Amnesty International: The Human Rights Situation in Colombia, 16 February 2010
Amnesty International written statement to the thirteenth session of the UN Human Rights Council (1-26 March 2010)
Amnesty International expresses its continued appreciation of the work of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia to improve respect for human rights and international humanitarian law in the country. Amnesty International also supports the renewal of the Office’s mandate when its current mandate expires at the end of October 2010.
Amnesty International Report on Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
Download the 2010 Amnesty Report on Human Rights Defenders in Mexico
The Mexican authorities are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from killings and life-threatening harassment and attacks, Amnesty International warned in a new report presented in the Ciudad de Mexico, on 21 January 2010.
Letter from the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center
Impunity Issue in the State of Guerrero
Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero,8th of February 2010
PBI Mexico : New organisation accompanied in Oaxaca: Committee 25 November
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PBI Mexico: Release of Juan Manual, Oaxaca
18 February 2010.
A Mexican Federal Court today ordered the release of Juan Manuel Martinez due to lack of evidence. He had been detained since 2008 for the murder of US video journalist Brad Will who was shot when filming a confrontation between protesters and local police during the social conflict in Oaxaca in 2006.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: The struggle for dignity - Human rights abuses against indigenous peoples in Colombia, February 2010
INTRODUCTION
The impact of Colombia’s long-running internal armed conflict on Indigenous
Peoples has been profound and destructive. They have been killed, harassed and driven from their lands by all the parties to the conflict. Despite their determined refusal to be drawn into the hostilities, the threats facing Indigenous Peoples are intensifying.
PBI International: Defamations in Colombian and International Media Threaten Human Rights Defenders
Bogota, 18 January, 2010 - A recent string of newspaper articles in the international and Colombian national media attacking Peace Brigades International (PBI) and the organisations we accompany in Colombia is cause for great concern.
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Colombian justice vs. human rights
Just weeks ago, Colombian human rights activist Principe Gabriel Gonzalez Arango was making the rounds in Washington -- meeting with senior State Department officials, testifying before Congress -- and being feted in New York for his work on behalf of political prisoners and the steep personal price he has paid for his advocacy. Now he is facing seven years in prison.