13/04/2016 – Speech by Head of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office Iverna McGowan in acceptance of Amnesty International being awarded the Sinti and Roma European Civil Rights Prize 2016.

People detained on Lesvos and Chios have virtually no access to legal aid, limited access to services and support, and hardly any information about their current status or possible fate. The fear and desperation are palpable. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE London – 7 April 2016 Thousands...

By Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty International’s researcher on Italy  A toddler, stumbling barefoot through thick mud is luckily not a common sight in modern-day Europe. But during a recent visit to a segregated camp built specifically to house Roma on the outskirts of Naples, this is exactly what...

One of the ferry terminals housing refugees at the main Athens port, Piraeus. ©Amnesty International/Olga Stefatou Persevering with a system that has stranded 50,000 refugees in Greece in dire conditions is nothing short of madness Amnesty International Newsflash Brussels – 6 April 2016 Proposed...

05/04/2016 – The International Commission of Jurists, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles and Amnesty International would like to present their joint briefing on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Border and Coast Guard and...

©Amnesty International / Olga Stefatou It is a deal that can only be implemented with the hardest of hearts and a blithe disregard for international law. Large-scale forced returns of refugees from Turkey to war-ravaged Syria expose the fatal flaws in a refugee deal signed between Turkey and the...

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...

Today’s attacks in Brussels show an utter contempt for human life, Amnesty International said as it condemned them in the strongest possible terms. “To deliberately target civilian lives is, and always will be, inexcusable. Those responsible for these attacks must be brought to justice. All our...

Copyright: Amnesty International “Promises to respect international and European law appear suspiciously like sugar-coating the cyanide pill that refugee protection in Europe has just been forced to swallow.” AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH Brussels – 18 March 2016 Spokespeople available in...

© Amnesty International/Olga Stefatou “In reality, the essence of the deal has not changed. These fig-leaf procedures won’t hide Europe’s guilty conscience if large scale returns of refugees start happening now.” AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH Brussels – 16 March 2016...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY SAVE THE DATE: 17 MARCH 2016 PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ZONE (NEXT TO THE EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE), RUE DE LA LOI, BRUSSELS At 10:00am on 17 March, Amnesty International is organising a protest demanding the European Council...

15/03/2016 – Amnesty International expresses deep concern for the situation of human rights defenders working on land, territory and environmental issues in Honduras, and condemns the murder Berta Cáceres.