There is a climate of impunity in CAR, where members of armed groups and militias alleged to have committed appalling human rights abuses and crimes under international law, move freely throughout the country and continue to fuel violence Version française ci-dessous AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 14 November 2016 Greece: Obama must shine spotlight on Europe’s abysmal failure to protect refugees   ·         Spokespeople available in Athens US President Barack Obama should use his visit to Greece, which...

14/11/2016 – I write in advance of the 17 November donors’ Conference on the Central African Republic (CAR) in Brussels, to urge you to lead efforts of the European Union (EU) and its member states to put accountability, the consolidation of the rule of law and the reconstruction of the penal...

…traumatized people, arriving in Italy after harrowing journeys, are being subjected to flawed assessments and in some instances appalling abuse at the hands of the police, as well as unlawful expulsions AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed until: 00:01 GMT, 3 November 2016 Italy:...

03/11/2016 – Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, fleeing conflict, human right violations and poverty, have crossed the Mediterranean in the past three years in search of safe haven or a better life. In the absence of safe and legal routes into Europe, they have travelled...

SUGGESTED EU RULES ON CONFLICT MINERAL TRADE RISK EXCLUSION OF 90% OF IMPORTERS Could financing conflict up to a point be excused with control and preventive measures being too ‘cumbersome’ And if so where would the threshold for this amount lie At 100 Euros, 1000 or 3.4 million Euros This is the...

These refugees have been betrayed by a system which not only failed to offer them the protection to which they were entitled, but failed to consider their protection needs at all AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 28 October 2016 Greece: Evidence points to illegal forced returns of Syrian refugees...

Not content with undermining the rule of law, the new Polish government has spent its first year in power eroding human rights protections in key areas AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Poland: failure to meet EU deadline to improve human rights requires robust response • Spokespeople available...

26/10/2016 – The Afghanistan donor conference that took place on October 4 and 5 2016 brought together representatives from 75 countries and 26 international organizations. €13.6 billion was pledged – amongst other priorities – to “end violence and a political process towards lasting peace...

If these refugees were sent to Turkey without due consideration of their asylum claim, this is undoubtedly a case of refoulement AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY Greece: Reported illegal returns of Syrian refugees to Turkey ‘dangerous’ 21 October 2016 Spokespeople available for interview...

Hungary’s Mistreatment of Refugees Today Ignores History 60 years ago, other countries welcomed refugees fleeing Hungary Todor Gardos is Amnesty International’s Hungary researcher Sixty years on and half a world away, Judy Kepecz-Hays still remembers the fear. “We were walking through the...

European Council: Rushing asylum appeals process would not be fair or legal 19 October 2016 • Spokespeople available on the ground in Greece Draft European Council conclusions calling for asylum appeals in Greece to be sped up in order to increase returns from the Greek islands to Turkey under the...