UA: 39/12 Index: AMR 44/001/2012 Issue Date: 7 February 2012

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Two protestors were killed and reportedly over 40 people injured when police dispersed a protest by Indigenous Peoples in Panama on 5 February. Protests are likely to continue across the country and there are fears that excessive force may be used by State security forces. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 294/11 Index: AMR 19/003/2012 Issue Date: 1 February 2012

The Laranjeira Ñanderu indigenous community, including over 80 children and 30 elderly people, is at risk of eviction from an area they claim as ancestral lands in Brazil. If evicted, the community will be forced to live on a small plot of land near a highway, without adequate access to water, shade or area to plant crops. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 25/12 Index: AMR 41/007/2012 Issue Date: 25 January 2012

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A human rights defender of the Na Savi Indigenous people (known in Spanish as Mixteco), has been arrested by state judicial police in south-western Mexico. He is in danger of an unfair trial. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 340/11 Index: AMR 41/002/2012 Issue Date: 11 January 2012

Seventy-one members of a Guatemalan community who had sought refuge in Tabasco state, Mexico, have been detained by Mexican authorities and taken to a migrant detention centre. Over 100 members of the community remain in Tabasco state. Those detained include children, and some families have apparently been divided. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 163/11 Index: AMR 13/003/2011 Issue Date: 19 August 2011

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An Argentinean court has ordered that any attempts to evict the Quilmes Indigenous community of Colalao del Valle must be suspended. This decision protects four indigenous families from imminent forced eviction from their homes in the northern Argentinean province of Tucumán. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 200/10 AMR 45/005/2010 Issue Date: 10 September 2010

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On 5 September, two leaders of the Kelyenmagategma Indigenous community in Paraguay received death threats while accompanying an international delegation that was investigating their claim to their ancestral land. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA: 110/10 Index: AMR 41/068/2010 Issue Date: 10 September 2010

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On 7 September, armed men attacked two Indigenous women from the San Juan Copala town in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. One was raped and the other one was shot at. After reporting the attack to the authorities, they and their families could be at risk of reprisals. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 172/10 Index: ASA 20/022/2010 Issue Date: 12 August 2010

Lado Sikaka, a leader of the Dongria Kondh Indigenous communities in India, was released on 12 August, two days after being abducted. Sana Sikaka, another leader who was abducted at the same time, was released on 11 August. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA: 123/10 Index: AMR 46/009/2010

Exiled Indigenous leader, Segundo Alberto Pizango Chota, was released from detention on 27 May. He had been detained on 26 May at Lima airport, Peru, immediately after he returned from exile in Nicaragua.

Alberto Pizango, leader of AIDESEP (Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana) had been in exile in Nicaragua since mid-June 2009. He landed at Lima airport on a flight from Nicaragua on 26 May. Upon his arrival he was immediately detained by police, but was released yesterday (27 May). [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 293/09 Index: AMR 23/031/2009 Issue Date: 10 December 2009

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Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and Indigenous community leaders, all received the same threatening SMS (text) message simultaneously on 4 December. Those threatened have been opposing further development of a hydroelectric project in the area where they live and work. Their lives may be at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]