Amnesty

Women in Greek migrant camps are too scared to leave their tents at night or use communal showers, and many pregnant women have to sleep on the floor in unsanitary conditions, Amnesty International said on Friday.

More than half of refugees and migrants arriving in Greece are women and children, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.

Amnesty International has called for a transparent and thorough investigation into the death last month of a 33-year-old LGBQT activist and the stance of police during the incident.

Zak Kostopoulos died after being assaulted and repeatedly kicked in the head outside a jewelry store in central Athens in what many have described as a homophobic attack.

The Moldova director of the rights organisation Amnesty International, AIM, Cristina Pereteatcu, has told BIRN that they believe 48 Turkish residents in Moldova are under surveillance by the Moldovan authorities - and could share the same fate as seven Turkish teachers recently expelled from the country. 

Amnesty International said on Friday that it has obtained a video of Cameroonian soldiers, some armed with Serbian guns, burning structures which are likely to be homes and then killing 12 people in the village of Achigaya in the far north of the country.

Moldova lawmakers on Friday, the last day before the summer recess, voted to reschedule the next parliamentary elections to February 24, 2019. Initially, the election should have taken place by the end of November.

The decision comes after the majority in parliament voted no less than 50 draft bills in just two days - Thursday and Friday.

Kosovo's Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused Serbia of selling - or even giving away - weapons to countries, to dissuade them from recognising its independence.

Amnesty International told BIRN that Cameroon has used Serbian-made weapons in a pattern of "systematic violations" of human rights, and has called on Serbia to suspend arms export to the African state.

Amnesty International has given Greece a scathing review in regards to its human rights record in 2017, and particularly over the country's treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants.

Amnesty International's annual report, published on Thursday, shone a light on human rights violations in all Balkan countries and pointed especially to a lack of will to deal with war crimes.

The report presented the state of human rights during 2017 in 159 countries and territories.

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution extending the mandate of the only official mission investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria, reported BBC.

The Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) was set up in 2015 to identify perpetrators of chemical attacks.

It is due to report later this week on a deadly nerve agent attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in April.