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

03/03/2016 – NGOs including Amnesty International have called on the European Union and its member states to honour their human rights obligations when creating and implementing counter-terrorism measures, and ensure these measures are compatible with the rule of law.

26/02/2016 – Ahead of HRVP Federica Mogherini’s visit to Azerbaijan, Amnesty International calls on her to address the deteriorating human rights record in the country and the wrongful imprisonment of government critics.

A member of the Slovenian army observes migrants walking towards the Austrian border near the village of Sentilj, Slovenia, October 24, 2015. © Leonhard Foeger/REUTERS

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.

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

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

Action against the flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi. ©Henning Schacht/Amnesty International

By engaging Turkey as a gatekeeper for Europe in the refugee crisis, the EU is in danger of ignoring and now encouraging serious human rights violations