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Amnesty International  Report 2013


The 2013 Annual Report on
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Colombia: End impunity for sexual violence in Colombia's conflict
4 October 2012

Women and girls have been targeted for sexual violence by members of all the warring parties in Colombia's long-running armed conflict. For decades, these crimes ...

Postcard       AMR 23/034/2012

Colombian defenders at risk after threats
17 September 2012

A member of the Association for Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (ASFADDES), Luz Elsia Almanza Suárez, was threatened by a paramilitary group on 6 September ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/035/2012

Enforced Disappearances in the Americas are a crime of the present ...
29 August 2012

In the Americas, enforced disappearances are not just an issue of the past, with much still to be done for justice to be delivered to the victims and their relatives ...

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Colombia: Conviction for conflict-related rape and murders 'a rare ...
28 August 2012

A civilian court's conviction of a Colombian junior army officer for the murder and rape of a girl is a rare victory.

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Americas: Right to consultation and consent of Indigenous peoples ...
27 August 2012

This statement, to the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council, encapsulates one of the main challenges Indigenous peoples face when their ancestral territories ...

Document       AMR 01/007/2012

Colombian human rights activists threatened
24 August 2012

LGBTI activists, trade unionists, victims associations and human rights defenders in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, have received death threats from paramilitaries ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/030/2012

Colombia: Indigenous leader killed amid ongoing fighting in Cauca ...
15 August 2012

The Colombian authorities must do more to protect civilians increasingly caught up in the country's ongoing armed conflict.

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Colombia: Trade unionists' lives in danger in Colombia
9 August 2012

Trade unionists Oscar Arturo Orozco and Wilson Jaramillo's lives are in danger after shots were fired at the car they were travelling in on 4 August in Caldas Department ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/029/2012

Os governos devem parar de impor projetos de infraestrutura nos ...
8 August 2012

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC DOCUMENT. 8 August 2012. Index: AMR 01/005/2012. Governments must stop imposing development projects on ...

Document       AMR 01/005/2012

Americas: Governments must stop imposing development projects on ...
8 August 2012

Governments across the Americas continue to discriminate against Indigenous peoples by denying their right to have a say on decisions which may have devastating ...

Document       AMR 01/005/2012