuses with total impunity.

14/06/2012 – With the imminent hearing on 21 June by the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights on the Guidelines to European Union (EU) policy towards third countries on torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (hereafter ’torture and ill-treatment‘...

13/06/2012 – Amnesty International’s report We can run away from bombs, but not from hunger: Sudan’s refugees in South Sudan documents widespread human rights violations faced by civilians from Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states owing to the continuing conflict there, and the...