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16 November 2009

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Brazil: Indigenous teacher missing in Brazil
13 November 2009

Male teacher Rolindo Vera, a member of the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous group, went missing on 30 October after a violent eviction carried out by armed men in Mato ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/020/2009

Egypt: Demand Dignity: Buried alive: Trapped by poverty and ...
12 November 2009

On 6 September 2008, over 100 residents of Ezbet Bekhit informal settlement were killed by a rockslide. One year on, the difficulties of finding affordable housing ...

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Italy: Roma community forcibly evicted
11 November 2009

City authorities in the Italian capital, Rome, have forcibly evicted a community of about 400 Roma people. The majority of these homeless people, numbering some ...

Urgent Action       EUR 30/013/2009

Paraguay: Further information: Indigenous communities face ...
9 November 2009

Five Indigenous communities in Itakyry district, eastern Paraguay, are no longer facing imminent forced eviction from their ancestral lands. However, the Brazilian ...

Urgent Action       AMR 45/049/2009

Indonesia: Open letter to the House of People's Representatives on ...
9 November 2009

In this open letter Amnesty international urges the Indonesian authorities to give the upmost priority to the review and passing of a new Criminal Code respectful ...

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Amnesty International welcomes decision to not transfer Côte d' ...
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Nicaragua's Constitutional Court must decide on legality of new ...
6 November 2009

Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan SupremeCourt continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminallaws on abortion which ...

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