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Colombia: Land activists receive death threats
2 April 2013

A member of the Victims' Roundtable of El Carmen del Bolívar – a group of victims seeking the return of misappropriated land – in northern Colombia has received ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/015/2013

Mexico: Two men allegedly executed by Mexican army
28 March 2013

The Mexican Army killed two young men in disputed circumstances in the town of Nuevo Laredo. Relatives are seeking a full investigation into evidence that the two ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/015/2013

Mexico: Activist receives death threat: Filiberto Vicente Aquino
27 March 2013

Activist and radio presenter, Filiberto Vicente Aquino, received a death threat on 20 March 2013 after covering a press conference about the opposition to the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/013/2013

Venezuela: Venezuelan cartoonist threatened: Rayma Suprani
26 March 2013

UA: 74/13 Index: AMR 53/003/2013 Venezuela Date: 26 March 2013. URGENT ACTION. Venezuelan CARTOONIST THREATENED. Rayma Suprani, cartoonist ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/003/2013

Haiti: Displaced families face forced eviction in Haiti
22 March 2013

Hundreds of families who were left homeless after the January 2010 earthquake face imminent forced eviction from their makeshift camp in the Port-au-Prince municipality ...

Urgent Action       AMR 36/006/2013

USA: Letter to US Secretary of Defense in relation to hunger ...
22 March 2013

In this letter Amnesty International expresses deep concern at the situation faced by the detainees held in Department of Defense custody at the US naval base at ...

Open Letter       AMR 51/014/2013

Amnesty International | IACHR: American states must confirm ...
21 March 2013

It's time for states across the Americas to confirm their commitment to human rights, Amnesty International said today one day ahead of the Extraordinary General ...

Press Release      

Colombia: Amnesty International statement at the 22nd session of ...
20 March 2013

The peace talks in Colombia have raised expectations that the conflict with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) could finally come to an end, ...

Document       AMR 23/014/2013

Mexico: Further information: More threats made against migrants' ...
20 March 2013

There are new reports of threats against La 72 migrants' shelter and its director in Tenosique, southern state of Tabasco, Mexico. The lives of the shelter director ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/012/2013

Guatemala: Fears for safety of leaders in Guatemala
19 March 2013

Four Xinca indigenous leaders were kidnapped near Mataquescuintla, Jalapa department in Eastern Guatemala after participating in a public meeting. One was killed ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/003/2013