Guadalupe de Heredia, Alejandro Ponce Villacis, Julio Marcelo Prieto Mendez, and others
02/08/2006
Re: Guadalupe de Heredia, Alejandro Ponce Villacis, Julio Marcelo Prieto Mendez, and others, members of the legal team representing indigenous communities in legal action against Chevron Texaco To: Dr. Felipe Vega de la Cuadra (Minister) From: Isabel Stramwasser Date: 2006-08-02 Lawyers’ … [Read more...]
Colombia: MEMBERS OF CODHES, COMPROMISO and the Colectivo de Abogados “Alvear Restrepo”
29/05/2006
Paramilitaries have sent a death threat by email to a human rights organization based in the city of Bucaramanga, in the department of Santander. Amnesty International believes its staff are in danger. The email was sent on May 17th, 2006 to the Corporación “COMPROMISO”, which works to promote … [Read more...]
Mexico: Ernesto Ledesma Arronte – Human rights defender
31/03/2006
Ernesto Ledesma Arronte, director and founder member of human rights organization Centro de Análisis Político e Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas (CAPISE – Centre for Political Analysis and Social and Economic Research) in the state of Chiapas, is reportedly being intimidated because of his … [Read more...]
Ecuador: Accion Ecologica
02/07/2005
Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada has expressed grave concern for the safety of the staff of Accion Ecologica (Environmental Action), a well-known Ecuadorian environmental NGO whose offices in the capital, Quito, were reportedly burgled on 22 May 2005. Accion Ecologica is known internationally for its … [Read more...]
Honduras: FELICIANO PINEDA – Lenca Indigenous Community Leader, Mr. Pineda’s wife, and other Indigenous Community Leaders in Gracias Municipality, Lempira Department
22/06/2005
On 5 June 2005, indigenous community leader Feliciano Pineda was attacked and seriously injured by four men wielding machetes who are believed to be linked to a local powerful landowning family. The attackers also threatened to kill Mr. Pineda’s wife. Mr. Pineda was taken to hospital, but … [Read more...]
Guatemala: MYRNA MACK CASE
30/04/2005
ABOUT THE MYRNA MACK CASE Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, a Guatemalan anthropologist investigating military atrocities in rural indigenous communities, was stabbed to death 27 times outside her office on September 11, 1990. According to Amnesty International, her murder occurred after the … [Read more...]
Ecuador: MARLON SANTI – President of the Sarayaku Association
11/01/2005
MARLON SANTI – President of the Sarayaku Association, Candidate for the Presidency of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador On December 21, 2004, Marlon Santi, President of the Sarayaku Association and a candidate for the presidency of the Confederation of Indigenous … [Read more...]
Ecuador: Pablo Xavier Ortiz-Academic and Adviser of Amazanga Institute Members of the Fundación Pachamama
08/04/2004
The human rights organization Fundación Pachamama received a telephone bomb threat on 6 April. This is the latest in a series of acts of intimidation and threatening phone calls they and the Instituto Amazanga have suffered since February this year. Both organizations have supported the Sarayaku … [Read more...]
Ecuador: Jose Serrano Salgado and other staff at CDES, Economic and Social Rights Centre-Human Rights Organization
03/04/2004
José Serrano Salgado, a member of the Ecuadorian non-governmental organization Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales (CDES), Economic and Social Rights Centre, was reportedly threatened with death on 25 April. José Serrano Salgado was travelling in his car on the North-South Road (Vía Norte-Sur), … [Read more...]
Mexico: SAMUEL ALFONSO CASTELLANOS PIÑÓN – Lawyer; BEATRIZ CASAS ARELLANES – Lawyer
26/12/2003
Samuel Alfonso Castellanos Piñón and Beatriz Casas Arellanes are lawyers working with the Oaxaca regional office of Acción de los Cristianos para la Abolición de la Tortura, (ACAT), Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture. In October 2002 the two lawyers officially took over the defence of … [Read more...]
