Americas

Indigenous teacher missing in Brazil after violence over ancestral ...
13 November 2009

Brazilian and Paraguayan authorities must redouble their efforts tofind an indigenous teacher who has been missing since 30 October.

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Brazil: Indigenous teacher missing in Brazil
13 November 2009

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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/020/2009

USA: Five more Guantánamo detainees to be tried in federal court
13 November 2009

The US administration’s announcement that it will transfer five detainees from Guantánamo to the US mainland to face trial in federal court, a decision that is ...

Document       AMR 51/116/2009

USA: Further information: John Muhammad executed in Virginia
11 November 2009

John Allen Muhammad was executed in Virginia on the evening of 10 November. He had been convicted in 2003 of capital murder in relation to a series of shootings ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/115/2009

Paraguay indigenous community threatened by illegal eviction and ...
10 November 2009

Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxicpesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resistedbeing forcibly evicted from their ...

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Paraguay: Further information: Indigenous communities face ...
9 November 2009

Five Indigenous communities in Itakyry district, eastern Paraguay, are no longer facing imminent forced eviction from their ancestral lands. However, the Brazilian ...

Urgent Action       AMR 45/049/2009

Guyana: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Eighth ...
9 November 2009

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...

Report       AMR 35/001/2009

Haiti: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Eighth ...
9 November 2009

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...

Report       AMR 36/005/2009

Spain: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Eighth ...
9 November 2009

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...

Report       EUR 41/013/2009

Colombia: Colombian human rights defender at risk
9 November 2009

Female human rights defender Ingrid Vergara has received death threats and her daughter, 14-year-old Cendy Torres Vergara, has been followed by unknown individuals ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/027/2009