Gender based violence
Violence against women
EU-Iran: nuclear dispute must not overshadow human rights
20/02/2006The EU must address Iran’s widespread human rights violations, says Amnesty International, as Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki meets with EU high officials Javier Solana, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Amnesty International just released a report, “New government fails to address dire human rights situation”, describing the failure of the new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his government to address the serious ongoing human rights violations (Version française) (Arabic version).
Mass Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The EU should target aid to help rape survivors
26/10/2004With the release today of a new Amnesty International report on the systematic rape and torture of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the human rights organisation is appealing to EU development ministers meeting in the Netherlands to ensure EU aid to the DRC is used to help rape survivors.
Kosovo: So does that mean I have rights?
06/05/2004Amnesty International calls on the EU to step up its financial and legal support for the fight against trafficking in women, following the release of a new Amnesty report detailing the suffering of women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution in Kosovo
Amnesty calls on the EU to give more support to the fight against trafficking in Women: New report on Kosovo
06/05/2004Amnesty International today calls on the EU to step up its financial and legal support for the fight against trafficking in women, following the release of a new Amnesty report detailing the suffering of women who are trafficked and forced into prostitution in Kosovo
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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 ...