Amnesty International reveals new evidence of torture, ill-treatment and illegal pushbacks of refugees and migrants to Turkey  People apprehended and detained up to 700km away from the border before being transferred...

This action plan includes 20 recommendations from Amnesty International, ECRE and Human Rights Watch for EU institutions and member states, to protect people on the move along the central Mediterranean route.

Concerted Action needed to Counter Rule of Law Threats in Poland and Hungary European Union affairs ministers should put the governments of Hungary and Poland on notice that there is no place for attacks on the rule of law in the EU and step up scrutiny of their human rights-abusive policies,...

Esther Kiobel has been fighting for a long time to hold those accountable who are responsible for the unlawful killing of her husband Dr Barinem Kiobel and 8 other men in 1995 in Nigeria. The struggle is ongoing. It took two decades, only for her to be allowed to give testimony of what happened in...

Dear Member of the Parliamentary Assembly, On 21 May Hungary took the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers amidst a serious national human rights, democracy and rule of law crisis which has no end in sight. Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human...

As a coalition of NGOs working closely on the EU’s upcoming proposal Sustainable Corporate Governance Directive, we appreciate that the German supply chain law adopted today will now oblige certain German companies to undertake human rights – and to a limited extent environmental – due...

Dear President Von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans, and Commissioners Sinkevičius, Reynders and Breton, In recent weeks, it has been reported that the Commission will delay the adoption of the legislative proposals on (i) minimising the risk of deforestation and forest degradation...

Dear Commissioner Johansson, As civil society organisations closely following the negotiations of the Pact on Migration and Asylum, including the proposed independent border monitoring mechanism and related national developments, including in Croatia, we would like to express our interest in...

Dear Secretary General, Dear Permanent Representative, As Hungary assumes the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on 21 May 2021, Amnesty International would like to draw your attention to the human rights situation in this member State and raise concerns about a series of...

The Hungarian Parliament today has finally repealed ‘LexNGO’ from 2017, the law that stigmatized and hindered the work of civil society in Hungary. Worryingly, at the same time it introduced new measures that threaten the work of the NGOs. Responding to today’s development, the Director of Amnesty...

Ensuring corporate accountability for environmental impacts in the upcoming EU directive on sustainable corporate governance As the European Union (EU) develops a directive on sustainable corporate governance, this briefing outlines why and how environmental protection must be integrated into...

Responding to today’s judgment of the European Court of Human Rights which found that irregularities in the election of judges to the Constitutional Court of Poland had precluded access to a “tribunal established by law”, Amnesty International’s European Institutions Director, Eve Geddie, said: “We...