AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

The reality is that hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have found themselves trapped in Libya, and exposed to horrific abuses, as a result of the EU’s intensive cooperation with Libyan authorities

By funding, equipping and instructing Libyan authorities responsible for serious human rights violations against refugees and migrants, EU countries, and Italy in particular, have become complicit in their abuse.

The EU-Turkey Deal is condemning refugees and migrants to a second winter in squalor on the Greek islands

Brutal implements of torture like spiked batons and weighted leg irons were supposed to have been banned for good in the EU. So why are they for sale in Paris today

22/11/2017 – We, undersigned human rights and humanitarian nongovernmental organisations, are writing to express our deep concern at the deteriorating, and increasingly dangerous, conditions for thousands of women, men and children seeking asylum and trapped on the Aegean islands as winter sets in.

The Myanmar authorities are keeping Rohingya women, men and children segregated and cowed in a dehumanising system of apartheid.

21/11/2017 – As European Union (EU) and African Union (AU) leaders meet for the 5th EU-AU Summit on 29-30 November 2017 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Amnesty International calls on AU and EU leaders to place human rights at the centre of their discussions. The Summit is proclaimed to be a critical opportunity for leaders of the two continents to respond to the “evolving context and reshape and deepen the Africa-EU partnership.” Several key issues are expected to be on the agenda including security, conflict and peace-building, governance and democracy as well as migration and youth.

As Federica Mogherini visits the epicentre of the Rohingya refugee emergency, she must commit the EU to provide Bangladesh with whatever support it can to continue to host the refugees in humane, sustainable and dignified conditions

09/11/2017 – I am writing to share with you our recommendations for the next trio of presidencies for the Council of the European Union (EU) and to introduce you to our new global campaign, Brave: Human rights defenders under threat – a shrinking space of civil society, a campaign to take global action against the worrying assault against human rights defenders (HRDs) and the rights that they seek to protect and defend.

“Taibeh Abbasi is a popular, well-integrated teenager who dreams of becoming a doctor. But her life could be about to change forever. Like thousands of other Afghans who have found safe homes in European countries, she now faces being uprooted and sent to a war zone,”

The release of the Istanbul 10 late last night restored some faith in Turkey’s justice system. Today, that faith has been washed away.