AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI index: EUR 25/006/201117 March 2011 Greece must urgently remedy deplorable detention conditions Amnesty International has called on the Greek authorities to act immediately to remedy the deplorable conditions endured by prisoners and foreign nationals who...

17/03/2011 – On International Women’s Day 2011, Amnesty International expressed its profound concerns at last minute efforts by some Council of Europe member states to unravel key provisions in a new European treaty on violence against women.

15/03/2011 – Amnesty International has written to the Hungarian Presidency to draw their attention to our latest report published on 16 March 2011 entitled  Parallel lives: Roma denied rights to housing and water in Slovenia. The report reveals that many Romani families in...

15/03/2011 – Amnesty International analyses the routine abuse of Slovenia’s Romany people who are deprived of adequate housing, water and sanitation. The human rights organisation reveals the Slovenian government’s failure to uphold its EU obligations to treat its Roma population...

15/03/2011 – Amnesty International has written the European Commission to draw their attention to our latest report published on 16 March 2011 entitled Parallel lives: Roma denied rights to housing and water in Slovenia. The report reveals that many Romani families in that country are living...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Don’t deal with despotic regimes: EU must learn its lesson (Brussels, 9 March) One month after Hosni Mubarak’s forced resignation and ahead of the 11 March Extraordinary European Council, Amnesty International has urged the European Union radically to...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Croatian human rights at top of EU accession agenda (Brussels, 3 March 2011) Amnesty International has welcomed a European Commission report calling for swifter reform of the Croatian justice system and improvements in the country’s human rights record. The...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (FIDH) AND OXFAM Joint Press Release NGOs call on EU urgent action to stop violence in Libya (Brussels, 25 February 2011) As Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal crackdown continues, the European Union must act swiftly to...

PRESS RELEASE ‘Do the right thing’: Amnesty International challenges EU to protect migrants fleeing North Africa (Brussels, 23 February 2011) With the European Union’s Justice & Home Affairs Council preparing to meet on 24 February to discuss the increased flow of people...

25/01/2011 – The European Court of Human Rights vindicates the rights of asylum-seekers in the EU. The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, by a majority, ruled in the case of M.S.S. v. Belgium and Greece that Belgium and Greece had each violated the European Convention for...

21/01/2011 – Amnesty International has urged José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, who will receive a visit on 24 January by President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan, to make human rights central to their discussions.

04/01/2011 – The changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty have radically transformed the EU presidency’s task. It now focuses far more on internal affairs. So one of the main challenges confronting the Hungarian presidency on the human rights front will be something its predecessors were able to...