Press Releases
Africa
Asylum and migration
Families of missing people add voices to a new international campaign for justice The abject failure of Spanish and Moroccan authorities to provide truth and ensure justice for at least 37 sub-Saharan African people killed and 77 others still missing following the deadly events that took place on...
13th December 2022
Press Releases
Race and faith based discrimination
Amid rising Islamophobia in Europe, amplified by politicians using anti-Muslim rhetoric, parliamentarians from 46 countries will vote in a plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on a resolution that accuses authorities in several European states of normalizing...
10th October 2022
Statements And Reports
Discrimination
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...
21st September 2022
Letters
Europe and Central Asia
Discrimination
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...
18th May 2020
Press Releases
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum and migration
• Spokesperson available on the ground Ahead of tomorrow’s early release of Ahmed H, a Syrian man who was unfairly jailed for “complicity in an act of terror” during clashes with police at the Serbia-Hungary border in September 2015, Eda Seyhan, Amnesty International’s Europe Counter Terrorism...
18th January 2019
Press Releases
Discrimination
Media advisory • Sengwer activist Elias Kimaiyo available for interview in Brussels An activist from an Indigenous community in Kenya which has suffered forced evictions from their land in Embobut forest, is meeting with the European Institutions this week to seek to resolve issues which led to the...
12th November 2018
Letters
Asia and the Pacific
Detention
01/10/2018 – Letter to EU HR/VP Federica Mogherini to share reports of human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and to call on the European Union (EU) and its member states to urge the Chinese government to take urgent and effective measures to protect Uighurs,...
1st October 2018
Press Releases
Asia and the Pacific
Armed conflict
While the UN Security Council remains bogged down by politics, the Human Rights Council, with the joint leadership of the European Union and Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has stepped up to the challenge with this serious and constructive approach to pave the way for justice AMNESTY...
27th September 2018
Statements And Reports
Asia and the Pacific
Armed conflict
14/09/2018 – Since October 2016, the Myanmar security forces have driven more than 810,000 Rohingya women, men and children into Bangladesh as a result of successive operations in northern Rakhine State marked by crimes under international law. Security forces killed thousands of Rohingya...
14th September 2018
Statements And Reports
Asia and the Pacific
Armed conflict
19/02/2018 – The deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Myanmar warrants a strong and unified response from the European Union (EU) and its member states at several crucial opportunities in the coming weeks.
19th February 2018
Press Releases
Armed conflict
The Myanmar authorities are keeping Rohingya women, men and children segregated and cowed in a dehumanising system of apartheid. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Under strict embargo until Tuesday 21 November at 05.00 CET / 04.00 GMT / 11.00 Bangkok time EU/Myanmar: Rohingya trapped in...
21st November 2017
Press Releases
Armed conflict
The EU has historically led the international response on human rights in Myanmar. Silence now, as a scorched-earth campaign rages, would be deafening – and will not go unnoticed worldwide. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 13 October 2017 EU: Ethnic cleansing in Myanmar demands action...
13th October 2017