Rather than speculatively accusing each other of abuses, both sides should concentrate on investigating and eliminating execution-style killings by forces they control.

The UK is signed up to international agreements to protect women and girls rights to life and health. This should mean all women and girls in the UK, not just some of us.

20/10/2014 – Amnesty International has received a growing number of allegations of execution-style and other deliberate killings of civilians in eastern Ukraine since April 2014, in addition to those that have been reported in Crimea since its annexation by Russia and in Odessa on 2 May 2014.1 Initially these reports primarily focused on de facto separatist authorities in the territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions under their control. It is only in recent months that allegations of extra-judicial killings by Kyiv-controlled forces have come to Amnesty International’s attention.

20/10/2014 – Amnesty International has continued to receive persistent and credible allegations of routine and pervasive torture and other ill-treatment by security forces Security forces refer to all law enforcement forces under the control of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs, and the National Security Services (SNB) during arrest, transfer, in police custody and in pre-trial detention and by security forces and prison personnel in post-conviction detention facilities in Uzbekistan.

Italy must continue the Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation until there is a better-equipped alternative supported by other European countries – and Triton is certainly not it.

Operation Triton quite simply is not the answer. Until a comprehensive effort is on the table, with sufficient capabilities and resources, this two-thirds net reduction in search and rescue functions will only put lives at risk.

We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances – it is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

10/10/2014 – Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across the world are joining together to call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to repeal the “foreign agents” law and to guarantee that NGOs in Russia are able to work without hindrance, harassment, stigmatisation or reprisals.

Any use of force by the security forces must be strictly in line with international human rights standards, in particular the principles of necessity and proportionality.

As the EU builds its walls higher and higher, migrants and refugees are increasingly taking to the Mediterranean waters in a desperate bid to reach safety and sanctuary in Europe.  Tragically they are increasingly paying the highest cost, losing their lives at sea.