This month we bring you news from Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru. Highlights are: Colombia: More from Amnesty on the need for police reform, opening with a song and dance video to remind us of the violence suffered by demonstrators during the General Strike. Colombia: The government uses a mixture of […]
A new Urgent Action for Argentina has just been published, and an old one has just been extended. Neither are yet on the AIUK website, put please follow the links below to take action. A new bill, which introduces changes in the Argentine pension system, is now being discussed in the Senate. If approved, it […]
Here is a link to a new Urgent Action calling for protection for child climate activists in Ecuador. PROTECTION WITHOUT CONDITIONS NEEDED FOR CHILD CLIMATE ACTIVISTS (amnesty.org.uk) Also, in case you missed it, there was another Ecuador Urgent Action in our last South America newsletter relating to detainees in at least five of the major […]
This month we bring you news from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, an Urgent Action on Ecuador and summaries of Amnesty’s annual reports on all the countries that we cover. Highlights are: Colombia – A short Amnesty film showing the devastating impact of a “less than lethal” weapon on Leidy Cadena in the April 2021 […]
The IS office in Mexico City has reopened the IAR casefile on the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado. This coincides with the ongoing threats and killings of its members, the latest being a woman and a boy believed by the PCSJA to have been killed by former paramilitaries (the Gaitanistas Self-Defence Forces of […]