Dear Friends This month we bring you news from Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru. Highlights are: Regional: Amnesty has called on seven South American Presidents to strengthen action to reduce the risk of wildfires after recent record fires had a devasting impact on indigenous territories Colombia: We have an Urgent Action calling […]
Dear Friends, This month we bring you news from Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, and Argentina. Highlights are: Colombia: The UN’s Working Group on Business and Human Rights has found that ‘Colombia suffers from long-standing structural problems that have led to serious human rights violations’ Brazil: Amnesty International has launched a petition to urge […]
Dear Friends, This month we bring you news from Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil. Highlights are: Colombia and others: Amnesty has a new petition directed at governments to support a Torture-free Trade treaty. Argentina: An Urgent Action demands that charges against 33 people opposed the controversial ‘ley de bases’ be dropped. […]
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 […]
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 […]