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Brazil: Further information on Fear for safety
19 June 2006

Lawyer Maria Aparecida Denadai is finally receiving adequate protection from the Federal Police, and is no longer in immediate danger.

Urgent Action       AMR 19/024/2006

World Cup statistics (WEB TEXT)
8 June 2006

With the football World Cup starting this week, we have a different set of statistics: violence against women is being played out in battlefields, bedrooms and ...

Report       ACT 77/010/2006

Brazil: Fear of persecution: Conceição Paganele (f), human ...
15 May 2006

Police have begun investigations into a number of apparently politically motivated allegations against Conceição Paganele, who runs a mothers' organisation that ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/022/2006

Brazil: Killers of law-enforcement officers must be brought to ...
14 May 2006

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: AMR 19/023/2006 (Public). News Service No: 123. 15 May 2006. Brazil: Killers of law ...

Press Release       AMR 19/023/2006

Dead on Time - arms transportation, brokering and the threat to ...
9 May 2006

This document is the executive summary of a report which examines the role of private contractors in arms transfer logistics, brokering and transport. The report ...

Report       ACT 30/007/2006

Dead on Time - arms transportation, brokering and the threat to ...
9 May 2006

This report which examines the role of private contractors in arms transfer logistics, brokering and transport. The report shows how, partly as a consequence of ...

Report       ACT 30/008/2006

Letter from AI members to DaimlerChrysler AG regarding AI's ...
2 May 2006

This members' letter thanks DaimlerChrysler for its ongoing dialogue with Amnesty International on the issue of the police van, known as the caveirão. It acknowledges ...

Report       AMR 19/015/2006

Brazil: Further information on fear for safety/ forced eviction ...
1 May 2006

Members of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous community are no longer in danger of forced eviction as they voluntarily left the seven farms they were occupying in the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/020/2006

Human Rights Education Newsletter: Issue 15, May 2006
30 April 2006

1.) From the favela to the world - the success of AfroReggae!; 2.) AfroReggae join young people in the UK to spread the 'Control Arms' message; 3.) AI Morocco helps ...

Report       POL 32/002/2006

2006 Elections to the Human Rights Council: Background information ...
30 April 2006

In order to assist Member States in assessing the contribution and commitment of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights, this document contains ...

Report       IOR 41/006/2006