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Development must not trump indigenous rights in the Americas ...
4 August 2011

Across the Americas, Indigenous Peoples are seen as standing in the way of commercial interests and their human rights are consistently violated.

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The Wire, August/September 2011. Vol. 41, issue 04
1 August 2011

1) Stubborn, Irritating, Outrageous 2) Women in Nicaragua need your voice, your action, your solidarity; 'We all have a role in the changing world' 3) Stand united ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2011

Colombia: Human rights defenders threatened
25 July 2011

José Santos Caicedo and Armando Caracas Carabalí, who are leaders of the Black Communities Process (PCN) and Aníbal Vega, the legal representative of the community ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/024/2011

Colombia: Amnesty International condemns guerrilla attack which ...
12 July 2011

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 12 July 2011. Index: AMR 23/023/2011. Colombia: Amnesty International condemns guerrilla attack ...

Public Statement       AMR 23/023/2011

Colombia: Death threat to human rights defenders
24 June 2011

Ten Bogotá-based Colombian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and 18 individuals, including human rights defenders, have received a death threat by email from ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/022/2011

Colombia: Further information: Demand protection for human rights ...
17 June 2011

On 14 June, Franklin Torres, Candelaria Barrios and Pedro Geney, members of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) in Sucre Department, northern ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/021/2011

Colombia: Death threats to human rights defenders
9 June 2011

On 7 June Julio Cesar Rosero, a lawyer representing the family of a victim of an extrajudicial execution in Valle del Cauca Department, South-Western Colombia, ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/019/2011

Colombia: Human rights defenders receive death threat
23 May 2011

Franklín Torres, Ingrid Vergara and Pedro Geney, members of the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) in Sucre Department, northern Colombia, received ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/017/2011

Colombia: Defender at risk after house break-in
18 May 2011

On 13 May, information documenting human rights abuses was stolen from the home of Danilo Rueda, a Colombian human rights defender. He is a member of the organization ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/015/2011

Colombia: Further information: Paramilitaries threaten communities
17 May 2011

Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities in the Curvaradó and Jiguamiandó River Basins in North West Colombia are being threatened and harassed by paramilitaries ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/016/2011