AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Media Advisory 9 January 2017 Press Conference to launch new Amnesty International report: Dangerously disproportionate: the ever-expanding national security state in Europe Amnesty International is launching a major new report on the effect of counter terrorism measures on...

Trading the return of people who reached the EU to seek asylum to one of a country that is still clearly unstable, for vitally needed humanitarian and development aid is sordid and immoral. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU forces Afghanistan to drink ‘poisoned cup’ in exchange for aid 5...

It would be inadmissible that any agreement forged in Brussels makes financial assistance for Afghanistan conditional on the Afghan government’s cooperation to accept the readmission and return of asylum seekers AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 3 October, 2016 Afghanistan: International...

We run from war, we run from pain. So why do people at the border treat us like animals AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Hungary: Appalling treatment of asylum-seekers a deliberate populist ploy ·         Denial of effective access to asylum &...

The continued failure of the EU to seriously address the silencing of dissent by members of the GCC suggests an alarming willingness to sacrifice human rights in favour of military and trade alliances. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 18 July 2016, Brussels EU risks making a mockery of its human...

27/06/2016 – On 7 June 2016, the European Commission published a Communication, calling for the establishment of migration “compacts” between the EU and a range of countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The document is a striking example of precisely what has precipitated...

An Afghan migrant in Istanbul, Turkey. At least 20,000 Afghans are lured in Turkish cities by a promise of good wages that are never paid, and smugglers who tell them it is an easy launching point for a better life in Europe. © Amnesty International The EU-Turkey deal is reckless and illegal....

Egyptians mourn over a body wrapped in shrouds at a mosque in Cairo on August 15, 2013, following a crackdown on the protest camps of supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi the previous day. ©MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP/Getty Images The EU and its members must stop rewarding bad behaviour by...

People take part in a demonstration denouncing Iran’s use of the death penalty on January 28, 2016 in Paris. ©DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images The European delegation’s trip must show Iran that renewed relations between the EU and Tehran hinge on the respect and protection of human rights in...

Refugees and migrants massed onto an inflatable boat reach Mytilene, northern island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on February 17, 2016. ©ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images The ink wasn’t even dry on the EU-Turkey deal when several dozen Afghans were forced back to a country...

Refugees arriving by boat to Lesvos, Greece, from Turkey. ©Amnesty International If the EU is going to hand over such enormous, much-needed sums to Turkey, it has to come with absolute guarantees that it will be spent on support for refugees and that the current human rights violations stop...

A member of the Slovenian army observes migrants walking towards the Austrian border near the village of Sentilj, Slovenia, October 24, 2015. © Leonhard Foeger/REUTERS As governments across the world seem hell bent on demolishing human rights protection, and at a time when the world needs human...