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...

19/12/2013 – An Amnesty International delegation has just returned from a two-week mission to Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) and documented serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross violations of human rights following the 5 December attack in Bangui and its...

View of a detention centre in the area of Pagani, Mytilini island © Amnesty International If accurate, the deeply shocking statements attributed today to the Greek Chief of Police would expose a willful disregard for the rights and welfare of refugees and migrants seeking shelter and...

Amnesty International’s visual display outside the EU summit on 24 and 25 October The European Union urgently needs to change its mindset and approach to migration control. No matter how high member states try to build their walls, no matter how often they shift responsibility to neighbouring...

A refugee camp located in former military barracks in the town of Harmanli, Bulgaria© NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images The European Union member states are failing to play their fair part in providing a safe haven to the refugees who have lost all but their lives. The number of those...

12/12/2013 – In the space of 12 months, 1.8 million people fled the armed conflict in Syria. By September 2013 the terrible milestone of two million refugees had been reached as men, women and children continued to pour out of the country.

10/12/2013 – Today, Amnesty International formally requested access to information from the European Commission on the process and state of play of the so called pre-infringement procedures against Italy, following its discriminatory treatment of Roma and the specific failure of the national...

06/12/2013 – For nearly two years now, Mali has been facing the most serious crisis in its recent history. In rapid succession, there has been an armed insurrection that has undermined the integrity of its territory, and a military coup which ended nearly two decades of institutional...

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the violence gripping Central African Republic. © MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE/AFP/Getty Images The consequences of this life-and-death decision will affect an entire country. If the Security Council does not act now to stem the horrific cycle of...

29/11/2013 – An informal settlement in Saint Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis), reported by media as one of the largest Roma camps in France with an estimated 800 people living in it at one point, was forcibly evicted on the morning of 27 November 2013. Media reports estimated that of the...

27/11/2013 – Today, the European Union is challenged to respond to the grave human rights crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR). Already ongoing for several decades, this humanitarian and human rights crisis has further degenerated since the Seleka offensive in December 2012.

20/11/2013 – In December 2013, the Czech Republic will be reviewed by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe with regard to its progress towards the execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgment in the case of D.H. and Others. In 2007, the European Court held the...