Ahead of the high-level Resettlement Forum which you have convened on 7 October, Amnesty International would like to share our assessment of the decisive actions that the EU and participating states need to take to enable the safe passage and evacuation of Afghans at risk from Afghanistan and its...

Spokespeople available   Ahead of the EU ‘Forum for providing protection to Afghans at risk’ being held on 7 October with the UK, USA and Canada, Amnesty International is calling for the EU and participating states to evacuate and resettle Afghans at risk from Afghanistan and neighbouring...

In December 2020, the European Commission presented its long-awaited proposal for a Battery Regulation. The Regulation is in the framework of the European Green Deal, and is the first initiative under the new Circular Economy Action Plan. The proposed legislation introduces mandatory requirements...

Spokespeople available  Ahead of the first EU-Saudi Arabia meeting on human rights on 27 September, Amnesty International is calling on EU leaders to hold Saudi Arabia’s government to account for its campaign to silence dissent, which has accelerated in recent months. The human rights...

As humanitarian needs in Afghanistan continue to escalate, we appeal to the EU to place protection at the centre of its response. We are disappointed by the absence of leadership at the Justice and Home Affairs Council on 31 August and Interior Ministers’ continued focus on preventing people from...

45 NGOs and civil society groups have today released a report urging the European Union and Greek government to abandon plans to dramatically restrict the movement of people in refugee camps in Greece. With financial and technical support from the European Commission, authorities in Greece are...

Dear Mr Buxadé,Dear Shadow Rapporteurs,Dear Members of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), We are writing to you to underline our concerns about the amended proposal to reform the EURODAC Regulation. In this letter, we first outline the aspects of the reform...

Spokespeople available for interview The Polish government’s declaration of a “state of emergency” at the border with Belarus presents serious risks for asylum-seekers trying to reach Poland and threatens to exacerbate the already dire situation faced by 32 Afghans including four women, 27 men and...

Dear High Representative Borrell, We are writing to urge the European Union (EU) and its member states to redouble their engagement on the human rights violations in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in the attached letter. In a recent report “I don’t know if they realized I was a person”: Rape and...

Amnesty International Hungary and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee hereby respectfully submittheir joint observations and recommendations under Rule 9(2) of the “Rules of the Committee ofMinisters for the supervision of the execution of judgments and of the terms of friendly settlements”regarding...

Further to our letter dated 23 February 2021, Amnesty International wants to renew the call for the initiation of infringement proceedings under article 46 § 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of Kavala v. Turkey at the forthcoming 1411th DH meeting of the Committee of...

In a judgment issued today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Russian authorities have failed to properly investigate the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender who was abducted and killed in Chechnya in 2009.  Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s...