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 […]

Here is a link to an Urgent Action with a tight deadline! It is the second update of a UA aimed at stopping the enactment of a bill that endangers work for human rights in Paraguay by seeking to constrain the activities of civil society organisations. The first update sought, unsuccessfully, to stop the bill […]

I attach an updated Urgent Action (UA) requesting further action following the Paraguayan Congress’s approval on 9 October of the so-called Ley Garrote that endangers the human rights work of civil society organisations in Paraguay.  The original UA, featured in our August newsletter, called on the Chamber of Deputies to reject the bill.  The updated […]