Corporación Claretiana Norman Pérez Bello -Centro Claretiano de Investigación y Educación Popular Colombia has one of the highest levels of forced displacement in the world and it is patently clear that the authorities are not doing enough to ensure that stolen lands are effectively returned to...

20/10/2014 – Amnesty International has received a growing number of allegations of execution-style and other deliberate killings of civilians in eastern Ukraine since April 2014, in addition to those that have been reported in Crimea since its annexation by Russia and in Odessa on 2 May...

14/07/2014 – Ending impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious human rights violations and abuses constitutes one of the main challenges facing the Transitional Authorities of the Central African Republic (CAR) as well as members of the international community as a...

17/06/2014 – Amnesty International’s new report, “Serbia: Ending impunity for crimes under international law”, which was launched in Brussels today, highlights continuing impunity in Serbia for crimes under international law – war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide –...

14/04/2014 – Ahead of the 14-15 April Foreign Affairs Council (FAC), Amnesty International calls on the European Union (EU) and its member states to act urgently to bring stability to the Central African Republic (CAR). The newly launched EUFOR RCA military operation must be robust and...

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...

© Tamimi Press AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ‘Trigger-happy’ Israeli army and police use reckless force in the West Bank (27 February 2014) Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West...

12/02/2014 – As a group of international and European human rights and development organisations, we the undersigned are concerned about the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the occupied Gaza Strip. In the context of ongoing discussions on European Union (EU) joint...

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...

22/01/2014 – Following the start of negotiations between Serbia and the European Commission on 21 January 2014 on European Union (EU) membership, Amnesty International is calling for your support of a human rights agreement between Serbia and Kosovo.