Dr Pietro Bartolo (2nd from right) meets with an Amnesty International delegation at Lampedusa hospital, 24 April 2015. © Amnesty International Lampedusa’s medic to the migrants By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International Dr Pietro Bartolo has seen more suffering and death in...

18/05/2015 – The European Union is the world’s largest economy, the world’s largest trading block, and home to 500 million consumers. Every year, millions of euro worth of minerals flow into the EU from some of the poorest places on earth. No questions are asked about how they are extracted,...

Today we have seen the European Commission take a first step in shifting its Fortress Europe attitude towards the refugee crisis, but it will need to be implemented expansively and with the full backing of all EU member states. AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE (Brussels 13 May 2015) New proposals...

Dilorom Abdukadirova. © Amnesty International Ten years after Central Asia’s ‘forgotten massacre’, Uzbekistan’s rights record can no longer be ignored 12 May 2015  By John Dalhuisen, director of Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia programme...

Uzbekistan Stop Torture action, October 2014. © Amnesty International Governments in Europe and the USA have continued to turn a blind eye to this and other appalling human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, seemingly for fear of upsetting a strategic ally. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 12 May...

African migrants are transferred to a detention centre after being detained in Zawiya, northern Libya. Credit: Reuters European leaders must ensure that refugees and migrants fleeing conflict and human rights abuses are never pushed back to Libya. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 11 May 2015...

07/05/2015 – ‘Libya is full of cruelty’: Stories of abduction, sexual violence and abuse from migrants and refugees exposes the full horror and plight of refugees and migrants in Libya, many of whom are driven to risk their lives in treacherous sea crossings in a desperate attempt to reach...

06/05/2015 – Amnesty International calls on you to act to ensure that the European Union (EU), its member states, and the wider international community remain committed to protecting and supporting the crucial work of human rights defenders (HRDs), and particularly of women human rights...

A file photograph showing snipers taking up position at the top of a building under the graffiti of an eye and the mention of 1984 at the Place de la Nation march in January 2015. Credit: EPA/ETIENNE LAURENT French authorities could soon be bugging peoples’ homes, cars and phone lines without...

30/04/2015 – About 30 Roma, half of them children, are at imminent risk of being forcibly evicted once again by the local municipality of Eforie, in south-east Romania. Amnesty International, European Roma Rights Centre and Romani CRISS are calling on the Eforie municipality to refrain from...

Interior of container school for Roma children in Slovakia. Credit: Amnesty International In this day and age, it is shocking that Romani children in Slovakia are systematically segregated from non-Roma children and put in special schools. Amnesty International, European Network Against Racism,...

Italian Coast Guard rescue vessels in the harbour of Lampedusa. Credit: Amnesty International AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY 27 April 2015 Amnesty International spokespeople have just returned from Sicily and Lampedusa Today's “solidarity” voyage by high-ranking United Nations...