10/03/2014 – Three years after popular pro-reform then anti-government protests drew a brutal response from the Syrian authorities, leading to the internal armed conflict that continues to rage, around a quarter of a million civilians are living under siege across Syria. Many have endured...

Residents wait to receive UNRWA food aid at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp on January 31, 2014.© unrwa.org Syrian forces are committing war crimes by using starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. The harrowing accounts of families having to resort to eating cats and dogs, and civilians attacked...

12/02/2014 – “Ethnic cleansing” of Muslims has been carried out in the western part of the Central African Republic, the most populous part of the country, since early January 2014. 1 Entire Muslim communities have been forced to flee, and hundreds of Muslim civilians who have not managed to...

Burning/looting of Muslim property and a mosque in PK 26 area, north of the capital Bangui in late January.© Amnesty International The urgency of the situation demands an immediate response. It is time for the peacekeeping operation in CAR to protect the civilian population, deploy to threatened...

19/12/2013 – An Amnesty International delegation has just returned from a two-week mission to Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR) and documented serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross violations of human rights following the 5 December attack in Bangui and its...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   EU must press for Sri Lankan war crimes accountability   (Brussels, 13 May 2013) Ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Sri Lankan conflict’s conclusion, Amnesty International has urged the European Union to demand publicly an independent, impartial...

26/04/2012 – In June 2012, the Council of the European Union will approve the extension of the mandate of the EU-led rule of law mission in Kosovo, (EULEX). In this report, Amnesty International advocates that the new mandate should include specific measures to ensure that EULEX, as a matter...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Time for EU Kosovo mission to focus on war crimes   (Brussels, 26 April 2012) As the Council of the European Union prepares to extend the mandate of its Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo, a new Amnesty International report demands that the mission...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Last chance to investigate Croatian war crimes: “EU must act” (Brussels, 12 October 2011) As the European Commission prepares to issue its progress report on Croatia’s suitability to join the European Union, Amnesty International has expressed alarm at the...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE EU mustn’t undermine justice for war crimes in Israel/OPT (Brussels, 26 September 2011) Following his speech at the United Nations on 23 September, when the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, sought full UN membership, Amnesty...

AI AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE   Croatia must speed up war crimes prosecutions   (Brussels 9 December 2010) The Croatian authorities should prioritise and speed up the prosecution of war crimes suspects, Amnesty International has said in a report, Behind a wall of silence:...

15/04/2009 – In view of the General Affairs and External Relations Council on 27/28 April 2009, Amnesty International once again calls on the EU to consistently apply its own Guidelines by adopting clear conclusions in favour of full investigation and accountability for violations of...