Asylum and migration
Spokesperson recently returned from Tunisia where he interviewed migrants and refugees subjected to abuses in Libya Ahead of the meeting of European Home Affairs Ministers, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have today published a 20-point action plan to address the current unsustainable...
6th March 2019
Council of Europe and ECHR
GARABAYEV v. RUSSIAN FEDERATION (No.38411/02)GROUP OF CASES 6 March 2019 – This briefing is submitted in accordance with Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments, in advance of the 1340th (Human Rights) meeting of the...
7th March 2019
Asylum and migration
European governments are complicit in the systematic,unlawful and frequently violent push backs and collective expulsions of thousands of asylum seekers to squalid and unsafe refugee camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Amnesty International in a report published today. Pushed to the edge:...
12th March 2019
Asia and the Pacific
VIOLENCE AND ABUSE AGAINST REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS ALONG THE BALKANS ROUTE 13 March 2019 The northwestern Bosnian towns of Bihać and Velika Kladuša, nestled at the very border with Croatia, have become a temporary refuge for some 5,500 refugees and migrants fleeing conflict, persecution and poverty....
12th March 2019
Asylum and migration
6 March 2019 Dear Minister Dan, I am writing to you to share the proposals put forward by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to address the policy crisis in the Mediterranean, following the closure of Italian ports to rescue vessels. The document Plan of Action: Twenty steps for a fair...
13th March 2019