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“My son has gone, like all young men.” Samia Zouaoui’s son, Mehrez El Kilani, was 22 when the boat he was in sank on its way from Tunisia to Europe last year. His story reflects how European policies force migrants into taking dangerous routes to Europe. See more photos and take action at whenyoudontexist.eu
FILM: UK screenings Get a Hard Rock of No Café/U2 T-shirt to support human Pablo Larraín’s new Oscar-nominated film, No, about an advertising executive rights hired to help the 1988 political campaign to defeat Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, was specially screened around the UK in February. Amnesty volunteers were on hand at the screenings to provide information and sign-up new members. Gael García Bernal, who stars in the film, visited Amnesty UK in January and was interviewed for UK newspaper The Observer about the film and his support for Amnesty. Find out more at amnesty.org.uk/chile 1 wire [ mar/apr 2013 ]
Rock band U2 has teamed up with the Hard Rock Café and Edun Live to produce a T-shirt supporting human rights work. 15% of the proceeds from the “U2 Signature Series 30” limited edition T-shirt go to Amnesty International. To order yours visit bit.ly/U2-t-shirt
Roma in numbers Roma action Between
10 and 12 million
Romani people live in Europe
9 out of 10
Romani people in the EU live below the poverty line.* (*Source: 2012 Fundamental Rights Agency/UNDP survey conducted in 11 EU member states).
Placement of Slovakia’s Romani children in ‘special schools’ has doubled in a generation, says the World Bank.
Activists from Amnesty Austria visited Romania in December to support a two-day action with local NGOs against the forced eviction of a Roma community in Cluj-Napoca. Seventy-six mostly Roma families were evicted from their home in Coastei Street in the city centre in December 2010. Since then, 40 families have been living in inadequate housing provided by the municipality, 10km outside the city, next to a landfill site. The remaining families are living in improvised shelters on the same site. The community has limited access to services. Take action for the community at bit.ly/cluj-roma