Italy must overhaul policies which contribute to the exploitation of migrant labourers, violating their right to work and access to justice, Amnesty has said.

The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants has called on the EU to change policies that criminalise migrants and their supporters.

The Government is to push ahead with plans for secret courts despite concerns raised by victims of state wrongdoing or negligence.

A tribunal in Hamburg has decided that the Argentine navy ship seized in Ghana, the ARA Libertad, should be released back to the South American country.