AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PRESS RELEASE   EU to support UN call to end female genital mutilation   (Brussels, 19 December 2012) European countries are expected to join the UN call for intensified efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM), a human rights violation which affects...

07/11/2012 – In a new Amnesty International report, Colombia: Hidden from justice. Impunity for conflict-related sexual violence, a follow-up report, we highlight the Colombian authorities’ failure to tackle conflict-related sexual violence.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PRESS QUOTE (Brussels, 14 March) ''We welcome today’s ratification by Turkey of the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence”, said Nicolas Beger, Director of Amnesty International’s...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL   PRESS RELEASE   Time for European commitment to banishing violence against women   (Brussels, 8 March 2012) On International Women’s Day, Amnesty International has challenged the European Union to show tangible progress in freeing Europe from violence...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN WOMEN’S LOBBY PRESS RELEASE   Does the EU have zero vision on ending female genital mutilation   (Brussels, 3 February 2012) Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance of female genital mutilation (FGM), Amnesty International and the European Women’s...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PRESS RELEASE    25 November 2011    “Make Europe a zero tolerance zone for violence against women”: Amnesty International    On the occasion of the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women, Amnesty...

PUBLIC STATEMENT 8 March 2011 AI Index: IOR 61/001/2011 Proposed changes will undermine new European treaty on violence against women Amnesty International is profoundly concerned that last minute efforts are being made to unravel key provisions in the Council of Europe’s Draft Convention on...

17/03/2011 – On International Women’s Day 2011, Amnesty International expressed its profound concerns at last minute efforts by some Council of Europe member states to unravel key provisions in a new European treaty on violence against women.

PRESS RELEASE EU mustn’t overlook north Africa’s women (Brussels, 8 March 2011) A century ago today, a million-plus people marched in Europe’s streets on the first International Women’s Day, calling for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote...

04/03/2011 – Amnesty International calls on the European Commission to have a transparent process in delivering a European policy framework to combat violence against women, in particular female genital mutilation.

END FGM European Campaign AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 December 2010 Buzek, Reding and people of Europe support EU action on female genital mutilation (9 December 2010, Brussels) On the eve of Human Rights Day, Amnesty International’s END FGM European Campaign is calling on the...

02/08/2010 – Amnesty international’s contribution to the consultation on an EU strategy for combating violence against women 2011-2015