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Press Releases

Asia and the Pacific

Armed conflict

Proposed EU law must stamp out trade in conflict minerals for good

A diamond mine in the Central African Republic. ©Amnesty International

31st January 2016
Press Releases

Europe and Central Asia

Asylum and migration

Dutch plan for EU ‘refugee swap’ with Turkey is morally bankrupt

Refugees arriving by boat to Lesvos, Greece, from Turkey. © Amnesty International

28th January 2016
Letters

Letter to PACE: AI concerned at deterioration of human rights in Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey

25th January 2016
Press Releases

Europe and Central Asia

Asylum and migration

Denmark: Parliament should reject cruel and regressive changes to refugee law

Refugees and migrants in Beli Manastir, Croatia. ©Attila Husejnow

21st January 2016
Letters

Asylum and migration

Request for Information on Activists Transferred from Thailand to China

19th January 2016
Statements And Reports

Europe and Central Asia

Iverna McGowan appointed Head of Amnesty International’s European …

12/01/2016 – On 1 January 2016, Iverna McGowan was appointed as Head of Amnesty International (AI) European Institutions Office and Director of Advocacy, covering work towards the European Institutions including the European Union (EU) and the Council of Europe (CoE).

12th January 2016
Opinion

Slovenia: A chance for equality

18 December 2015

18th December 2015
Press Releases

Europe and Central Asia

Asylum and migration

EU leaders must stop political game-playing and ensure safe and legal routes for refugees

A close shot of a label on a towel which has been provided to refugees from Syria who have been sent to Erzurum Deportation Centre in Erzurum Province, eastern Turkey. This centre is part funded by the European Union. ©Amnesty International

17th December 2015
Press Releases

Middle East & North Africa

Death Penalty

European Parliament Prize exposes EU inaction on Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses

Action against the flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi. ©Henning Schacht/Amnesty International

16th December 2015
Press Releases

Europe and Central Asia

Asylum and migration

Turkey: EU risks complicity in violations as refugees and asylum-seekers locked up and deported

By engaging Turkey as a gatekeeper for Europe in the refugee crisis, the EU is in danger of ignoring and now encouraging serious human rights violations

16th December 2015
Statements And Reports

Europe and Central Asia

Asylum and migration

Europe’s Gatekeeper: Unlawful detention and deportation of refugees from …

16/12/2015 – The report Europe’s Gatekeeper documents how, since September, in parallel with EU-Turkey migration talks, the Turkish authorities have rounded up and herded scores – possibly hundreds – of refugees and asylum-seekers onto buses and transported them more than 1,000 kilometres to isolated detention centres where they have been held incommunicado.

16th December 2015