Scores of demonstrators from Indigenous communities in the Amazon were detained and at least 169 injured after demonstrators were forcibly dispersed in the town ...
On 8 May, 8 men of the Tzeltal indigenous community of San Sebastian Bachajón, Chiapas state, were committed for trial. Since then charges against one of the men ...
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Privatization and economic globalization have given companies unprecedented access to new territories, and expanded their reach across national borders. However ...
Peru remains one of the countries with the highest maternal mortality ratios in Latin America. Maternal mortality could be greatly reduced if the barriers that ...
In December 1984 thousands of tonnes of deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, central India. Around half a million people were ...
In this digest Amnesty International presents an overview of the aims of the campaign. To protect the rights of those who live in slums, to end the needless deaths ...
More than half a million women die needlessly each year from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth – one every minute. Many others suffer disabling ...