© iStock If Europe is serious about leading the charge to eradicate torture and abolish the death penalty, it must close these loopholes urgently. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND OMEGA RESEARCH FOUNDATION JOINT PRESS RELEASE 28 May 2015 Companies based in the European Union (EU) are still marketing...

EU Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, adopts the first proposals to improve the management of migration in light of the crisis in the Mediterranean. Credit: EPA By adding resources to patrol the central Mediterranean and expanding the operational area of Triton to...

27/05/2015 – Ahead of the European Union (EU)-Japan Summit on 29 May 2015, Amnesty International calls on you to use this exchange to raise human rights concerns based on common values and ongoing cooperation between the two sides.

27/05/2015 – At the forthcoming summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC) on 10-11 June 2015 in Brussels, Amnesty International calls on leaders from both continents to re-affirm their shared commitment to universal human rights...

26/05/2015 – On the occasion of the forthcoming International Conference on Central African Republic (CAR) on 26 May 2015 in Brussels, Amnesty International calls on you and all participants to ensure that the European Union (EU) and its member states give full political and material support...

26/05/2015 – Amnesty International welcomes the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) judgment in the case of Identoba and Others v. Georgia (no. 73235/12) handed down on 12 May 2015. The Court held that the police’s failure to protect those participating in the International Day Against...

24/05/2015 – Amnesty International is writing to urge you to raise key human rights concerns during the European Union (EU) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial meeting on 24 May. Following President Obama’s meeting with GCC leaders last week, this week’s ministerial meeting...

Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Awards – Berlin, 21 May 2015 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BLOG 21 May 2015 By Steve Crawshaw, Director of the Office of the Secretary General at Amnesty International It sometimes feels that the world divides into two sorts of people. There are those...

Children working in the Twangiza gold fields, South Kivu, eastern DRC, April 2009. Credit: AI/IPIS If European governments follow suit, this law would represent a sea change in what is expected of companies when the minerals in their products come from countries riven by conflict. AMNESTY...

Amnesty International Austria Partnerships and same-sex couples from certain countries face discrimination by the state, which portrays same-sex couples as outsiders or simply ignores these individuals. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 18 May 2015 Amnesty International launches...

A Congolese artisan mine worker shows a small peice of gold found after water processing, in Chudja, Democratric Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN reveals that a lot of gold is still financing armed groups in DRC. Credit: EPA This is a historic opportunity to tackle the conflict minerals trade....

Dr Pietro Bartolo (2nd from right) meets with an Amnesty International delegation at Lampedusa hospital, 24 April 2015. © Amnesty International Lampedusa’s medic to the migrants By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International Dr Pietro Bartolo has seen more suffering and death in...