07/09/2012 – The sinking of a boat carrying migrants towards the southern Italian island of Lampedusa underscores why European Union governments need to do more to rescue and assist destitute people who arrive on its shores, Amnesty International said.

31/07/2012 – When EIB president Mr. Werner Hoyer met with Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Mr. Salil Shetty, on Monday 23 July they discussed concerns related to the failure of the Serbian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (MLSP) and relevant municipalities in southern Serbia to deliver on measures required by the EIB to overcome human rights violations resulting from the Gazela Bridge Rehabilitation Project.

23/07/2012 – Amnesty International welcomed a new European Parliament (EP) report that again urges implicated EU member states to investigate their involvement in the CIA’s rendition and secret detention programmes.

10/07/2012 – Pakistan’s human rights situation remains poor, and security and intelligence officials are often complicit in violations.

05/07/2012 – Since the end of the conflict that ended the rule of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, Libya has been characterised by increasing lawlessness, fuelled by an inability or unwillingness on the part of the transitional authorities to rein in the hundreds of militias formed during and after the 2011 conflict. Murders, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and torture are increasing and often used for purposes of revenge.