Attached and linked below is an Urgent Action regarding serious attacks on members of the Inter-Church Commission for Justice and Peace while engaging in human rights defence activities in Southwest Colombia. Among other events, the reports include unknown people pointing firearms at their vehicle and chasing them. The recurrence of such events points at the need for […]
Below is a link to an Urgent Action about serious risks to the life, safety, and security of the peasant communities of El Porvenir and Matarratón, in Puerto Gaitán, Meta, Colombia. On 18 November, the presidents of the communal associations of El Porvenir and Matarratón received WhatsApp messages from the same telephone number requesting meetings and information […]
A new Urgent Action for Argentina has been published. It’s not yet on the AIUK website, so please follow this link to take action:- https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr13/9164/2025/en/ This is a second action regarding the situation of Older people in Argentina. The moratorium on social security contributions will expire today, March 23rd. The government announced that it will not seek to extend this deadline given […]
The International Secretariat has issued a second Urgent Action relating to the situation in the Catatumbo region of Colombia. This one focuses on the stigmatisation by President Petro of local civil society organisations with the consequent risk to their safety. The action requested this time is to write to the President himself. The action has […]
Here is a link to a new Urgent Action about 23 men who remain missing in Ecuador following military operations carried out in 2024. Amnesty is calling on the Public Prosecutor’s Office to search for the victims and to investigate these events as possible cases of enforced disappearances. The action has not yet appeared on […]