AI Index AMR 01/008/2001 - News Service Nr. 136. Embargoed for : 08/09/2001 00:01 GMT. Americas: Indigenous people at high risk of human rights violations. ...
Silvano Castro, the head (cacique) of an indigenous community who has previously been harassed, has been beaten by soldiers and has received death threats.
Pemón indigenous people in San Rafael de Kamoirán, including Juan Ramón Lezama and Silviano Castro, who are protesting against the construction of an electricity ...
Pemón indigenous people protesting against the construction of an electricity supply network in Venezuela's Gran Sabana region have reportedly received death threats ...
Amnesty International has learnt that members of the transgendered community in Valencia, Carabobo State, Venezuela, continues to be harassed and jailed in conditions ...
On 29 July 2000, José Luis Nieves, a transgendered person known as Dayana, was killed in the city of Valencia, Carabobo State, in circumstances that suggest she ...
On 29 December 1999 a new Constitution came into force in Venezuela which constitutes an important and significant step forward in terms of human rights. In this ...
Police have reportedly threatened to kill Donis Robert Ramírez Pirona, after he saw them shoot Geralt Nazareht García. Another witness, Guillermina del Carmen ...
Police officers have threatened 16-year-old Alí Eduardo Sojo Díaz with death. He, his parents Flor Díaz Rangel and Freddy Sojo, and his aunt, Yolima Díaz Rangel ...
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Oscar José ROMERO BLANCO, Marco Antonio MONASTERIO PEREZ, José Francisco RIVAS FERNANDEZ and Roberto Javier ...