A group of artisanal miners sift through ores found in a stream close to Congo International Mining Corporation (CIMCO)’s plant in Luisha. © Amnesty International

04/03/2014 – Further to Amnesty International’s October 2013 report on the use of armed drones and ahead of the March EU-US summit, we urge the US administration to ensure independent, impartial investigations into credible reports of potentially unlawful deaths from US drone strikes, including killings that Amnesty International documented in its report, ‘Will I Be Next

21/02/2014 – Amnesty International has welcomed the decision of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General to open an investigation into the alleged rendition to Lithuania of Mustafa al-Hawsawi. The decision comes after the Vilnius Regional Court ruled on 28 January that al-Hawsawi had a right to an investigation of his claims.

04/02/2013 – The EU should take this opportunity to hold Brazil to its commitment, made in the EU-Brazil Joint Action Plan, “to strive for the full protection and promotion in all our countries of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights”.

11/01/2013 – Despite the recognition international and regional institutions, and some national authorities, give HRDs, they are still targeted, even where specific protection mechanisms and programmes exist.

07/11/2012 – In a new Amnesty International report, Colombia: Hidden from justice. Impunity for conflict-related sexual violence, a follow-up report, we highlight the Colombian authorities’ failure to tackle conflict-related sexual violence.

23/07/2012 – Amnesty International welcomed a new European Parliament (EP) report that again urges implicated EU member states to investigate their involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programmes.