23/02/2016 – The European Union (EU) must act now to prevent a wholesale assault on human rights and basic freedoms both within its borders and across the globe, said Amnesty International as it launched its annual assessment on human rights around the world.

15/02/2016 – As the European External Action Service (EEAS) drafts a new European Union (EU) Global Strategy on foreign and security policy (the Global Strategy) , Amnesty International calls on the EU and its member states to ensure that human rights remain at the centre of this new strategy and of their foreign policy now and in future.

15/02/2016 – Thousands of refugees and migrants are still enduring squalid living conditions in Calais and Dunkirk in Northern France, many of them in the hope of reuniting with their family in the UK. To break out of this impasse, the UK and French governments must urgently implement measures to facilitate that those in the camps with family links to the UK are swiftly identified and transferred to the UK.

Italian Navy vessel Virginio Fasan, performing search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean as part of the Mare Nostrum operation, August 2014. ©Amnesty International

Damage after a house search during counter-terrorism raids in the greater Paris region. ©Amnesty International

A diamond mine in the Central African Republic. ©Amnesty International

Refugees arriving by boat to Lesvos, Greece, from Turkey. © Amnesty International

Refugees and migrants in Beli Manastir, Croatia. ©Attila Husejnow

©Grzegorz Żukowski

12/01/2016 – On 1 January 2016, Iverna McGowan was appointed as Head of Amnesty International (AI) European Institutions Office and Director of Advocacy, covering work towards the European Institutions including the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE).