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A migrant ship graveyard in Lampedusa, Italy. © Giles Clarke/Getty Images Reportage.

17/07/2015 – Amnesty International is writing to share with you the call made by more than half a million people for European Union (EU) leaders to strengthen search and rescue (SAR) efforts to save lives of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

Uzbekistan Stop Torture action, October 2014. © Amnesty International

09/07/2015 – Amnesty International wishes to urgently draw your attention to the risk of imminent forced evictions in Nairobi, Kenya, which risks taking place under the European Union (EU) funded ‘Missing Link 15 B’ road construction project. Over 1000 families residing in the Deep Sea settlement in Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya, are at risk of human rights violations in the absence of adequate human rights safeguards, and ahead of the evictions that would start from 8 July 2015 onward, as announced by the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA).

With the peak summer crossing months now upon us, European governments can’t falter in their pledges to prevent more tragedies at sea.

08/07/2015 – The measures introduced by the European Union in April 2015 to strengthen search and rescue capacity in the central Mediterranean, following the closure of Italy’s Operation Mare Nostrum at the end of 2014, have resulted in a significant decrease in the death rate of migrants and refugees taking this perilous route into Europe.

Serbia and Macedonia have become a sink for the overflow of refugees and migrants that nobody in the EU seems willing to receive.

03/07/2015 – Europe’s borderlands: Violations against migrants and refugees in Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, finds that an increasing number of vulnerable people are being left stranded in legal limbo across the Balkans. The situation is exacerbated by push-backs or deportations at every border, restricted access to asylum en route and a lack of safe and legal routes into the EU.

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The revelation that the UK government has been spying on Amnesty International highlights the gross inadequacies in the UK’s surveillance legislation.