The humanitarian assistance offered by the international community has been pitifully low, but Turkey also needs to do more to request and facilitate it.

19/11/2014 – In just over three years, over 3.2 million women, men and children have fled violence, persecution and other intolerable hardships in Syria for the hope of safety and security outside of the country. Neighbouring states have disproportionately shouldered the responsibility to receive Syrian refugees. As of October 2014, Lebanon has 1.13 million registered Syrian refugees, Jordan is hosting 619,000 Syrian persons of concern, while at least 1.6 million refugees from Syria reside in Turkey.

13/11/2014 – Tomorrow marks seven years since the European Court of Human Rights found the Czech Republic to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights with respect to unlawful discrimination of Romani pupils in the Czech education system. Seven years on, these violations of the right to education and discrimination have not been addressed and Roma pupils continue to experience segregated education across the country.

These continuing civilian deaths – a predictable result of such attacks – are inexcusable and those responsible on both sides must be held accountable.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

06/11/2014 – The AIRE Centre (Advice on Individual Rights in Europe), ECRE (European Council on Refugees and Exiles) and Amnesty International welcome the European Court of Human Rights’ judgment in the case of Tarakhel v Switzerland, in which the organizations had intervened jointly with the assistance of lawyers from across Europe in February 2014.

03/11/2014 – While Amnesty International welcomes the continued attention given to hate crime by EU member states, we are concerned that relevant discussions and conferences have not been followed-up with any commitments to take action at EU level. We believe that the working party should serve to promote much needed new steps in EU policy-making on hate crime.

Operation Triton is a clear testimony to EU member states’ continuing preoccupation with protecting borders over people

Sending people straight back to Morocco without any procedural safeguards is a clear breach of European and international human rights law.

Amnesty International

30/10/2014 – Amnesty International welcomed the decision today from the Court of Appeal in London in the case of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar v Straw and Ors in which the Court permitted the Belhaj lawsuit to proceed. Amnesty International had intervened in the case, jointly with the International Commission of Jurists, JUSTICE, and REDRESS.