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Nicaragua must investigate violent attacks against human rights ...
7 December 2009

Leonor Martínez has been subjected to violence and received death threats for her work with a civil society group.

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Nicaragua: Nine women’s rights defenders (Letter writing ...
5 December 2009

Nine women’s rights defenders are facing legal proceedings for their involvement in the case of a nine-year-old girl who obtained a legal abortion in Nicaragua ...

Document       AMR 43/014/2009

Write for rights: Take action against human rights abuses
5 December 2009

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights action takes place every year on and around International Human Rights Day on 10 December. Each year, people around the ...

Document       ACT 30/008/2009

Colombia: The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó (Letter ...
5 December 2009

Members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia have been the focus of suspicion and hostility from all parties to the armed conflict since the ...

Document       AMR 23/023/2009

Activists in Honduras tell Amnesty International of hidden human ...
4 December 2009

An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras talked to humanrights activists about the hidden crisis affecting theCentral American nation.

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USA: Further information: 50th execution in the USA this year
4 December 2009

Bobby Wayne Woods was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 3 December. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl in ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/123/2009

Mexico: Protester's family at risk after killing
3 December 2009

The family of Mariano Abarca Roblero and other environmental protesters in Chicomuselo, southern Mexico, are at risk after Mariano Abarca was shot and killed in ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/062/2009

Honduras security forces must be held accountable for human rights ...
3 December 2009

The police and military have carried out numerous human rights abuses since June, when President Manuel Zelaya was forced into exile.

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Honduras: No return to “business as usual” | Amnesty ...
3 December 2009

(Tegucigalpa) At the end of a 10-day visit to Honduras during the country’s presidential elections, Amnesty International today called for an independent ...

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Independent investigation needed into Honduras human rights abuses ...
3 December 2009

Amnesty International's delegationhas documented many cases of abuse including killings following excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests ofdemonstrators by security ...

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