New Law Includes Obligation to Address Abuses in Battery Supply Chains The European Union’s proposed batteries regulation should require importers and manufacturers to source the bauxite, copper, and iron used in batteries responsibly, a coalition of 13 organizations said today. The coalition...

The political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA) that was reached by co-legislators is a landmark moment in the history of Internet regulation, Amnesty International has said today.   The DSA includes new rules that will require Big Tech platforms – including Facebook and...

Amnesty International and partners are calling on European Union member states to ensure the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) contains robust human rights protections, in an open letter published today. The letter – signed by 72 European civil society organizations – is calling for the DSA to be...

Responding to the publication of the European Commission’s proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, Patrick Wilcken, Head of Business and Human Rights at Amnesty International said:  “The EU Commission’s decision to develop a directive marks a milestone on the road...

Tracking-based advertising undermines fundamental rights and furthers the economic interests of Big Tech platforms at the expense of other businesses. The amendment to the Digital Services Act on tracking-based advertising – as voted in IMCO in December 2021 – falls far short of addressing these...

Civil society organisations writing to the President of the European Commission to raise their strong concerns about the new delay to the publication of the planned Commission proposal on a Sustainable Corporate Governance (SCG)

Spokespeople available  Activists and lawyers press conference outside Kosovo Environment Ministry at 13.00 20 October Responding to news that the Austrian-based Kelkos Energy has withdrawn its baseless defamation lawsuits against Shpresa Loshaj and Adriatik Gacaferi, environmental activists...

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...

We, the people of Europe, demand technology that serves us, instead of putting us, our communities and our democracies at risk. We call for an end to Big Tech’s destructive business model which has turned our own data into weapons against us. We demand a better internet, where citizens are able to...

Amnesty International and partners have expressed serious concerns regarding the position of theEuropean Commission on efforts to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and othermedical goods by means of a temporary waiver of certain provisions of the Trade Related Aspects ofIntellectual...

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...

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...