04/02/2010 – Ahead of the European Forum Beijing+15, Amnesty International takes the opportunity to remind the EU of the crucial role it has to play in the advancement of women’s rights, especially sexual and reproductive health and rights. Hosted by the Spanish Presidency, this Forum is set to assess the internal and external actions of the European Union (EU) on gender equality as well as the progress achieved.

Representatives of women NGOs and survivors of rape visit Brussels

31/07/2009 – Amnesty International has recently launched a new report entitled The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized. This report is being published on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the revised Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua, which came into force in July 2008. The report examines the consequences of Nicaragua’s total ban on abortion on women and girls who need life-saving medical treatment.

31/07/2009 – Letter to Ms. Ferrero-Waldner accompanying the Nicaragua report.

09/07/2009 – Amnesty International is publishing a new report today on maternal health in Peru which documents progress in tackling maternal mortality since the 2006 report, Peru: Poor and excluded women – Denial of the right to maternal and child health.

23/04/2008 – The briefing provides background information on five key human rights concerns in Egypt.

23/04/2008 – Letter to the Presidency to raise the following five current human rights concerns in Egypt: counter-terrorism and state of emergency; freedom of expression, association and assembly; lethal and excessive use of force against migrants and refugees; courts; and men convicted of ‘debauchery’.

20/07/2006 – Letter to European Commissioner Vladimir Spidla regarding Amnesty International’s concerns on freedom of assembly in Latvia and the climate of discrimination and intimidation against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. See also documents: Latvian authorities fail to protect LGBT community Latvia must protect the rights to freedom of assembly and expression for all