As of 15 September, irregular entry to Hungary through the border fence becomes a criminal offence punishable with deportation or prison sentence up to 3 years. ©Amnesty International / Mussa Idris Mussa For refugees fleeing from terrifying conflict zones to be met by such an intimidating show...

As of 15 September, irregular entry to Hungary through the border fence becomes a criminal offence punishable with deportation or prison sentence up to 3 years. ©Amnesty International / Mussa Idris Mussa As the refugee crisis mounts with every passing day, the EU’s reaction has been...

Activists in the Netherlands say it with a doormat! Action in support of refugee resettlement in front of Parliament in The Hague. © Amnesty International Netherlands Ministers must abandon once and for all the Fortress Europe approach. Desperate people will keep coming and a coordinated...

Picture: On 4th September, the Hungarian police continued to block a train with hundreds of refugees at the town of Bicske. Upon arrival from Budapest number of refugees refused to disembark the train as they didn’t want to be placed into a (overcrowded) camp after having spend days at the...

About 2000 refugees coming daily to Hugary from Serbia are held for hours at a “collection point” in Roszke with no infrastructure and food and water being provided by volunteers – September 2015. Credit : Amnesty International. The proposals published by the Commission today...

The response to the refugee crisis in Europe has been piecemeal and incoherent at a time when the need for clear-sighted leadership and radical reform of Europe’s collapsing asylum system has never been greater AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 9 September 2015 European leaders’...

07/09/2015 – On the occasion of your first State of the European Union (EU) address to the European Parliament on 9 September, and as preparations continue for the Commission Work Programme 2016, Amnesty International urges you to include a strong human rights dimension, taking the...

Refugee kid gets fruit distributed by activists, Kos, Greece – September 2015 © Amnesty International (Photographer: Eliza Goroya) “Last night’s violent attack once again throws into sharp relief the danger to them and activists who help them. Action must be taken now at all...

By Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Director of Amnesty International Greece The view was staggering upon my arrival in the village of Idomeni, near Greece’s border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia). Up to 4,000 refugees, many of them from Syria including many families with children,...

In the glaring absence of sufficient safe and legal routes to Europe, people are left with little choice but to embark on irregular journeys fraught with risks either in the Mediterranean or now increasingly the western Balkans. It’s time to show the red card to Europe’s response to the...

The world is seeing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. What Europe’s borders need is not fences but safe entry points for refugees, and facilities to receive them with dignity. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE (Brussels 24 August 2015) Weak coordination and severe...

The Frontex report is yet more confirmation, as if any were needed, that Europe’s focus on keeping people out rather than managing an ever-growing global refugee crisis is failing AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 19 August 2015 EU: New Frontex report underscores urgent need for safe and...