Current regulations ban countries in the European Union from exporting goods such as restrain chairs.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Today’s historic rulings finally unlock the truth about a dark period of Poland’s recent history and mark a milestone against impunity. Poland knowingly became part of the USA’s illegal network of black sites that was used to secretly detain and torture individuals rounded up in counter-terrorism operations

This makes a mockery of the law. How are courts ever to investigate allegations of rendition if governments are simply going to play the ‘act of state’ card

European member states are building their walls higher and higher. This is at the expense of the rights and lives of refugees and migrants.

Push-backs across the border

With this deeply disappointing and unjust ruling, the European Court of Human Rights is condoning Finland’s repressive laws affecting transgender people and reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes.

17/07/2014 – One of our primary hopes for the future is that you will be an EU champion for human rights through leading by example and ensuring that all Commissioners use their political power and all available instruments to hold EU member states to account when failing to uphold EU legislation to the detriment of the enjoyment of human rights within the EU.

17/07/2014 – The United States (US) government’s callous and dehumanising practice of holding prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement in the country’s only federal super-maximum security (supermax) prison amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is in violation of international law.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT

14/07/2014 – Ending impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations and abuses constitutes one of the main challenges facing the Transitional Authorities of the Central African Republic (CAR) as well as members of the international community as a whole.

For the first time, UK intelligence agencies will have to answer for their activities and defend their indefensible policy for mass surveillance