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Amnesty International contribution to the High-Level Conference of the European Social Charter, 3-4 July 2024

Amnesty International shared a submission to contribute to discussions ahead of the High-Level Conference on the European Social Charter to be held on 3-4 July 2024 in Vilnius, Lithuania. In this submission, Amnesty International outlines its strong support for the European Social Charter and the...
Africa Climate change

Amnesty International calls on the Council of Europe to further the recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment at the 133rd session of the Committee of Ministers

Ahead of the 133rd session of the Committee of Ministers, on 16-17 May 2024, Amnesty International wrote to Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Council of Europe member states and to Permanent Representatives to the Council of Europe, urging them to take action to further the recognition and protection...
Europe and Central Asia Climate change

Call for the adoption of an additional Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights on the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment

Amnesty International and 216 civil society organisations, social movements and Indigenous Peoples Organizations co-signed a letter calling for the swift recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment through an additional Protocol to the European Convention for the...
European Union Member States Armed conflict

Gaza: The EU must urgently continue funding UNRWA, to avoid exacerbating suffering of Palestinians facing serious risk of genocide

The European Commission is currently deliberating whether it will release its planned funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), without which UNRWA could run out of funding leading to closing its operation. In a letter addressed to President of the European Commission Ursula...