SOS EUROPE: European Parliament must stand up for migrants

08/04/2013 – South African law enforcement officials are increasingly violating the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture in the context of the “war against crime” and in the policing of protests over socio-economic conditions.

21/03/2013 – Ahead of the EU-Japan Summit, and following Japan’s rejection of key recommendations made in the 14th session of the Universal Periodic Review related to the death penalty, the daiyo kangoku substitute detention system, and justice for survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system, Amnesty International calls on the EU to press Japan to address its serious human rights failings. We particularly urge you to raise the following concerns.

21/03/2013 – In a letter sent to Viktor Orbán Prime Minister of Hungary on the 8th of March, Amnesty International outlined its concerns regarding the proposed Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary (the Constitution).

26/02/2013 – This briefing is submitted in accordance with Rule 9(2) of the Rules of the Committee of Ministers for the supervision of the execution of judgments and with the terms of friendly settlements adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 May 2006.

21/02/2013 – Violence in the aftermath of the 2007 Kenyan elections, which claimed 1,300 lives, shows how vital it is for the Kenyan police to be properly prepared ahead of the polls in March.

08/02/2013 – Amnesty International has released a new report, Cameroon: Make human rights a reality, which documents human rights violations by the Cameroonian authorities that are allowed to take place with impunity.

04/02/2013 – The EU should take this opportunity to hold Brazil to its commitment, made in the EU-Brazil Joint Action Plan, “to strive for the full protection and promotion in all our countries of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights”.