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A leadership test for the EU

30/05/2018 – With the attached letter, we are writing to share with you Amnesty International’s recently issued report Families Torn Apart: Forced Eviction Of Indigenous People In Embobut Forest, Kenya that sheds light on the forced eviction of the Sengwer Indigenous community from their ancestral homes and land in the Embobut Forest, Kenya. The government has stated that the forest must be cleared in order to implement a project funded by the European Union (EU).

Development is vital for Kenya, but it must not carry a human cost. All donors funding projects in Embobut Forest, including the EU, must ensure that conservation and climate change projects do not cause, or contribute to, human rights violations

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This is an alarming state of affairs, we could be weeks away from a situation where NGOs cannot operate in an EU member state

Spain’s austerity measures are in direct conflict with the government’s obligation to fulfil the right to health.

Forcing asylum-seekers to stay on the Greek islands, often in squalid, overcrowded conditions, is deeply unfair.

The UK, German, Dutch and Italian governments have been assisting in the USA’s secret global killing programme for years, providing vital intelligence and infrastructure despite mounting civilian casualties and allegations of unlawful killings, including war crimes