Ahead of a week of action across Europe, Amnesty International calls on European governments to stop forcibly sending people to deadly conditions in Afghanistan.

14/09/2018 – Since October 2016, the Myanmar security forces have driven more than 810,000 Rohingya women, men and children into Bangladesh as a result of successive operations in northern Rakhine State marked by crimes under international law. Security forces killed thousands of Rohingya women, men, and children, raped hundreds of Rohingya women and girls and burned several hundred villages to the ground. Human rights violations, including systematic discrimination and segregation, are ongoing against the Rohingya who remain in Rakhine State, and have forced more than 13,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh since the beginning of 2018.

Immediately after President Juncker’s State of the Union address on 12 September, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will face an historic choice: to confront Hungary’s derailment from the path of respect for fundamental rights and freedoms on which EU member states have chosen to walk together, or to allow the EU to move away from this path with member states openly violating EU founding principles.

On 12 September, members of the European Parliament will be facing an historic choice: to confront Hungary’s derailment from the path of respect for fundamental rights and freedoms or to allow the EU to move further from this path, with member states openly violating the EU’s founding principles without consequences.

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states. An important human rights actor, both within Europe and globally, the EU is built on shared goals and values, laid out in the Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.