Sifting through Facebook, Huwaida stumbled upon the footage she was dreading. But it was only when further photos of her uncle Anwar’s lifeless body emerged & a human rights organization on the ground confirmed it, that she knew for sure. Anwar was dead. Anwar from Sudan, was just one of...

The exclusion of banks and financial institutions, as well as waivers for companies that sell high-risk security equipment and surveillance technologies, undermine a proposed new European Union law governing human rights and businesses, Amnesty International said. The legislation, the EU Corporate...

On 3 October, top EU officials will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in the first high-level meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council in over ten years. Ahead of the meeting, Eve Geddie, Director of Amnesty International’s EU office, said: “Israel is committing the crime of apartheid...

On 12 July 2022, Amnesty International, along with eight other international human rights NGOs sent a letter to the High Representative of the European Union and the 27 EU Foreign Ministers, calling on the European Union to initiate, table and foster broad support for a resolution to create a...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled today that the 2017-2018 detention of Amnesty Turkey’s then-chair, Taner Kılıç was a violation of his rights to liberty and security (Article 5.1, 5.3 and 5.5) and freedom of expression (Article 10). Following the ruling, Amnesty International reiterated its...

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission released its proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence. This Directive could represent a landmark step forward in minimising the negative impacts of businesses on workers, communities and the environment worldwide. However, the...

A dark shadow will hang over Red Square today as Russia marks its annual “Victory Day” with parades of troops and military hardware. The shadow cast by its invasion of Ukraine extends far beyond Russian and Ukrainian borders. Its cause is not just the war crimes and the devastation to so many...

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Ligue desdroits de l’homme (LDH) and Salah Hammouri filed a joint complaint in France targeting the Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, for illegally infiltrating the phone of French Palestinian human rights defender Salah...

This joint letter, signed by 42 international and European civil society organizations, expresses concerns over the leaked draft text of a proposed compromise for a temporary waiver of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

With the war in Ukraine escalating, all countries must take measures to enable exit from Ukraine, offer international protection both to people fleeing Ukraine and to those Ukrainians who are already on their territories and support neighbouring countries and other host countries.

In this brief statement, Nils Muižnieks, Director of Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office, outlines how the case of the El Hiblu 3 is a textbook example of all that is wrong with EU Institutions and Members States’ migration policies in the Central Mediterranean. This statement was...

The undersigned 72 European civil society organisations, represented by European Digital Rights (EDRi), Civil Liberties Union for Europe and Amnesty International, are writing to share our concerns and recommendations for a Digital Services Act (DSA) that benefits people and is compatible with...