23/05/2014 – Amnesty International calls for an immediate, impartial and effective investigation into the deaths of two people following clashes between youths and police in the Okmeydaný district of Istanbul on 22 May.

© Elio Germani With the European elections upon us, Siobhán Murphy, Campaign Assistant at Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, reflects on the steps taken by the European Parliament towards greater protection and fulfilment of LGBTI rights. Over the last five years, the current...

A Syrian refugee in Lebanon holds an x-ray of her left thigh, damaged when she was shot, reportedly by a Syrian army sniper, in 2011 while buying food. She has not received medical care since arriving in Lebanon. March 2014. © Amnesty International It’s time for the international...

19/05/2014 – The publication of several National Action Plans for the UN Guiding Principles’ implementation, the 10 February Foreign Affairs Council conclusions where Ministers reaffirmed their commitments to implementing the UN Guiding Principles, as well as the recent discussions at...

19/05/2014 – On 14 May 2014, the City Court in Novocherkassk, in south-western Russia, ordered the NGO Alliance of Women of the Don, to register as “an organization performing the functions of a foreign agent”.

In some countries, there is a marked lack of will to tackle homophobia and transphobia. © Amnesty International / Rachel Banfield It’s outrageous that in 2014 authorities around the world are failing to legislate against or investigate homophobic and transphobic hate crimes. Even more...

International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia: Why LGBTI Prides are about human rights Today is the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) (17 May). This year’s IDAHO will focus on freedom of expression, ‘encouraging everyone to help make the world a “Free Expression...

Some 245 men are reported to have died with 80 injured after an explosion at a coal mine in Soma, west Turkey. © Ahmet Sik/Getty Images This was a tragedy that should have been avoided. The long history of deaths in mines in Turkey raises chilling questions over workers’ safety. The fact...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT EU leaders must urgently act to stop the increasing death toll in the Mediterranean Sea (Brussels, 13 May 2014) Amnesty International is deeply concerned by the latest tragedy and loss of migrants’ and refugees’ lives off the coast of Lampedusa,...

On 20 March, Amnesty International and activists created a sandy beach on the shores of the European institutions to highlight the human rights violations taking place against asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants at our borders, but away from the public eye. More than a hundred people took part in...

Stop Torture Campaign Press Conference, London, 12th May 2014. © Amnesty International Torture is not just alive and well – it is flourishing in many parts of the world. As more governments seek to justify torture in the name of national security, the steady progress made in this field...

12/05/2014 – Amnesty International fears that the Serbian authorities will ban the 2014 Pride. The 2011, 2012 and 2013 Pride marches were cancelled, after the Serbian authorities had claimed that the police did not have the capacity to ensure adequate security conditions in the face of...