The twin financial and refugee crises have created a perfect storm on the Aegean islands that only concerted action by both the Greek authorities and European leaders can quell.
Visit of an Amnesty International delegation to an informal settlement with refugees from Syria in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. © ALI ALSHEIKH KHEDR / Amnesty International
18/06/2015 – Amnesty International calls on you to lead European Union (EU) efforts to speak out about the grave human rights violations taking place in Nigeria today and to engage the Nigerian authorities to address them.
With homophobic violence a clear and present danger for activists in post-Soviet states, this week’s EuroPride will hopefully send a message that progress is possible and deep-seated discrimination can be uprooted and replaced with tolerance.
Action against the flogging of Raif Badawi, Berlin. Amnesty International / Photo: Henning Schacht
• Worst refugee crisis since World War II. • One million refugees desperately in need of resettlement. • Four million Syrian refugees struggling to survive in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. • More than three million refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, and only a small fraction offered resettlement since 2013. • 3,500 people drowned while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2014 — 1,865 so far in 2015. • 300 people died in the Andaman Sea in the first three months of 2015 due to starvation, dehydration and abuse by boat crews.
15/06/2015 – The Global Refugee Crisis: A conspiracy of neglect explores the startling suffering of millions of refugees, from Lebanon to Kenya, the Andaman Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and calls for a radical change in the way the world deals with refugees.
11/06/2015 – The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), Amnesty International and the Open Society Foundation Bratislava (OSF) call on the Slovak government to refute the use of the “incest-argument” to justify segregated education for Romani children in Slovakia.
10/06/2015 – Behind the image trumpeted by the government of a forward-looking, modern nation is a state where criticism of the authorities is routinely and increasingly met with repression. Journalists, political activists and human rights defenders who dare to challenge the government face trumped up charges, unfair trials and lengthy prison sentences.