© Irish Defence Forces Ensuring access to asylum is an obligation, not an option AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Brussels – 15 December 2015 The protection of the European Union’s (EU) external borders must not come at the expense of refugees’ rights to protection and the...

Refugees walking through Hungary to the Austria border in September. ©Sebastian Brötzner Hungary should take heed and act now to restore the rights of asylum-seekers to access its territory and fair asylum determination proceedings. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH Brussels – 10...

10/12/2015 – Amnesty International sent a briefing to the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on the measures Greece had taken to provide adequate first reception services for refugees on arrival and on the border with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the treatment of...

Every letter, email and petition signature that authorities receive is a chink in an armour that would otherwise be impenetrable, chipping away at the power of those authorities who commit human rights abuses. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Brussels – 4 December 2015 People who speak out...

Refugees and migrants cross the border from Greece into Macedonia, near the village of Idomeni, Greece, 24 August 2015. Amnesty International (Photo: Richard Burton) This is yet another example of Europe’s wholesale failure to deal with the current refugee crisis. From Greece, Turkey and...

Refugees at a transit camp in Brežice, Slovenia. © Amnesty International In the wake of this weekend’s EU-Turkey migration talks, it’s a stain on the EU’s conscience AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH “Reports of Turkey rounding up and detaining over a thousand...

30/11/2015 – On behalf of our respective organizations, we write to seek clarification regarding the status of the Article 52 inquiry launched by former Secretary General Terry Davis in November 2005. This inquiry seeks to verify member states’ compliance with the European Convention on Human...

Tributes to the victims of the 13 November 2015 Paris attacks outside the French embassy in Moscow, Russia. The emergency powers currently being rushed through parliament provide for a sweeping extension of executive powers at the expense of essential human rights safeguards. They must be used only...

Amnesty International and UNHCR representatives at the Hungary-Serbia border fence, with riot police in the background. ©Amnesty International In the wake of this tragedy, the failure to extend solidarity to people seeking shelter in Europe, often after fleeing the very same kind of violence,...

17/11/2015 – Amnesty International is calling on the EU to boost its political engagement for human rights defenders, journalists and civil society at risk in Burundi, in line with the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders.

17/11/2015 – The European Union’s (EU) determination to seal off its external borders is fuelling a range of human rights abuses while doing nothing to halt the influx of desperate refugees, said Amnesty International in a new report published today.

Brick wall in Dublin painted with the message Refugees Welcome. ©Amnesty International Europe’s security is not best served by turning its back on a global refugee crisis, but by ensuring the orderly, organised and humane admission of those fleeing similar horrors. AMNESTY...