UA: 35/10 Index: MDE 12/008/2010 Issue Date: 16 February 2010

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200 families in Manshiyet Nasser, an informal settlement east of Cairo, Egypt, are in imminent danger of serious injury or death because of a high risk of rock fall. The authorities have so far failed to relocate them. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 196/09 Index: AFR 46/001/2010 Issue Date: 05 February 2010

Thousands of people in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are no longer facing eviction from their market stalls and homes. Amnesty International has recently received formal notification that the threat of forced evictions had been withdrawn. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 347/09 Index: MDE 13/132/2009 Issue Date: 22 December 2009

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Further Information on UA: 225/09 Index: AMR 19/021/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009

The families who suffered a violent forced eviction in August from the Olga Benário settlement in the south of São Paulo, have won a major victory in their long fight for housing rights. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 337/09 Index: AMR 53/007/2009 Issue Date: 15 December 2009

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The lives of Oscar Barrios' family are in danger. He and his family have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation from police officers in northern Venezuela, since 2003. Oscar Barrios was killed on October 28, 2009 and follows the killing of three other male members of the Barrios family. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 321/09 Index: AMR 41/062/2009 Issue Date: 3 December 2009

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The family of Mariano Abarca Roblero and other environmental protesters in Chicomuselo, southern Mexico, are at risk after Mariano Abarca was shot and killed in front of his home. Before his killing, he and members of his family are believed to have been repeatedly threatened. [ Lire la suite » ]

ASA 23/012/2009 - Further Information on 99/09 (ASA 23/006/2009, 9 April 2009) and follow-up (ASA 23/011/2009, 11 June 2009) [ Lire la suite » ]

EUR 30/004/2009 - Further information on UA 73/09 (AI Index: EUR 30/002/2009, 13 March 2009)

Milan authorities forcibly evicted a community of about 150 Roma people living under an overpass in the north of the city early in the morning of 31 March. According to local newspapers, 70 out of about 150 Roma people were dispersed without being given alternative accommodation. Some families had been already rehoused in temporary shelters provided by NGOs. One family accepted temporary shelter in the city’s dormitory. [ Lire la suite » ]

AMR 19/002/2009 15 January 2009 - Further Information on UA 306/08 (AMR 19/015/2008, 5 November 2008)

After receiving a series of threats, Katia Camargo and her two children entered a witness protection programme on 5 January. They are no longer believed to be in grave danger.

Katia Camargo had been threatened by people linked to the killers of her husband, investigative journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon. The journalist, who had reported on official corruption, was murdered in May 2007. [ Lire la suite » ]

ASA 20/026/2008 - Further information on UA 236/08 (ASA 20/018/2008, 27 August 2008)

Violence against the Christian minority in Kandhamal district, Orissa, subsided during October etc, and the district is now relatively calm. Amnesty International is continuing to monitor the situation, and will take further action as necessary. [ Lire la suite » ]