A migrant ship graveyard in Lampedusa, Italy. © Giles Clarke/Getty Images Reportage. The EU must immediately put in place more safe and legal routes for those in need of protection, ease restrictions on freedom of movement of successful asylum seekers and significantly strengthen financial and...

17/07/2015 – Amnesty International is writing to share with you the call made by more than half a million people for European Union (EU) leaders to strengthen search and rescue (SAR) efforts to save lives of refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean Sea.

Uzbekistan Stop Torture action, October 2014. © Amnesty International By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International In May 2005, in the city of Andijan in eastern Uzbekistan, 23 local businessmen were on trial, accused of being Islamic extremists. There had been a peaceful...

09/07/2015 – Amnesty International wishes to urgently draw your attention to the risk of imminent forced evictions in Nairobi, Kenya, which risks taking place under the European Union (EU) funded ‘Missing Link 15 B’ road construction project. Over 1000 families residing in the Deep Sea...

Credit: Noborder Network https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ With the peak summer crossing months now upon us, European governments can’t falter in their pledges to prevent more tragedies at sea. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 9 July 2015 Spokespeople available for interview A...

08/07/2015 – The measures introduced by the European Union in April 2015 to strengthen search and rescue capacity in the central Mediterranean, following the closure of Italy’s Operation Mare Nostrum at the end of 2014, have resulted in a significant decrease in the death rate of migrants and...

Migrants and refugees are gathered outside the Brick Factory awaiting to be transferred to Hungary, March 2015. Credit: Amnesty International Serbia and Macedonia have become a sink for the overflow of refugees and migrants that nobody in the EU seems willing to receive. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS...

03/07/2015 – Europe’s borderlands: Violations against migrants and refugees in Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary, finds that an increasing number of vulnerable people are being left stranded in legal limbo across the Balkans. The situation is exacerbated by push-backs or deportations at every...

Credit: Amnesty International Amnesty International Diary note & spokesperson availability (Brussels 02 July 2015) As the flow of migrants and refugees entering the western Balkans from Greece reaches unprecedented figures, Amnesty International will launch a new report, Europe’s...

Jonathon McIntosh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ The revelation that the UK government has been spying on Amnesty International highlights the gross inadequacies in the UK’s surveillance legislation. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH 1 July 2015 In a shocking revelation, the...

30/06/2015 – The recommendations outline opportunities to advance human rights issues in relation to five thematic areas: the protection of the rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers; human rights within the EU; the fight against discrimination in the EU; EU external action; and the...

30/06/2015 – Amnesty International is dismayed by the actions of the Turkish authorities, who on 28 June, prevented the annual Pride march from taking place after thousands had already gathered in Taksim, central Istanbul.