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Esther Landetta Chica is a leading member of the community-based Assembly for the Defence of Our Rivers Gala, Chico, Tenguel and River Siete. She has been targeted for a series of threats and intimidation because of her crucial role in voicing communities’ concerns about possible negative...

Large-scale oil and gas development has drastically undermined the ability of the Lubicon Cree to maintain their traditional economy and live on the land. The Lubicon are seeking a reserve on a portion of their traditional land, funds to set up viable community infrastructure, recognition of their...

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Adán Alberto Pacheco Rodríguez, a former leader of the electricity workers’ union, was shot dead on 2 May 2005 by two gunmen. Two days later a written death threat against trade unionists was received from a paramilitary group. Trade unionists in Colombia are at grave risk of human rights abuses....

Dr Mohamed Jalal Ahmed Hashim was released on 25 August

Amnesty International has prepared the present briefing in order to highlight human rights concerns associated with La Parota hydroelectric dam. It focuses in particular on the rights of affected communities to information, to participation in decisions on development projects which affect the...

Insufficient consultation of affected communities and an atmosphere of mounting tension, violence and intimidation have characterized government steps to build a hydroelectric dam, La Parota, in Guerrero State, Mexico. The Federal Commission of Electricity (CFE) says that only 2,981 people would be...

More than 2,000 trade unionists have been killed and 138 have been victims of enforced disappearance in Colombia over the last two decades. In more than 90 per cent of cases, those responsible have not been brought to justice. Amnesty International considers that the human rights situation facing...

In October 2006, a coalition of human rights organisations including Amnesty International, the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Hakijammi and the Kenya Land Alliance visited the Mau Forest Complex to investigate the extent of forced evictions. The Kenya National Commission on Human...

This document considers the question of whether Colombia is undergoing an irreversible renaissance in which there is relative peace, rapidly decreasing levels of violence, genuine demobilization of tens of thousands of illegal combatants and justice for victims of human rights violations. Or...

Environmental activist Flaviano Bianchini, who received a series of threatening phone calls earlier this year, has returned to Italy, and is no longer in danger.