As the 2015 Pride season ends, we look at why Pride events are still so important for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and activists across the world. 1. People are still attacked because of their real or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity Activists at...

Hundreds of refugees and asylum-seekers stranded in dire conditions overnight on Croatia/Slovenia border. © Amnesty International If EU member states race to the bottom in terms of how they deal with the refugee crisis it could spark a domino effect with drastic consequences for thousands of...

19/10/2015 – Following the first known case of a fatal shooting on EU’s border, Amnesty International calls on the Bulgarian Minister of Interior to ensure that the investigation opened in the death of the Afghan asylum-seeker at the Bulgarian – Turkish border on the night of 15 October is...

Migrants walk on a highway near Edirne, Turkey, September 19, 2015. ©Reuters/Osman Orsal Angela Merkel must insist that Turkey cleans up its act before treating it as a reliable partner in the EU’s border management AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE London – 17 October 2015...

Refugees wait to be processed inside the Presevo transit center in Presevo, Serbia, Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images Reportage) Instead of rising to the challenge of this unprecedented crisis, many governments have been busy devising ways to keep people outside their...

Scrutiny of the human rights situation in Hungary has repeatedly fallen through the cracks, with member states and institutions endlessly passing the buck on who is ultimately responsible for upholding human rights in the EU. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE London – 8 October 2015 The...

08/10/2015 – The Hungarian government has invested more than 1OO million euros on razor-wire fencing and border controls to keep refugees and migrants out, triple the amount it spends yearly on receiving asylum seekers, Amnesty International revealed in a new briefing published today.

06/10/2015 – Amnesty International has written to the Luxembourgish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, chairing the JHA meeting on Thursday 8 October which will follow up on several measures to respond to the current refugee crisis. We are calling EU leaders to focus on safe and...

01/10/2015 – The following joint statement lists concrete recommendations for both EU institutions and Member States. We call upon the European Commission and Member States to ensure the event puts forward concrete recommendations that will be followed up by all relevant parties.

Röszke, Hungary, a few hundred meters after the border to Serbia, provided by Amnesty activists Christina Vogler and Sebastian Brötzner. ©AI Austria / Sebastian Brötzner Without much more concrete and immediate assistance to frontline countries, the chaotic and tragic scenes we...

Photographs shot at the Horgos-Roszke border crossing between Serbia and Hungary where the Hungarian authorities have completed a border fence and shut down the official border crossing. ©Amnesty International This isn’t migration management; it’s an erosion of humanity. AMNESTY...

21 September 2015 By Eliza Goroya in Kos, Greece and Khairunissa Dhala and Lorna Hayes in Berlin, Germany “There was this Syrian family: a father with a small girl. She tried to open the door of my car. I thought she must be after the food, so I asked her father what they need. ‘You […]