Ecuador

Human Rights in REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR

Ecuador: Death threats/fear for safety, Alexis Ponce
25 July 2001

Human rights defender Alexis Ponce has received death threats. His name has previously appeared on a "death list".

Urgent Action       AMR 28/017/2001

Ecuador: Continued torture and ill-treatment of LGBT people
31 May 2001

This report details Amnesty International's concerns regarding the homophobic harassment, torture, ill-treatment and attempted extrajudicial execution by police ...

Report       AMR 28/009/2001

Ecuador: Further information on Fear for safety/Death Threats ...
30 April 2001

Organizations defending the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Ecuador continue to receive death threats.

Urgent Action       AMR 28/014/2001

Ecuador: Torture and "disappearance" of Elías Elint López and ...
8 April 2001

Amnesty International is seriously concerned at reports of the alleged involvement of National Police officers in the "disappearance" of two men, and that the case ...

Report       AMR 28/008/2001

Ecuador: Further information on Fear for safety/Death Threats ...
3 April 2001

Another organisation (Juventud Arco Iris (Rainbow Youth)) defending the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has received email ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/012/2001

Ecuador: No to "social cleansing" of people because of their ...
29 March 2001

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE. 30 March 2001-04-04. AI Index: AMR 28/011/2001. Public. New Service No. 59. Ecuador: No to “social ...

Press Release       AMR 28/011/2001

Ecuador: Fear for safety/Death Threats, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and ...
27 March 2001

A homophobic group has said that in April it will start to kill members of the human rights organisation Quitogay, and to wipe out the rest of Ecuador's lesbian ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/010/2001

Ecuador: Further information on Fear for safety/arbitrary ...
11 February 2001

Student leader José Miguel Cabuyales Alvear has been released. He was abducted on 5 February by unidentified men waring balaclavas, who threatened to kill him unless ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/007/2001

Ecuador: Further information on Fear for safety/arbitrary ...
8 February 2001

Fernando Villavicencio was released without charges in the late afternoon of 2 February. He had been arrested by the security forces on 31 January, apparently for ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/006/2001

Ecuador: Fear for safety/arbitrary detention : José Miguel ...
7 February 2001

Student leader, José Miguel Cabuyales Alvear, has been abducted from his home after taking part in recent protests and demonstrations against the government's economic ...

Urgent Action       AMR 28/005/2001