Next week’s pledging conference must be used to turn the tide around. It is time for world governments to take the courageous steps needed to share the responsibility for this crisis and help avert further suffering.
05/12/2014 – The Hungarian police must withdraw an offensive ‘awareness raising’ video, which explicitly puts the blame for sexual violence and responsibility for its prevention on women and girls, Amnesty International said in a letter sent to the country’s Minister of Interior.
04/12/2014 – Amnesty International urges the European Union (EU) and its member states to engage with the Philippines government over the widespread use of torture or otherwise ill-treatment by its police. Released today, Amnesty International’s report, Above the law: Police torture in the Philippines, reveals that, despite the passage of the Anti-Torture Act criminalising torture in the Philippines in November 2009, torture is still rife and appears to be routine during interrogations in some police stations.
04/12/2014 – In this report, launched as part of its global campaign Stop Torture, Amnesty International investigates the phenomenon of torture and other ill-treatment in the Philippines and the process of obtaining justice and accountability for survivors, both from a legal and practical perspective.
04/12/2014 – This briefing presents an overview of the international response to the Syrian refugee crisis – in particular the response to calls by UNHCR for resettlement of vulnerable refugees – and highlights some of the most serious human rights issues facing refugees in the main host countries.
The international community’s failure to respond to the world’s worst displacement crisis since World War II is shameful.
27/11/2014 – Write for Rights was first launched in 2001 as a 24-hour letter writing marathon in Poland. By 2013 it had grown into a global campaign with hundreds of thousands of people from 140 countries taking part.
Careful, detailed analysis is needed – not fast-tracking and grandstanding.
26/11/2014 – On 20 – 21 November 2014, almost 20 years since its last review, Romania again appeared in front of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). NGOs present during the review sessions are deeply concerned over discriminatory statements by the Romanian representatives and the government’s failure to engage in a constructive dialogue with the UN Committee as to the extent of which civil society organizations consider that Romania has failed to meet its international obligations prescribed by the Covenant.
The root causes of gender-based violence and restrictions of women and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights are the same – systematic gender discrimination rooted in patriarchal structures that control women and girls’ choices and freedoms.
A request to the European Court must be lodged within the next two weeks. The clock is ticking.
24/11/2014 – Amnesty International is deeply concerned over reports of excessive use of force and misuse of less-lethal weapons against protesters, ill-treatment of bystanders and attacks against photojournalists and journalists by riot police during and after demonstrations in Athens on 13 and 17 November 2014.