By Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office

07/03/2014 – Amnesty International has today launched Injustice Incorporated: Corporate Abuses and the Human Right to Remedy (Injustice Incorporated). The book aims to advance the right to remedy for victims and survivors of corporate human rights abuses. It focuses not just on challenges but on solutions. It provides a manifesto for change; a call to use the law to empower people and to redress the dangerous imbalances that have resulted from the failure to ensure corporate accountability.

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When Al Jazeera hosted a global day of action for their imprisoned staff members in late February, thousands of people in more than 30 cities took part. © SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images

A group of artisanal miners sift through ores found in a stream close to Congo International Mining Corporation (CIMCO)’s plant in Luisha. © Amnesty International

04/03/2014 – Further to Amnesty International’s October 2013 report on the use of armed drones and ahead of the March EU-US summit, we urge the US administration to ensure independent, impartial investigations into credible reports of potentially unlawful deaths from US drone strikes, including killings that Amnesty International documented in its report, ‘Will I Be Next

27/02/2014 – We are writing ahead of tomorrow’s vote by the Parliament on its annual resolution on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union (Louis Michel report).

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24/02/2014 – (Brussels, 24 February 2014) Amnesty International is disappointed that the European Union (EU) member states refused last week to approve a compromise text to support the European Commission’s legal initiative to strengthen the transparency and accountability of European businesses on the social and environmental impact of their operations.