July 30
Africa: Greece - Unlawful Detention On Samos Must Not Become the Blueprint for the EU Migration Pact
Greece must urgently repeal the legal rules that are causing people seeking asylum in the EU-funded "Closed Controlled Access Centre" on the island of Samos to be systematically… Read more »
October 10, 2023
North Africa: EU - Frontex's Lack of Transparency On Libyan Cooperation to Be Heard in Court
Ahead of a hearing at the General Court of the European Union, in which Frontex, the EU border agency, will be questioned over its lack of transparency in relation to its… Read more »
October 03, 2023
Africa: Ten Years Since the Lampedusa Shipwreck, What Lessons Have Been Learned?
Cramped on a fishing trawler, about 500 women, men and children found themselves stranded at sea just metres from dry land and safety. They had mostly fled from Eritrea before… Read more »
June 23, 2023
Morocco: 'Deliberate Cover Up' of Migrant Carnage At Melilla Border Continues
Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure justice, truth and reparation are being… Read more »
March 29, 2023
Africa: UK - Home Office Plans to House Asylum Seekers in Barges Is 'Dismal'
In response to Home Office plans to house people seeking asylum in disused cruise ships, barges and barracks, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's Refugee and Migrant… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Rwanda: UK - PM Announcement to Crackdown On Asylum Is 'Littered With Errors'
In response to the Prime Minister's announcement today to tackle asylum, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK's Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: Qatar - FIFA Failing On Migrant Worker Compensation Fund
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, FairSquare and Equidem condemn FIFA's shifting position on effective compensation scheme FIFA set to make $7.5bn from World Cup which concludes this… Read more »