It is vital that the authorities investigate and prosecute those responsible for the violence and ensure that they do more to protect members of the LGBTI community from attack in the future.

28/05/2015 – Grasping the nettle: Ending Europe’s trade in execution and torture technology details these gaps and spells out how EU institutions and member states can and must close them. It is being launched as the European Parliament opens fresh debate on 28 May over proposed amendments to the EU’s “Torture Trade Regulation” in force since 2006.

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By adding resources to patrol the central Mediterranean and expanding the operational area of Triton to the level of the defunct Operation Mare Nostrum, the European Union has finally recognised the colossal mistake in closing Italy’s operation without replacing it with an equivalent mission.

27/05/2015 – At the forthcoming summit between the European Union (EU) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC) on 10-11 June 2015 in Brussels, Amnesty International calls on leaders from both continents to re-affirm their shared commitment to universal human rights and to put them into practice at home and in all future collaborations.

26/05/2015 – On the occasion of the forthcoming International Conference on Central African Republic (CAR) on 26 May 2015 in Brussels, Amnesty International calls on you and all participants to ensure that the European Union (EU) and its member states give full political and material support to human rights and efforts toward justice, through the EU Trust Fund Bêkou and their wider engagement there.

26/05/2015 – Amnesty International welcomes the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) judgment in the case of Identoba and Others v. Georgia (no. 73235/12) handed down on 12 May 2015. The Court held that the police’s failure to protect those participating in the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) march in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2012 violated the European Convention on Human Rights.

24/05/2015 – Amnesty International is writing to urge you to raise key human rights concerns during the European Union (EU) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial meeting on 24 May. Following President Obama’s meeting with GCC leaders last week, this week’s ministerial meeting offers you a unique opportunity to advocate for an end to repression and human rights violations within each GCC country.

Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Awards – Berlin, 21 May 2015

If European governments follow suit, this law would represent a sea change in what is expected of companies when the minerals in their products come from countries riven by conflict.