Ecuador

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Threats
20 April 2006

Indigenous leader, María Iza Quinatoa, has reportedly been the target of an increasing campaign of threats and intimidation. Amnesty International believes that ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/003/2006

Ecuador: Fear for safety
9 April 2006

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Jhonny Jiménez Jiménez, President of the Servicio de Paz y Justicia ( SERPAJ), Peace and Justice Service, his ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/002/2006

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Threats
9 April 2006

Trade unionist, Manuel Mesías Tatamuez Moreno (President of the Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores, (CEDOCUT), ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/001/2006

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Death threats: Lina Maria Espinoza ...
7 September 2005

Colombian human rights defender Lina María Espinoza Villegas, who has been helping communities involved in protests against oil companies operating in Ecuador's ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/017/2005

Ecuador: Further information on: Fear for safety
11 July 2005

A death threat was sent to Acción Ecológica on 5 July, in a text message to one of the mobile phones used by the organization. All the people who work for the ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/016/2005

Ecuador: Fear for safety
10 July 2005

María Teresa Cherres Mesías, a community leader from Condor village in Orellana province, in the northern Amazon region of Ecuador, has been threatened and intimidated ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/015/2005

Ecuador: Fear for safety
31 May 2005

The offices of the non-governmental organisation Acción Ecológica (Environmental Action) in the capital, Quito, were reportedly burgled on 22 May. The burglary ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/013/2005

Ecuador: Fear for safety/death threats: Jesús Tranquilino Vélez ...
26 April 2005

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Jesús Tranquilino Vélez Loor who was allegedly tortured in February and received death threats twice in April ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/012/2005

Ecuador: Further information on fear for safety/legal concern
20 April 2005

Ecuador's political crisis deepened on 20 April, when 60 out of 62 lawmakers of the Congress voted to dismiss President Lucio Gutierrez. Vice-President Alfredo ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/011/2005

Ecuador: Respect for human rights must be the top priority of the ...
20 April 2005

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. AI Index: AMR 28/010/2005 (Public). News Service No: 104. 21 April 2005. Ecuador: Respect for human ...

Press Release       AMR 28/010/2005