In the 18 months since the new government of Cambodia was formed, AI has noted a gradual erosion of the positive human rights legacy of the UNTAC period. Although progress has been made in some areas, AI is increasingly concerned that fundamental rights and freedoms laid down in international human...

AI is concerned for the safety of a groups of 500 landless rural workers and their families camped on the side of the road outside the Fazenda Mocambo in Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia state. On 29 October 1994 gunmen fired on the encampment, killing two and seriouly wounding six. Leaders of the group...

1. USA: Amnesty International seeks further information on “Food not Bombs” activists arrested in San Francisco, USA.

Amnesty International wrote today to District Attorney Arlo Smith in San Francisco, USA, to request further information about concerns the organization has about the alleged harassment and arrests of the members of the group “Food Not Bombs”. Since September 1993 Robert Kahn, Keith McHenry and some...

There are fears for the safety of street children in Guatemala City after a sudden new wave of attacks. According to reports, on 24 September Ruben Garcia Gonzalez and Daniel Rosales were killed and Victor Manuel Garcia was injured when they were fired on by two private policemen. The two policemen...

In the 10 years since returning to civilian rule, serious human rights violations have persisted in Brazil. Incidents such as the massacre of 111 prisoners in Sao Paulo in 1992 and the killing of seven children in the centre of Rio de Janeiro in 1993 have shocked public opinion at home and damaged...

In the first six months since the goverment of President Reina took office in January 1994, AI has received several reports of minors being subjected to arbitrary arrest, sexual abuse or ill-treatment by members of the security forces. This paper describes two such cases. Martha Maria Saire, 11, a...

This document contains fourteen cases of young people in various countries who have suffered human rights violations. They are: the torture of 9-year-old Junyonto and his parents in Indonesia; the alleged rape by police in India of a Bangladeshi girl aged 11; the detention of a Buddhist novice,...

This report describes recent incidences of ill-treatment by Danish police, including the indiscriminate firing into a crowd during a violent demonstration on 18-19 May 1993, and a pattern of ill-treatment during a 15-month anti-drugs operation in Christiania. The paper also highlights the frequent...

AI is concerned about a disturbing pattern of police ill-treatment of those in their custody. This pattern has emerged in two areas of policing: the first has been during demonstrations, particularly those which have become violent; and the second was during a 15-month police operation in 1992/1993...

Children in Colombia are frequently the victims of human rights violations. In areas of armed conflict young people have been killed, “disappeared” or been subject to harassment and torture by the military. Others have been killed when caught in the crossfire between guerilla groups and the...

1. Brazil: Amnesty International calls for protection of child witnesses in Brazilian Candelaria massacre.