http://www.amnesty.org/en/adv_search/feed/library Download Documents from Amnesty International Library Search Results en http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/indigenous-teacher-missing-brazil-after-violence-over-ancestral-lands-20091113 Brazilian and Paraguayan authorities must redouble their efforts tofind an indigenous teacher who has been missing since 30 October. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/020/2009/en Male teacher Rolindo Vera, a member of the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous group, went missing on 30 October after a violent eviction carried out by armed men in Mato Groso do Sul state near Brazil's border with Paraguay. Another male teacher, Genivaldo Vera, also went missing during the eviction. His body was lat Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/019/2009/en Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/018/2009/en Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/017/2009/en Around ten armed men attacked the Guarani Kaiowa Apyka´y community near Dourados, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Shots were fired indiscriminately at the community's encampment, a shack was set alight and members of the community were physically and verbally threatened. The Indigenous group, who have b Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/016/2009/en Two days after being evicted from their ancestral lands the Laranjeira Ñanderu community face further hardships after farmers burnt down their houses and destroyed the belongings that they had intended to collect at a later date. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/015/2009/en About 130 Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous People in southwestern Brazil are in imminent danger of eviction from their ancestral lands. They will have little option but to live beside a road, with no access to water or land to plant food on. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/over-500-families-sao-paulo-homeless-forced-evictions-20090828 Following a large-scale police operation, the families are now sleeping under plastic sheeting on land opposite the site of theeviction. They are without food or blankets in cold, wet conditions. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/014/2009/en 800 families were forcibly evicted from private land in the south of the city of São Paulo on 24 August; more than 500 families, including the elderly and babies as young as 1 month old, have only plastic sheeting to sleep under. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/plan-condor-extradition-colonel-cordero-reaffirms-importance-internation The decision of Brazil’s Supreme Court to extradite the Uruguayan colonel Manuel Cordero to Argentina offers an important opportunity to uncover the crimes committed under Plan Condor, Amnesty International said today. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International