PRESS CONFERENCE – “Iraqi Refugee Crisis: Time For EU to Show Solidarity” Ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 19-20 April and on the occasion of a major UNHCR conference on Iraq on 17-18 April in Geneva, Amnesty International and the European Council on Refugees and...

EU-Central Asia: “send the right signals” (Brussels, 27 March 2007) The German Presidency of the EU should not shy away from asking questions related to human rights abuse during the EU-Central Asia talks, says Amnesty International on the eve of the meetings taking place in Kazakhstan....

23/02/2007 – On 26 February 1992, over 18,000 persons were illegally removed from the Slovenian registry of permanent residents. Many of them (latest estimates put the number at around 5,000) remain “erased”. Coming close to the 15th anniversary of that fateful date, Amnesty International is...

(Brussels, 15 January) Unless Morocco offers guarantees that migration management operations can be conducted without abuse of migrants and refugees, the EU should reconsider giving further financial aid to this country, said Amnesty international in a letter to EU Ministers of Justice and Home...

(Brussels, 9 January) Amnesty International strongly urges the European Commission to review its cooperation with Morocco to combat irregular migration after a series of violent raids where hundreds of people – including women, minors, refugees and asylum seekers – were rounded up and...

Amnesty International today releases a report criticising Spain’s failure, one year on, to conclude investigations on the deaths of 13 migrants and hundreds wounded in Ceuta and Melilla in September/October 2005. (Available below) The new report, based on victim’s testimonies and...

26/10/2006 – Amnistía Internacional ha recibido y documentado informes de graves violaciones de derechos humanos contra migrantes y solicitantes de asilo que intentan cruzar la frontera entre Marruecos y España en los enclaves españoles de Ceuta y Melilla.

17/10/2006 – Amnesty International welcomes the fact that the EU immigration policy will be part of the agenda of the informal meeting of EU Heads of State and Government in Lahti (20 October 2006). The state of the EU’s immigration policy requires clear political leadership and vision for...

Amnesty International is concerned about the EU’s moves to give financial support to countries such as Libya to tackle irregular migration, without seeking any type of guarantees that the rights of asylum seekers and migrants will be upheld in the process. In a letter to the Finnish Presidency...

As EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers prepare to meet once again in Tampere, the site of the landmark summit that in 1999 set the political direction for developing the EU as an “Area of Freedom, Security and Justice”, Amnesty International urges the EU to make the Hague Programme...

A long term, human rights-based policy is urgently needed to resolve the humanitarian crisis of irregular migration to Europe, says Amnesty International ahead of the Rabat Conference on Migration and Development. In a press conference today in Madrid, the human rights organisation presented a set...

07/07/2006 – Amnesty International Statement at the occasion of the Ministerial Euro-African Conference on Migration and Development – Rabat, 10-11 July 2006