PBI México : Interview: Valentina Cantú Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
On 16 February 2002, Valentina Rosendo Cantú, then aged 17, was victim of sexual assault, torture and deprivation of liberty, allegedly committed by Mexican soldiers. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accepted the case. PBI has provided accompaniment to Valentina Rosendo Cantú and her daughter as a result of the attacks and threats the two have suffered.
Large-scale development projects, militarization and displacement in Colombia
Ana Manuela Ochoa, a lawyer with the National Indigenous Organisation of Colombia (ONIC), speaks about the problem of forced displacement and how it affects indigenous people. "Large-scale development projects bring militarisation, which forces us to abandon our lands," she explains.
IACHR alarmed over threats to Indigenous leaders in Guerrero, Mexico
Washington, March 18, 2010
Amnesty: Activist and Lawyer Threatened, Oaxaca
Urgent Action
Amnesty Inernational
March 10th 2010
Oaxacan political activist Juan Manuel Martínez and his lawyer, Alba Cruz, have been threatened. Juan Manuel Martínez, who was recently released from prison, is in danger of being arrested and charged a second time with the same crime on the basis of the same evidence.