24/01/2014 – Amnesty International is writing to ask you to take concrete action in response to ruling 168-13 adopted by the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic on 23 September 2013.This decision deprives Dominican nationality from all persons of foreign descent born on Dominican...

Protesters in Ukraine clashed with police over new laws stifling freedom of expression© AFP/Getty Images There must be no impunity for law enforcement officers who resort to abusive use of force.  We have repeatedly called on the Ukrainian authorities to bring perpetrators to justice, but...

23/01/2014 – Amnesty International expresses its profound concerns over the loss of life of migrants and refugees including several small children near the island of Farmakonisi on 20 January 2014. In the early hours of Monday, 20 January 2014, a fishing boat carrying 28 migrants and refugees...

© Amnesty International Switzerland “The injustice that is Guantanamo has been allowed to fester for twelve years now – twelve years too many. It is wholly unacceptable that the human rights violations by the US against those detained have gone unchecked for so long” AMNESTY...

Women demonstrate to demand action on war missing Past human rights violations and abuses must urgently be resolved on both sides to ensure the “normalisation” of the relationship between Kosovo and Serbia. This would also build on the political agreement reached between the two countries in April...

22/01/2014 – Following the start of negotiations between Serbia and the European Commission on 21 January 2014 on European Union (EU) membership, Amnesty International is calling for your support of a human rights agreement between Serbia and Kosovo.

The Minister of Justice and Greek representatives met Amnesty International in Brussels for a constructive meeting, and committed to work with civil society to promote human rights, specifically to combat violence against women and discrimination. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Will the Greek...

16/01/2014 – Ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council on Monday 20 January, Amnesty International calls on you to ensure that human rights remain at the centre of European Union (EU) external policy and action in all countries on the agenda, including Central African Republic (CAR), Syria, Egypt,...

The three British men say they were tortured in prison in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and 2001.© FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP/Getty Images AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE European Court blocks last hope for British Saudi torture victims (Brussels, 15 January 2014) The European Court of Human Rights...

Madina Ablyazov, the daughter of Kazakh opposition figure Mukhtar Ablyazov, in a French court to fight her father’s extradition. © BORIS HORVAT/AFP/Getty Images Not only do we have fears that Ablyazov would not get a fair trial in Russia or Ukraine, there is the real danger that he will...

The position taken by the UNHCR underlines the shameful treatment of asylum seekers in Bulgaria. © NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images Asylum seekers in Bulgaria, including many fleeing from war-torn Syria, are being held in appalling conditions, sometimes for months on end. They lack access to...

Libyan Abdel Hakim Belhaj has sued UK former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, for his government’s role in renditions to Libya.© MAHMUD TURKIA/AFP/Getty Images Today’s announcement is yet another effort by the UK to shirk its responsibility to get at the full truth AMNESTY...