South America Newsletter August 2024

August 6, 2024

Dear Friends, This month we bring you news from Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil. Highlights are: Colombia and others: Amnesty has a new petition directed at governments to support a Torture-free Trade treaty. Argentina: An Urgent Action demands that charges against 33 people opposed the controversial ‘ley de bases’ be dropped. […]

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South America Newsletter July 2024

July 8, 2024

This month we bring you news from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Suriname, and Venezuela.  Highlights are:  Amnesty has raised an alarm about the proliferation of legal initiatives to curtail the work of civil society organisations in Latin America and which seriously threaten the efforts of these organisations to promote and defend human rights in the […]

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Group Newsletter July 2024

July 2, 2024

Welcome to the latest newsletter. Our next meeting  is on Thursday 4th July 2024, 7.30pm – 9.00pm at Moordown Community Centre. We will catch up on campaigns, letter writing, and discuss new ideas about campaigning. We don’t meet in August. Future Events After lasts years success, we have now booked for this years Jamnesty on Saturday 7th September at Chaplin’s Bar Last […]

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AIUK Human Rights Manifesto

July 1, 2024

From AIUK:-  “The UK is set to head to the polls for the first general election since 2019 and much has happened since then. At home, we have seen a huge rollback in human rights protections with our rights being chipped away, often in contradiction to the UK’s obligations under international law. A fundamental change […]

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South America Newsletter June 2024

June 10, 2024

This month we bring you news from Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Peru. Highlights are: Colombia: More from Amnesty on the need for police reform, opening with a song and dance video to remind us of the violence suffered by demonstrators during the General Strike. Colombia: The government uses a mixture of […]

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Europe Newsletter May 2024

June 1, 2024

As part of our Right to Protest campaign Amnesty has scheduled an online event for  6pm 28th May. Register here: www.themovementhub.org We are also organising a vigil outside the Embassy of Greece for 14th June 6pm comemorating the over 600 people who died when a small fishing boat packed with 750 refugees sank off the […]

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South America Newsletter May 2024

May 10, 2024

This month we bring you news from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, an Urgent Action on Ecuador and summaries of Amnesty’s annual reports on all the countries that we cover.   Highlights are: Colombia – A short Amnesty film showing the devastating impact of a “less than lethal” weapon on Leidy Cadena in the April 2021 […]

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Group Newsletter May 2024

April 30, 2024

Welcome to the latest newsletter. Our next meeting  is on Thursday 2nd May 2024, 7.30pm – 9.00pm at Moordown Community Centre. We will catch up on campaigns, letter writing, and discuss new ideas about campaigning. Leidy Cadena shares her powerful personal story of what a rubber bullet did to her          Content Warning: contains scenes of injury […]

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Iftar in Ensbury Park

April 11, 2024

We co-hosted and helped organise an Iftar at Ensbury Park Community Centre on 5th April. The driving force behind it was Sister Tama, Islamic Faith Adviser at Bournemouth University. It was also supported by Grounded Community, BCP Council and BCP Shout-Out. It was third time lucky! We originally planned an event for the 21st March […]

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South America Newsletter April 2024

April 4, 2024

This month we bring you news from Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela,  Argentina and Bolivia. Highlights are: Colombia – A petition demanding that the Colombian authorities protect human rights defenders. Brazil – 2 politicians and an ex-police chief have been arrested over the murder of Marielle Franco Venezuela – Presidential Elections have been brought forward to 28 July, with leading […]

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