Further information on UA: 34/11 Index: ASA 25/013/2011 Issue Date: 04 October 2011

Migrants Trade Union’s (MTU) President, Michel Catuira, had his appeal against attempts by Korean authorities to deport him upheld on 15 September. Seoul’s Administrative Court ruled that the Korea Immigration Service’s (KIS) efforts to deport him were in violation of South Korean and international human rights law. The KIS appealed this decision on 30 September and continue to deny Michel Catuira a visa. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA 34/11 Index: ASA 25/003/2011 South Korea

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On 2 March the Seoul 12th Administrative Court issued a temporary injunction against the forcible deportation of Michel Catuira, President of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants’ Trade Union (MTU) in South Korea. However, the injunction will apply only until MTU’s appeal case against the cancellation of his visa status has been decided. Therefore, he remains at risk of deportation. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 237/10 Index: AMR 23/034/2010 Issue Date: 12 November 2010

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Human rights defenders from several NGOs in south-western Colombia, including organizations of Afro-descendants and Indigenous People, as well as trade unions, have received death threats. Their lives and their colleagues' lives are in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 187/10 Index: AMR 41/061/2010 Issue Date: 27 August 2010

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Armed men have assaulted and threatened independent trade unionists Cándido Corona Barruecos and Virgilio Meléndez Montiel at the factory where they work, in the central Mexican state of Puebla. Members of a non-governmental labour rights organization supporting the trade unionists have received death threats. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 329/09 Index: AMR 34/014/2009

Trade unionist Jorge Chen Alvarez, an official in the National Health Workers' Union, has received a death threat believed to be connected to his work improving health care services for pregnant women and girls. [ Lire la suite » ]