You have to look very hard to spot human rights here. Last week's @ec.europa.eu Joint Communication on the EU-India strategic agenda has even less commitment on rights than last time in 2018. And not a mention of the profound rights crisis affecting people across India.

Last Friday, activists from MANTHOC Perú with support of Amnesty International Peru met with the European External Action Service in Brussels. They raised the alarm about river pollution and deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and weak protection for environmental defenders in Peru.

@amnesty.org joins over 200 organisations in calling for rejection of the @ec.europa.eu’s ‘Return Regulation’. The new proposal on deportations would vastly expand detention, strip away rights, and trap more people in legal limbo and dangerous conditions.

Pressure works! The EU can no longer ignore the clear demand of millions to end Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Shamefully late, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu proposes EU action on Gaza after nearly 2 years of Israel’s relentless bombardment & starvation. But what's next? 🧵

Unprecedented. The United States might be on track to become the first country to fully walk away from the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a regular, important human rights related review. www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...

🎂 Happy birthday to Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan. After a brief moment of freedom, she has now spent over a year detained on vague criminal charges, awaiting an unfair trial. Illustrator: @badiucao.bsky.social

No more excuses. No more delays. Every EU failure to act is a greenlight for Israel to continue its genocide in Gaza. As EU ministers meet today in Denmark, @amnestydk.bsky.social sent them a message they can't ignore: 👉Suspend the EU–Israel Agreement NOW.

Three years ago, a UN report concluded that China was responsible for grave human rights violations in Xinjiang. It is shameful that the international community has failed to act.

Aux côtés de @sosmediterranee.fr nous demandons : ✖️ une enquête sur l'attaque inacceptable dont a été la cible l’#OceanViking ✖️ la réévaluation urgente du soutien européen aux garde-côtes libyens ✔️ le respect du droit maritime et la fin de la criminalisation des sauvetages en mer

“They said we would die” @amnesty.org new briefing exposes grave abuses in North & South Kivu, DRC. Gang rapes, summary executions, torture & attacks on health facilities by #M23, Wazalendo & the Congolese army (FARDC). Many may amount to war crimes. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Slovenia: Facilitating the transfer of arms to Israel ‘alarming’ & violates intl' law According to reports, A-E Electronics, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, used a Slovenian port to transport military cargo to Israel despite Slovenia’s ban. Read our press release: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/pr...

Greece: Disturbing statements from migration minister Thanos Plevris indicating that NGOs challenging govt migration policy before courts will be subject to audit. The seemingly punitive measures would amount to an assault on freedom of association & have a chilling effect on civil society 🧵

@amnestynorge.bsky.social welcomes Government Pension Fund divestment from some companies based in Israel, but move falls short of addressing a systemic failure of its current ethical safeguards 🧵

Amnesty International welcomes the @echr.coe.int order to temporarily suspend the deportation of a Syrian man from Austria to Syria. Austria must uphold its human rights obligations & scrap deportations to Syria entirely 🧵

📢 Last week the EU expanded its pioneering Anti-Torture Regulation, adding more equipment used for torture and other ill-treatment to the trade ban and control lists – a key move to protect detainees, protesters and human rights defenders.

It’s one year since the #AIAct became officially an EU law. As authorities prepare for its full application, we break down what’s at stake and how to protect our rights when governments use surveillance tech - especially in migration & law enforcement👇🧵

As 3 Palestine solidarity protesters go on trial in Rhodes, @amnesty.org is once again concerned for the right to protest and freedom of expression in Greece 🧵 #ProtectTheProtest

Disgraceful. Shameful. The EU can't even muster the barest minimum measures to even start to hold Israel to account. This failure comes just as Israeli human rights organizations join others in finding that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

Palestinians need action, not words. Last week, the 27 EU foreign ministers failed to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Since then, statements from EU leaders ring incredibly hollow in the face of starvation in the Gaza Strip. ft.com/content/a306...

This year marks 50 years of EU-China diplomatic relations. Let’s not forget 50 brave human rights defenders silenced by Beijing. As leaders meet in Beijing this week, the EU must turn words into action 🧵

Landmark ruling in Belgium! Today, a Brussels court ruled that the Flemish government must block transit to Israel of all goods that can be used in military equipment, citing Israel's breaches of int'l law. There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide.

⚠️72 organizations including @amnesty.org call on the Greek government to immediately withdraw unlawful provisions that suspend access to asylum. @ec.europa.eu must take urgent measures end to this violation in line with its responsibilities under EU law. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

📢New @amnesty.org report on how the Venezuelan authorities commit enforced disappearances as part of a widespread & systematic attack against the civilian population, particularly those they consider dissidents. These amount to crimes against humanity. Inaction is not an option.

Today, EU ministers will decide whether to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Anything less than a suspension will be a greenlight for Israel to continue its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, unlawful occupation of OPT & apartheid.🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-isra...

Shameful vote in the #Greek Parliament today on a proposal to suspend asylum applications for three months for people arriving by boat from North Africa. Equally shameful is the @ec.europa.eu's apparent endorsement, stating that Greece is in "an exceptional situation". Let's be clear...

What a difference a day makes. On Monday, we warned the EU about deepening its migration cooperation with Libya. By Tuesday eve, the EU delegation was denied entry to Eastern Libya, declared a 'persona non grata' & ordered to leave. With 'friends' like these who needs enemies?

"The EU’s migration cooperation with Libya is morally bankrupt and amounts to complicity in horrific human rights violations," says @evegeddie.bsky.social Today @magnusbrunner.bsky.social is in Libya with ministers to discuss migration cooperation 🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-liby...

The 709 Crackdown led to the unjust prosecution & persecution some of China’s most diligent human rights lawyers & legal activists. But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The EU’s return & ‘safe country’ proposals weaken access to asylum, downgrade people’s rights & increase the risk of refoulement & arbitrary detention in countries outside the EU. 50+ NGOs call on EU to reject attempts to weaken protections further. 🔗 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-safe...

Today, Denmark takes over the Presidency of the Council of the EU. With the rise of authoritarian practices & attacks on human rights across the EU and globally, @eu2025dk.bsky.social must put human rights at the forefront of its mandate. See @amnesty.org’s recommendations👇

According to @magnusbrunner.bsky.social the Libyan authorities are a bit "dodgy". The UN has described conditions in Libyan detention for migrants as crimes against humanity. Dear Commissioner, please clarify, are rape, unlawful killing and forced labour - just a bit "dodgy" to you?

📢Iran: Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali is at imminent risk of execution after reports he was transferred on 24 June from Greater Tehran Penitentiary to an undisclosed location. 📢EU: Call on Iran's authorities to immediately halt any plans to execute him & release him now!

There can be no business as usual with a country committing genocide. The EU must SUSPEND the EU-Israel Association Agreement NOW. EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs & @kajakallas.bsky.social - words are not enough 🧵 www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-must...

Momentous turn in Pylos shipwreck case. 17 Greek coastguard officers have been charged in connection with the Pylos shipwreck. 'Accountability is key to ending the cycle of violence and impunity at Greece’s borders,' say Amnesty International & @hrw.org

Tomorrow, EU ministers will discuss Hungary's compliance with #HumanRights & #RuleOfLaw. The situation is alarming. Civil society, independent media, LGBTI people & international law are at risk. Amnesty International & 5 NGOs call for urgent & concrete action.

🚨Last chance to join the class action in Lithuania for unlawfully detained asylum seekers🚨 If you were detained in Lithuania for at least 6 months between July 2021-July 2022 after crossing from Belarus to seek asylum and want to seek justice, contact [email protected]

Hungary has launched "Operation Starve & Strangle" on civil society. A new bill would allow the government to defund & dissolve any organisation it designates as “a threat to Hungarian sovereignty”. 320+ NGOs call on the EU to protect independent voices in Hungary. www.amnesty.eu/news/hungary...

In eastern DRC, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters gang-raped women, tortured detainees, attacked rights defenders Amnesty International's Tigere Chagutah wrote in @euobserver.com how the EU critical raw minerals deal with Rwanda risks putting profits before Congolese lives euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

NEW: @ec.europa.eu ‘safe third country’ proposals cynical attempt to downgrade rights & offload responsibilities. "The EU should invest in its own asylum systems & let people seeking asylum start rebuilding their lives," says @oliviasundberg.bsky.social Read👇

Momentum is building. EU foreign ministers & @kajakallas.bsky.social could take the long overdue decision to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Will the EU find its backbone? Or will its callous indifference to Palestinian suffering become a stain on its legacy & leadership? 🧵

Today, @amnesty.org & 57 other organizations sent a letter calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu & @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu to respond to Erdoğan’s escalating clampdown on human rights in Türkiye. Joint letter👇

This Nakba Remembrance Day, instead of silencing voices in support of Palestinian human rights, the EU and all states must act and stop the genocide.

While @ec.europa.eu defends declaring Tunisia a safe country to return Tunisians to, @amnesty.org’s @oliviasundberg.bsky.social warns that the assessment “absolutely downplays the human rights backsliding that we've seen in the last few years”. Via @euobserver.com 👇

Germany: As Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip are starving under Israel’s genocide, Steinmeier & Wadephul's meetings with Netanyahu are an affront to justice. Germany should be straining every sinew to arrest & surrender Benjamin Netanyahu to the ICC 🧵

❗❗Important❗❗ As EU foreign ministers meet, the Netherlands requests a review of Israel’s compliance with the EU-Israel association agreement - highlighting Article 2 - Israel’s obligations under humanitarian law. In doing so, the Netherlands joins Spain, Ireland & Slovenia.

In 2022, @amnesty.org found that #Poland was conducting unlawful & forced returns of asylum seekers arriving at the border with Belarus Dozens died due to lack of medical care, malnutrition & exhaustion A new law passed effectively allows "pushbacks" at the border👇 www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

📢Journalists! @amnesty.org will hold its global launch of the State of the World’s Human Rights Report in Brussels. 🗓️April 28 🕐12:00 PM (CET) 📍The Press Club, Brussels Rue Froissart 95, 1040 RSVP: In-person ✉️[email protected] Online: amnesty-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨Urgent: the deadline for unlawfully detained asylum seekers to join the class action in #Lithuania is approaching. If this applies to you, please contact us as soon as possible. Please share @theecre.bsky.social, @ifrc.org, @refugeecouncil.bsky.social. More➡️

Tunisia: Days after @ec.europa.eu proposes Tunisia is safe for Tunisians to be returned to - alarming crackdown on dissent. 40 people incl. politicians & rights defenders sentenced to prison terms ranging from 13-66 years. Some live in the EU. @ec.europa.eu cannot ignore this.

Benham Satah was detained in Manus for seven years by the Australian government. He shared with @politico.eu a harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice. As European states make similar plans, they should read his testimony and think twice. www.politico.eu/article/offs...