Indigenous leader, María Iza Quinatoa, has reportedly been the target of an increasing campaign of threats and intimidation. Amnesty International believes that ...
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Jhonny Jiménez Jiménez, President of the Servicio de Paz y Justicia ( SERPAJ), Peace and Justice Service, his ...
Trade unionist, Manuel Mesías Tatamuez Moreno (President of the Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores, (CEDOCUT), ...
Colombian human rights defender Lina María Espinoza Villegas, who has been helping communities involved in protests against oil companies operating in Ecuador's ...
A death threat was sent to Acción Ecológica on 5 July, in a text message to one of the mobile phones used by the organization. All the people who work for the ...
María Teresa Cherres Mesías, a community leader from Condor village in Orellana province, in the northern Amazon region of Ecuador, has been threatened and intimidated ...
The offices of the non-governmental organisation Acción Ecológica (Environmental Action) in the capital, Quito, were reportedly burgled on 22 May. The burglary ...
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor who was allegedly tortured in February and received death threats twice in April ...
Ecuador's political crisis deepened on 20 April, when 60 out of 62 lawmakers of the Congress voted to dismiss President Lucio Gutierrez. Vice-President Alfredo ...