It’s vital that surveillance measures don’t ride roughshod over the rights of the very people they’re supposed to protect.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

06/03/2015 – In their preliminary public observations to the members of the Committee on Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Related Issues (COD-CTE) of the Council of Europe on the terms of reference to draft an Additional Protocol supplementing the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of Terrorism, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists set out general principles and make short comments on the specific new criminal offences that shall be introduced by this international treaty.

Without a collective and concerted rescue mission, the European Agenda on Migration remains dangerously incomplete.

03/03/2015 – The report highlights the mounting persecution of government critics, detained under false charges, beaten and threatened and deprived of urgent medical care and lawyers.

03/03/2015 – In their joint statement, Amnesty International together with its NGO partners detail their key positions to assist the ongoing negotiations on the draft Brussels Declaration on the “Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights, our shared responsibility” and highlight some areas for improvement of the text.

In the current climate of crackdown on freedoms of expression, assembly and association, this is a cold-blooded murder of one of those free voices whom the authorities have so actively sought to silence.

• Amnesty International releases Annual Report along with forecast of human rights trends for the coming year • Says governments must ‘stop pretending the protection of civilians is beyond their power’ • Forecasts more civilians at risk of abuses by armed groups, continued attacks on freedom of expression, and a worsening humanitarian and refugee crisis; unless there is a fundamental change to the global response to conflict • Calls for global action including renouncement of veto rights by five permanent members of UN Security Council in situations of mass atrocities

We agree that a European solution is urgently needed. But extending operation Triton without increasing its assets and operational area changes nothing.

We agree that a European solution is urgently needed. But extending operation Triton without increasing its assets and operational area changes nothing.

The failure to address the widespread abuses during the EuroMaydan protests risks entrenching a long-standing culture of impunity for police officers.

We urge all sides in the conflict to treat any detainees humanely according to the Geneva Conventions.