Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/europe.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811278426&lang=e&rss=europe Activists are demonstrating around the world to call for urgent and effective protection of civilians in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. 2008-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811268417&lang=e&rss=europe An innovative two-day meeting in London ? organised by Amnesty International ? has brought together Roma and human rights activists from across Europe. 2008-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=czech_republic,oman,romania,slovakia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR110042008&lang=e&rss=europe In the light of recent allegations of police ill-treatment, Amnesty International calls on the Albanian Minister of the Interior and the Director of the Albanian State Police to issue immediate instructions to the Judicial Police and other police officers reminding them that the torture or ill-treatment of a person, whether during or after arrest, or when the person is simply being questioned as a possible witness to a crime, is a serious criminal offence, both under Albanian and under international human rights law, and will be punished accordingly 2008-11-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=albania http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811198274&lang=e&rss=europe About 500 demonstrators linked to the far right Czech Workers Party, tried to attack a Roma community in the town of Litvinov. 2008-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=czech_republic http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR300102008&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International welcomes the fact that a judicial decision has been reached establishing human rights violations committed by law enforcement officials, including ill-treatment, occurred at the Armando Díaz School during the G8 summit during the night of 21 July 2001, in Genoa, Italy 2008-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=italy http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811128056&lang=e&rss=europe National surveys suggest that more than a quarter of women in Armenia have faced physical violence at the hands of husbands or other family members. 2008-11-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=armenia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811128074&lang=e&rss=europe The recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights met representatives of NGOs at a meeting hosted by Amnesty International in London on Tuesday. 2008-11-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811118066&lang=e&rss=europe Five human rights groups have called on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but who cannot be returned to their country of origin for fear of torture or other human rights violations. 2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR410202008&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International calls on the Spanish government to take prompt action to implement the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee, which issued its concluding observations following examination of Spain's fifth periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on 27 October 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=spain http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR010182008&lang=e&rss=europe On Monday 10 November, following the election of a new US administration, five leading international human rights organizations will present a joint call to European Governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who cannot be returned to their countries of origin for fear of torture or other serious human rights violations 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR580012008&lang=e&rss=europe A year ago on 24 October 2007 a young independent journalist and editor, Alisher Saipov, was killed in his home town of Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan as he was walking down a street with an acquaintance 2008-10-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=kyrgyzstan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810227807&lang=e&rss=europe The UK's highest court will begin hearing two important test cases related to human rights and the UK government's counter-terrorism policies on Thursday. 2008-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=algeria,jordan,united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810207763&lang=e&rss=europe The Turkish Minister of Justice has accepted the responsibility of the state in the case of Engin Çeber who died after being held at the Metris Prison in Istanbul. 2008-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=turkey http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR210082008&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International expressed concern today that Karinna Moskalenko and her family may have been the victims of mercury poisoning 2008-10-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=france http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810147707&lang=e&rss=europe Turkish law enforcement officials have expelled the same group of Uzbekistani refugees into Iranian territory for the second time in one month. 2008-10-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran,turkey,uzbekistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810137696&lang=e&rss=europe The House of Lords rejected proposals on Monday that would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism cases to be extended up to 42 days. 2008-10-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810137695&lang=e&rss=europe The House of Lords in the UK is expected to vote on Monday on proposals that would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism cases to be extended. 2008-10-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810066096&lang=e&rss=europe As World Habitat Day focuses on the state of the housing rights situation across the globe, here are case studies from cities in Cambodia, Brazil, Italy, Israel and Angola. 2008-10-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=angola,brazil,cambodia,italy http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810016067&lang=e&rss=europe Tens of thousands of displaced people are still unable to return home after the Georgia-Russia conflict. Amnesty International collected eye-witness accounts from survivors of the hostilities and took photographs of the war's aftermath. 2008-10-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=georgia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810016072&lang=e&rss=europe The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists and the participants of the Sarajevo Queer Festival continue to receive death threats. 2008-10-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=bosnia_herzegovina http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200809266044&lang=e&rss=europe Several people were attacked at the end of the first day of the Sarajevo Queer Festival on Wednesday. 2008-09-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=bosnia_herzegovina http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808295836&lang=e&rss=europe The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to heal the wounds caused by the horrific violations of human rights committed by all sides to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina? 2008-08-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=bosnia_herzegovina http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808295837&lang=e&rss=europe Nidzara Ahmetasevic talks about how she was wounded in the leg, about the Karadzic trial and about her hopes and dreams for the future of her country. 2008-08-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=bosnia_herzegovina http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808225813&lang=e&rss=europe Displaced civilians and refugees who fled during the conflict, as well as those who remained in the areas where hostilities have taken place, are in continued need of humanitarian assistance. Some also remain vulnerable to ethnically motivated attacks. 2008-08-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=georgia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080814001&lang=e&rss=europe Civilians in Georgia remain vulnerable to serious human rights abuses, including attacks on the basis of their ethnicity, despite the end of large-scale hostilities. There have also been reports of attacks on Georgians and their property in the Russian Federation. 2008-08-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=georgia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808125741&lang=e&rss=europe After months of increased tension, and recent low-level hostilities, the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia escalated in the early morning of 8 August 2008. 2008-08-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=georgia,russian_federation http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808105719&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International has called on all sides to the conflict in South Ossetia to fully respect international humanitarian law in order that civilians are protected from hostilities. 2008-08-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=georgia,russian_federation http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR440142008&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International condemns in the strongest terms the July 27 bombings in Gungoren, a residential neighborhood in western Istanbul. 2008-07-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=turkey http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGEUR460242008&lang=e&rss=europe Amnesty International deplores today's reported arbitrary detention and beating of human rights activist Zurab Tsechoev, in Ingushetia 2008-07-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=russian_federation http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200807245591&lang=e&rss=europe Large numbers are inappropriately placed in special schools, receive a substandard education and have very limited opportunities for employment and further education. 2008-07-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=oman,romania,slovakia