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 […]
This month we bring you news from Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Bolivia. Highlights are: Colombia – A petition demanding that the Colombian authorities protect human rights defenders. Brazil – 2 politicians and an ex-police chief have been arrested over the murder of Marielle Franco Venezuela – Presidential Elections have been brought forward to 28 July, with leading opposition leaders barred from […]
We have another new Urgent Action :- Nahuel Morandini, Roque Villegas and Lucía González are being prosecuted for expressing ironic opinions about a public figure on social media (the wife of the former governor of the province of Jujuy) . Morandini and Villegas posted on X and Facebook; they were immediately arrested and initially held in prison for 54 days. […]
Here is a link to a new Urgent Action about 14-year-old climate activist Leonela Moncayo who has reported that on 26 February there was an explosion outside her home caused by an improvised explosive device. Please call on the Attorney General to investigate what happened, to refrain from stigmatising child activists and to protect them so […]