EU-Bahrain Cooperation Agreement Must Depend on Human Rights Improvements Your Excellencies, In light of the meeting between Bahrain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and the European Union scheduled to take place in Brussels on 10 February 2021, we are writing to raise concerns about the deterioration...

A court in Moscow has sentenced opposition activist and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny to two years and eight months in a penal colony, amid a brutal crackdown on peaceful protests which saw at least 5,021 people detained on 31 January alone. The Simonovsky District Court granted a motion put...

Dear High Representative, Dear Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Ahead of the High Representative’s upcoming visit to Moscow, we are writing to urge the EU to take robust and public action to support those in Russia who courageously defend human rights in the face of spiralling levels of repression. It...

This afternoon, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament adopted an important report requesting the European Commission to submit a formal proposal for an EU due diligence law. The law requires business enterprises, including financial institutions, to address human rights,...

Joint open letter to the EU and its member states Dear High Representative, Dear Foreign Ministers, We are writing ahead of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Council discussion on Egypt to raise our serious concerns, once again, about the human rights crisis unfolding in the country, and to urge the...

Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue Scheduled for January 12 (Brussels, 11 January 2021) The EU should  take a strong stand and press India to immediately end systemic human rights violations, seven organizations said today, ahead of the European Union-India human rights dialogue scheduled for  January...

Responding to the European Council decision to continue with its plan to ensure that countries accessing the EU Budget comply with fundamental rights, Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office said: “Given the dire situation of the rule of law in Hungary and...

Responding to the Counter-Terrorism Agenda for the EU, announced by the European Commission today as part of the Security Union Package, Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office said: “The premise of this proposal is flawed. It falsely posits that more...

Leading human rights organisations have come together to demand the acquittal of 19 human rights defenders for their participation in a Pride parade in 2019, ahead of the verdict expected on Thursday. The 18 students and an academic at the Middle East Technical University (METU) are facing prison...

Following the strongly worded interim resolution by the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers demanding Turkey release Osman Kavala from prison immediately, Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said: “A year almost to the day after the European Court for Human Rights...

Dear Chancellor Merkel, On November 16, two EU member states blocked the adoption of the Multi‐Annual Financial Framework (MFF) and the COVID‐19 Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) in an attempt to prevent the adoption of conditionalities for the protection of the EU budget from breaches of the...

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