This month we bring you news from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Suriname, and Venezuela. Highlights are: Amnesty has raised an alarm about the proliferation of legal initiatives to curtail the work of civil society organisations in Latin America and which seriously threaten the efforts of these organisations to promote and defend human rights in the […]
A new Urgent Action for Argentina has been published. It’s not yet on the AIUK website, so please follow the link below to take action. It’s currently an online only action. Since the new government took office in Argentina in December 2023, large-scale demonstrations have erupted protesting against fiscal cuts and the undermining of human rights. Against this backdrop, […]
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 […]