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Ecuador: torture of Indian leader

Jose Maria Cabascango, 28-year-old human rights secretary of the Confederacion de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador (CONAIE), Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, was detained with other leaders of Indian communities on 11 June 1991 in Cajas, Imbabura provice. The detained...
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories Armed Conflict

Israel and the Occupied Territories: The military justice system in the Occupied Territories: detention, interrogation and trial procedures

Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns about the operations of the Israeli military courts in the Occupied Territories in recent years are documented in this report: more than 30,000 Palestinians have been tried by these courts since the beginning of the intifada in 1987. Related concerns include...
International Organizations

Protecting human rights: International procedures and how to use them (a series of Amnesty International papers): 2. The Organization of African Unity and human rights

This paper replaces a paper of the same title issued in May 1987 (IOR 03/04/87). It focuses on the African Charter for Human and People’s Rights, adopted by the Organization for African Unity (OAU), which entered into force in 1986. Distinctive features of the African Charter are discussed, as are...