Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback to the European Commission’s Digital Services Act package. In this document, we outline key policy recommendations to guide the development of the DigitalServices Act.

On the third anniversary of the seizure of the rescue ship, Iuventa, and the judicial investigation into ten members of its crew, Amnesty International is launching a worldwide solidarity campaign.

As the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) starts today, Amnesty International calls on the Presidency to ensure that human rights are at the forefront of their mandate. The German Presidency comes at a key moment amidst the COVID-19 crisis and as the EU faces a host of challenges in its internal and external policy. As European states are gradually remerging from lockdowns, the EU and its member states must put human rights at the centre of the post-COVID-19 recovery, ensuring that individuals and groups most at risk and vulnerable are not left behind.

This paper outlines Amnesty International’s key recommendations to the EU and EU member states participating in the Brussels IV Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region.

Responding to a decision by the European Union’s highest court that Hungary’s 2017 “foreign funding” law violates EU law, Amnesty Hungary’s Director Dávid Vig said:

In a horrifying escalation of police human rights violations at the Croatian border with Bosnia, a group of migrants and asylum seekers was recently bound, brutally beaten and tortured by officers who mocked their injuries and smeared food on their bleeding heads to humiliate them, Amnesty International has revealed today.

Responding to the decision by French authorities to prosecute the three police officers, one of whom assaulted a British human rights defender, Tom Ciotkowski, while he was documenting police abuse against refugees in Calais in 2018, Nicolas Krameyer, Amnesty International France’s Programme Manager, said:

The COVID-19 pandemic is demonstrating all too well that unequal societies go hand-in-hand with human suffering, fragile economies and delicate democracies.

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People’s rights are being violated by governments in Europe and Central Asia, who are cracking down on protests and seeking to erode the independence of the judiciary to avoid accountability, Amnesty International said today as it published its annual review of human rights in the region.

Since 2012, an ongoing institutional reform has centralized court administration in Hungary as the government aims to weaken checks of the executive power and restrict established powers of independent institutions. While judges feel they still can adjudicate relatively freely, the institutional independence of the judiciary hand has been severely undermined and the judges are under attack from multiple direction – according to a new report published by Amnesty International Hungary today.

For me helping is normal. I didn’t know that helping was forbidden. Helping is my duty, as a human being.