JOINT POLICY NOTE 25 APRIL 2019 The extraction, transport, and trade of minerals have been linked to conflict, corruption, and human rights abuses for decades. The minerals trade has financed armed groups, bankrolled oppressive security forces, facilitated money laundering and corruption, and...

Dear High Representative Mogherini, We are writing to express our deep concern about the arrest and sentencing of legal expert and human rights defender Nguyễn Bắc Truyển in Vietnam, and to request that you take all necessary measures to secure his immediate and unconditional release. Nguyễn Bắc...

Forcefully, Publicly Raise Xinjiang, Imprisoned Activists Joint Press Release  Brussels, 04 April 2019 European Union leaders should press their Chinese counterparts on the deteriorating human rights situation in the country during the EU-China Summit in Brussels on April 9, 2019, five human...

Dear President Tusk, Dear President Juncker, Dear High Representative/ Vice-President Mogherini, We write regarding the ongoing discussions among European Union (EU) member states about EU-China relations, and ahead of the forthcoming series of EU-China dialogues, culminating in the EU-China Summit...

VIOLENCE AND ABUSE AGAINST REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS ALONG THE BALKANS ROUTE 13 March 2019 The northwestern Bosnian towns of Bihać and Velika Kladuša, nestled at the very border with Croatia, have become a temporary refuge for some 5,500 refugees and migrants fleeing conflict, persecution and poverty....

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,...

01/10/2018 – Letter to H.E. Ambassador Zhang Ming to express concern about reports on human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and to call on the Chinese government to take urgent and effective measures to protect Uighurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim...

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...

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...

17/07/2018 – We are writing to urge the European Union (EU) and its member states to ensure accountability for crimes against humanity in Myanmar, and in particular to take the lead in the creation of an international accountability mechanism during the upcoming session on Myanmar at the...

09/07/2018 – In high-level dialogues around the third anniversary of China’s ‘July 9 Crackdown’, the European Union must press the Chinese government for the release of detained activists, say human rights groups

19/06/2018 – Various organizations including Amnesty International continue to document China’s abusive campaign against human rights. The EU has taken some steps to push back against these developments. Yet the EU’s commitments to promoting human rights has not been matched in...