Indigenous communities in Ecuador are at risk from excessive use of force following a recent decree allowing military intervention in the area where they live. ...
Ecuadorian land activist Milton Yulán Morán, his family and colleagues have come under renewed threat. On 23 August staff arrived at work to find their office had ...
The lives of Rita Julia Morán and other family members of Ecuadorian land activist Milton Yulán Morán are at risk. On 7 August 2011, three vehicles carrying armed ...
In the Americas laws there is an entrenched discriminatory attitude against Indigenous peoples. On the International Day of the World's Indigenous People, Amnesty ...
Ecuadorian land activist, Milton Yulan, is at serious risk after his colleague Marlon Lozano was shot in the head on 20 July and died on the following day. It is ...
In this case the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the Commission) has brought proceedings based on actions and omissions that were detrimental to the ...
Other countries urged to follow suit to ensure justice for all whose rights are violated and who are denied an effective remedy in their own countries.
A government official has threatened to kill human rights defenders Joel Vicente Zhunio Samaniego and Wilmar Fernando Mejia Reinoso. Human rights defender Etelvina ...