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EU must press for Sri Lankan war crimes accountability
13/05/2013Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Sri Lankan conflict’s conclusion, Amnesty International has urged the European Union to demand publicly an independent, impartial and internationally-led investigation which holds to account those responsible for crimes under international law.
Amnesty International Annual Report 2012
23/05/2012Amnesty International Annual Report 2012: The State of the World’s Human Rights
AI, ECRE and JRS Europe welcome IDC’s global campaign to end immigration detention of children
21/03/2012Today, the International Detention Coalition launched a global campaign to end the immigration detention of children by presenting a new report “Captured Childhood” at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Draft Brighton Declaration: The European Court of Human Rights must not be marginalized
08/03/2012“The European Court of Human Rights must not be given a secondary role in the protection of human rights in Europe” says Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office.
Time for European commitment to banishing violence against women
08/03/2012On International Women's Day, Amnesty International has challenged the European Union to show tangible progress in freeing Europe from violence against women. T
No to human rights trade-off by EU, China and India
10/02/2012Ahead of the EU-India summit and the EU-China summit, Amnesty International has challenged the European Union to demonstrate that it is just as committed to protecting human rights in those countries as it is to pursuing its trade interests.
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Unlock the truth: Time to come clean on secret CIA prison in Poland
12/06/2013 Poland and the European Union must ensure that the country urgently investigates long-standing accusations that it hosted a CIA-run secret prison where suspects were tortured between 2002 and 2005.
Forty-one years of solitude in Louisiana’s Angola prison
03/06/2013 How long do you think you would cope if you were confined to a cupboard-sized room of just six square metres, 23 hours a day? An hour? A day? A week? How about 41 years and counting? Forty-one years ago, three young black ...