(Brussels, 21 March) While the EU celebrates the Year of Equal Opportunities for all, racism and discrimination remains severe and widespread as a fundamental human rights problem across the EU, says Amnesty International on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination....

The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) is a step in the right direction but today’s human rights challenges in Europe call for a much stronger mechanism, says Amnesty International on day of the opening of the new Agency in Vienna. (To access the Amnesty International “speech”...

(Brussels, 26 February) The EU cannot continue to ignore the plight of thousands of citizens who are still living in legal limbo or awaiting compensation from the Slovenian authorities for being denied their most basic rights, says Amnesty International. Exactly fifteen years ago today, a few...

Discrimination against Roma persists in various forms in several European countries. Amnesty International launches a new report on the discrimination of Roma children in primary education. This report looks at the youngest victims of discrimination in three countries of the former-Yugoslavia:...

16/11/2006 – Discrimination against Roma persists in various forms in several European countries, Amnesty International launches a new report on the discrimination of Roma children in primary education.

If the EU wants 2007 to be “European Year of Equal Opportunities”, it needs to ensure as of now that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people can freely express, assemble and associate in countries such as Poland and Latvia. Amnesty International is concerned that despite...

15/11/2006 – The lack of respect, protection and promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons is still an area for concern in several European Union (EU) countries. Amnesty International is concerned that in Poland, the rights to freedom of expression...

20/07/2006 – Letter to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla regarding Amnesty International’s concerns on freedom of assembly in Latvia and the climate of discrimination and intimidation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. See also documents: Latvian...

28/11/2005 – In Slovenia, thousands of people, many of them of Roma origin, are still being denied their basic human rights, after they were unlawfully removed (“erased”) from the country’s registry of permanent residence in 1992.

EU pressure to “keep people out” contributing to serious abuse of migrants’ rights (Brussels/Madrid 26 October 2005)  On the eve of the EU summit in Hampton Court where Spain and France are due to launch a joint initiative on controlling immigration, Amnesty International...

(Brussels, 19 October 2005) With the European Commission due to release its annual monitoring reports on Bulgaria and Romania on 25 October, Amnesty International calls on the European Union to keep up pressure on the two accession countries on some crucial outstanding human rights concerns....

19/10/2005 – The present briefing paper focuses on Amnesty International’s concerns in relation to specific areas of inadequate human rights protection in Bulgaria and Romania, in particular on issues such as the treatment of persons with mental disabilities, discrimination against Roma...