Responding to the Slovak parliament’s failure to adopt an amendment to the School Act which would take steps to address discrimination against Roma children, Rado Sloboda, Director of Amnesty International Slovakia, said: “The Slovak parliament missed a crucial chance today to adopt measures that...

Ahead of a visit of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) to Serbia from 3 to 7 April 2023, Amnesty International made a submission to the Council of Europe’s monitoring body. Amnesty International raised concerns on the implementation of the new Law on Social Cards and...

Following the brutal killing of two  people outside an LGBTI bar in Bratislava on 12 October, numerous organizations are organizing a demonstration tomorrow to express solidarity with Slovakia’s LGBTI community. Amnesty International will be participating in the solidarity march, and is also...

Muslim communities in Europe are estimated to account for approximately 25.8 million people or roughly 4.9% of the region’s total population. Amnesty International has long been concerned about racial and religious discrimination and its specific impact on Muslim people’s human rights across...

Ahead of tomorrow’s planned Euro Pride walk in Belgrade which has been banned by Serbian authorities, Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s Director at the European Institutions Office said: “The decision by Serbian authorities to ban Euro Pride for purported security reasons is shameful....

Letter ahead of the EU General Affairs Council’s meeting on 23 May 2022, on the situation of the rule of law and other Article 2 TEU values in Hungary. The hearing takes place at a time when the importance of the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights across Europe is in ever sharper focus....

Russia: European Court of Human Rights rules ban on sex-same unions violates human rights  Reacting to the news that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Russia is in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights by not providing same-sex unions with the ability to gain...

Police enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across Europe have disproportionately targeted ethnic minority and marginalized groups with violence, discriminatory identity checks, forced quarantines and fines, Amnesty International said in a new report. Policing the pandemic covers 12 European countries and...

Amnesty International letter sharing concerns about the treatment of Roma communities in Bulgaria and Slovakia during the COVID-19 pandemic and requesting the Council of Europe and European Commission’s support in taking these issues up with the national authorities. Under extraordinary...

People’s rights are being violated by governments in Europe and Central Asia, who are cracking down on protests and seeking to erode the independence of the judiciary to avoid accountability, Amnesty International said today as it published its annual review of human rights in the region. The...

Amnesty International calls on the European Commission to reconsider closing the infringement procedure case against Italy for discrimination against Roma in housing Amnesty International; along with several key non-governmental organisations, intergovernmental organisations and monitoring bodies;...

D.H. and others V. the Czech Republic (Application No. 57325/00) The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its landmark judgment in the case of D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic (“D.H.”) on November 13, 2007. More than a decade since the judgment and three years after the new legislation...