Millions of euros were allocated for settlements and yet, three years on, the vast majority of Roma families thrown out of their houses, are still awaiting a place to call home.
Prisoners have been freed, charges dropped, compensation won: Here are just some of the good human rights news Amnesty supporters worldwide have helped bring about already in 2015. Together, we can move mountains!
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31/03/2015 – This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2014. As in previous years, information is collected from a variety of sources, including: official figures; information from individuals sentenced to death and their families and representatives; reporting by other civil society organisations; and media reports.
30/03/2015 – Statement by Iverna McGowan, acting Director of Amnesty International European Institutions Office during the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Hearing: ‘The situation of fundamental rights in the European Union’, on 30 March 2015
27/03/2015 – As NGOs present at the Brussels conference on the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights, we welcome the draft Declaration’s deadline of June 2016 to improve the execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, but regret that it does not set out the specific measures that states and the Committee of Ministers should take to improve implementation.
Today is a dark day for Spain with these reforms representing a multi-pronged attack on a raft of rights.
Love does not discriminate, and neither should our laws.
If the Azerbaijani regime is really serious about human rights, it will release all the prisoners of conscience immediately and unconditionally.
19/03/2015 – The German Constitutional Court ruling striking down a blanket prohibition for teachers to wear religious and cultural symbols or dress in North-Rhine Westphalia, the most populous German state, is an important step towards combating discrimination based on religion or belief.