Reacting to the Finnish Parliament’s approval of the emergency law on the so-called “instrumentalization” of migration, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe, Dinushika Dissanayake said: “This law gravely undermines access to asylum and the protection from refoulement in...

Ahead of the first plenary of the newly elected European Parliament, over 90 human rights and humanitarian organizations are calling on the new European Union to take a firm stance to maintain the right to asylum and the rule of law. The organizations, which include Amnesty International, the...

In Italy, migrants and people seeking asylum are being unlawfully deprived of their liberty in detention centres that fall below international standards, Amnesty International said today in its new public statement, “Liberty and Dignity: Amnesty International’s observations on the administrative...

People, regardless of how they arrive to a country, have the right to liberty under international law. While migration-related detention is allowed by international law, detention solely for migration-related purposes is only permitted in the most exceptional of circumstances and there is a...

Moroccan and Spanish authorities must step up their efforts to uncover the fate of at least 70 men, mainly from Sudan and Chad, who remain missing, two years after a deadly crackdown by Moroccan and Spanish security forces against sub-Saharan Africans attempting to cross the border from Morocco...

The theme of the 54th Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) is “Integrity and Security for Sustainable Development of the Region”. Amnesty International believes that integrity and security can only be fully upheld if there is a focus on respecting and...

Since September 2023, Egypt’s Border Guard Forces and police have carried out mass arbitrary arrests of Sudanese people who fled the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan for irregularly entering or staying in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities held women, men and children in cruel and inhuman conditions,...

The undersigned organizations call on the government of Tunisia to end its ongoing crackdown on the rights to free expression and free association and to respect the human rights of everyone in Tunisia.

Little progress has been made in investigating the shipwreck of an overcrowded trawler, the Adriana, off the coast of Pylos, Greece on 14 June 2023, according to Amnesty International and Human Right Watch. The boat was carrying an estimated 750 people, mainly from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt. Only...

This statement is made in respect of Amnesty International Limited, the entity which employs the staff of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat and conducts its global operations, for the financial year 1 January to 31 December 2023. It describes the actions that the International...

Regarding the Finnish Government’s proposal for an emergency law on the so-called “instrumentalization” of migration, defined in the text as actions by “states or other actors” to facilitate irregular migration movements into another country in an attempt to destabilize it, Director of Amnesty...