18/09/2014 – Torture and other ill-treatment by police and military are pervasive, routine and common throughout Nigeria. Released today, Amnesty International’s report “Welcome to hell fire: Torture and other ill-treatment in Nigeria” documents how hundreds of women, men and children in...

Italian Navy vessel Virginio Fasan, performing search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean as part of the Mare Nostrum operation, August 2014. © Amnesty International With hundreds of thousands fleeing war and poverty across the Middle East and Africa, the priority must be to...

16/09/2014 – The 16th of September will mark one year since the Somali Federal Government, the European Union (EU) and other national and international partners met in Brussels to endorse the New Deal Compact for Somalia.

10/09/2014 – On 8 September around a dozen police officers raided the offices of two NGOs, Ökotárs and Demnet, and confiscated files and computer servers. The raids come after a string of recent government statements and actions which have sought to discredit the work of civil society...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty met Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk today. © EPA/MAURIZIO GAMBARINI The Ukrainian authorities must not replicate the lawlessness and abuses that have prevailed in areas previously held by separatists. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL...

04/09/2014 – Torture and ill-treatment in Mexico is out of control with a 600 per cent rise in the number of cases reported to the National Human Rights Commission in the past decade, according to Amnesty International’s report ‘Out of control: Torture and other ill-treatment in...

By Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance was marked on 30 August. Many of us will have given special thought to Sombath Somphone, one of many such victims. Sombath is known across...

01/09/2014 – Amnesty International, FIDH (the International Federation for Human Rights), and its member organization, the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma) today call on the European Union (EU) and its member states to ensure continued international engagement on the human...

29/08/2014 – In its submission, Ammesty International takes the position that the general measures the Polish Government reports having taken do not adequately execute the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment with respect to its obligation to ensure access to lawful abortion.

Italian Navy vessel Virginio Fasan, performing search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean as part of the Mare Nostrum operation, August 2014 © Amnesty International AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH (Brussels, 28 August 2014) Yesterday following a meeting with the Italian Interior...

Finally safe: People rescued at sea on board the Italian Navy frigate, the Virginio Fasan, 14 August 2014. © Amnesty International This is the second blog from a search and rescue operation with the Italian Navy by Amnesty’s Italy campaigner, Matteo de Bellis. We are patrolling the central...

Tibor is one of the resident of the “Numbered Streets” neighbourhood in the city of Miskolc. © David Gaspar/AI Hungary. ‘Numbered Streets’: The Hungarian neighbourhood where everybody could be left homeless By Barbora Černušáková, Amnesty International researcher on Hungary and Áron Demeter,...