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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Europe Newsletter March 2024

March 21, 2024

First some good news : Our Europe team has four country coordinators again : Lucja Jastrzebska has joined us and she will be taking over the work on Central Europe, while Ulrike will focus on the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. Welcome Lucja! She will cover the Baltic republics, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. […]

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South America Newsletter March 2024

March 4, 2024

This month we bring you news from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. Highlights are: Venezuela  – An Urgent Action calling on the government to release human rights defender Rocio San Miguel. Venezuela – Another Urgent Action calling on the authorities to stop withholding medical care from detainees. Venezuela/Argentina – Amnesty International’s submission with the […]

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Group Newsletter February 2024

February 23, 2024

Our next meeting  is on Thursday 7th March 2024, 7.30pm – 9.00pm at Moordown Community Centre. We will catch up on campaigns, letter writing, and discuss new ideas about campaigning. We will also plan our involvement in next months Iftar, as explained below… Iftar in Bournemouth In conjunction with Feed our Community we will be hosting an Iftar […]

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South America Newsletter February 2024

February 5, 2024

This month we bring you news that: Colombia – The Colombian NGO Indepaz found that 187 social leaders and human rights defenders were killed in 2023, about the same number as in 2022 and 2021. There is still time to sign Amnesty International’s petition demanding that the Colombian Government improves its protection of human rights […]

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