AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PRESS RELEASE   European Court blocks deportation of Omar Othman (aka Abu Qatada)    (Brussels, 17 January 2012) The European Court of Human Rights’ has ruled that the UK must halt its planned deportation to Jordan of Abu Qatada, a Jordanian...

11/01/2012 – Comments on follow up to the Interlaken and Izmir declarations on the future of the European Court of Human Rights

11/01/2012 – Comments on follow-up to the Interlaken and Izmir declarations on the future of the European court of Human rights

  AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT   Turkey still failing to respect right to conscientious objection   (Brussels, 19 December 2011) Amnesty International has charged Turkey with failing to present a report to the latest Committee of Ministers' Human Rights Meeting at the...

01/12/2011 – Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Commission’s consultation on strengthening mutual trust in the application of EU criminal justice in the field of detention. We make some suggestions on how the EU could develop an effective and efficient...

21/11/2011 – This briefing is submitted as a follow up to Amnesty International’s submissions of May and November 2010, as well as the organization’s report Injustice renamed: Discrimination in education of Roma persists in the Czech Republic.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS STATEMENT Court of Human Rights key to protecting human rights across Europe (Brussels, 7 November 2011) As the United Kingdom assumes the six-month chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, the organisation’s main decision-making body, Amnesty...

14/10/2011 – On 12 October, Amnesty International published the report No Evidence of a Crime: Paying the Price for police impunity in Ukraine. Many people in Ukraine still face arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment, and other human rights violations at the hands of the police.

14/06/2011 – In this document we wish to highlight several of our principal concerns with the current draft of the Declaration and Plan of Action.

20/05/2011 – The AIRE Centre and Amnesty International address these comments to the Informal Working Group on the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights (‘CDDH-UE’) on the occasion of this week’s meeting.

15/04/2011 – Imposing a fee on applicants to the European Court of Human Rights may deny victims of human rights violations access to justice, based on their ability to pay.

15/04/2011 – The European Court of Human Rights is at the heart of the system for the protection of human rights in Europe. Its role is to ensure the observance of the obligations of the 47 states which are party to the European Convention on Human Rights for some 800 million people.