21/01/2010 – In light of the forthcoming Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on 25 January, Amnesty International would like to draw attention to concerns regarding the human rights situations in Iran and Somalia, both of which will be discussed during the meeting.

30/09/2009 – Letter to Karel De Gucht accompanying the Amnesty International report : “No place for us here: Violence against refugee women in eastern Chad”.

27/07/2009 – AI addresses the first GAERC of the Swedish Presidency, calling for human rights to be put at the centre of a regional strategy on the Horn of Africa.

22/07/2009 – Though Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa, it has a massive record of human rights violations such as torture and ill treatment, enforce disappearances, restriction on freedom of expression and arrests of prisoners of conscience and of political opponents to...

30/06/2009 –  Oil has been extracted commercially in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, for half a century. The massive oil deposits have generated billions of dollars in revenues for the country yet the vast majority of people living in the oil producing areas live in poverty. Oil may have...

30/06/2009 – Oil has been extracted commercially in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, for half a century. The massive oil deposits have generated billions of dollars in revenues for the country yet the vast majority of people living in the oil producing areas live in poverty. Oil may have brought...

15/06/2009 – Human rights must be on the agenda at June Ministerial Meeting.

08/06/2009 – Amnesty calls for prison conditions and use of the death penalty to be discussed at Ministerial Meeting.

29/04/2009 – Ahead of the European Union – African Union Ministerial Troika, to urge you to use the discussion to make progress on ending impunity for crimes under international law. Amnesty International calls on both sides of the meeting to renew prior AU and EU declarations by making...

25/03/2009 – In light of the fact that the next round of the European Union (EU) – African Union (AU) dialogue is taking place from 15 to 17 April, Amnesty International is writing to propose a number of issues which we would encourage the EU to raise with AU counterparts in the...

05/11/2008 – Amnesty International would like to draw attention to its latest report on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. The report documents human rights violations and abuses following the presidential, parliamentary and local government elections on 29 March 2008 and the...

Mauritania: Under pressure from the EU, migrants face illegal arrest and collective expulsion (Brussels, 2 July) Irregular migrants attempting to reach Europe are being arrested, ill-treated and collectively expelled from Mauritania, sometimes not to their home countries, and without opportunity to...