Conceição Paganele – Human rights defender
20/03/2012
Conceição Paganele, President and founder of Associação de Mães e Amigos de Crianças e Adolescentes em Risco (AMAR), The Association of Mothers and Friends of Children and Adolescents at risk & is key critic of Sao Paulo’s juvenile detention system, known as FEBEM (Fundação Estadual do Bem-Estar … [Read more...]
Antonio Fernandez Saez – lawyer
20/03/2012
Antonio Fernandez Saez, lawyer with dual Spanish and Brazilian citizenship, provides legal assistance to the socially deprived inhabitants of the Jardim Lavinia, Silvinha & Montanhao neighborhoods in Sao Bernardo do Campo. He also provides voluntary legal support to the human rights chapter of … [Read more...]
CARLOS CUASACE SURUBI – Political Activist
20/03/2012
There have been several reports of threats against the legal advisors and leaders of indigenous organizations involved in an ongoing land dispute in the territory of Monte Verde. On October 18th 1996, the President of the Republic of Bolivia officially recognized the territory of Monte Verde. … [Read more...]
Adalberto Rojas – Human rights defender
20/03/2012
Adalberto Rojas, male, lawyer and President of Bolivian non-governmental organization, the Asamblea Permanente en Santa Cruz de la Sierra (APDH), Permanent Human Rights Assembly in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department, has been threatened and intimidated. His life, and those of others … [Read more...]
Antoinette Moore – lawyer
20/03/2012
Human rights lawyer and activist Antoinette Moore was arrested and detained along with her husband Michael L. Flores for alleged drug trafficking. Antoinette Moore works as a lawyer in Dangriga. Many of her cases involve human rights issues and in particular allegations of police brutality. Michael … [Read more...]
LAURA FIGUEROA – Lawyer, EMILIO FERRER – Federal court prosecutor
20/03/2012
LRWC is concerned about threats to the safety of LRWC received information from Amnesty International that Laura Figueroa, a human rights lawyer, Fernanda Sanssone, an archaeology student, and Emilio Ferrer, a federal court prosecutor, all of whom are involved in the investigation of reported human … [Read more...]
RAUL HERNANDEZ – Mexican Indigenous Human Rights defender
29/04/2010
Raul Hernandez is a member of the Me'phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM) which promotes the human right of the Me'phaa people in Guerrero State in Mexico. On April 17, 2008 he and four other OPIM members were arrested at a military checkpoint in Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero for the … [Read more...]
Mexico: GUSTAVO DE LA ROSA HICKERSON – Human Rights Lawyer
09/10/2009
Human rights lawyer Gustavo De La Rosa Hickerson is one of the few officials to publically recognise the substantial increase in human rights violations by the armed forces in Ciudad Juarez, Northern Mexico. Thousands of military have patrolled the streets of Ciudad Juarez since 2008 in an attempt … [Read more...]
Mexico: Ricardo Lagunes Gasca – Lawyer
24/09/2009
Mr. RICARDO LAGUNES GASCA, a lawyer working for the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Centre, was attacked on 18 September 2009. He was leaving Ejido Jotola in Chilsn municipality after advising clients when an armed group of about 50 men and women blocked the road. Mr. Gasca was pulled from … [Read more...]
India: Shama Parween, age 12, daughter of Shamsunisha, resident of Dulhipur village, Chandauli district
06/08/2009
On June 16, 2009, Shamsunisha, mother of Shama Parween, requested authorities rescue her daughter Shama Parween and register a case against the accused: Mr. Mehndi, Mr. Haider and Chanda, wife of Mr. Haider for her kidnapping with the intention of trafficking. Physical abuse is also suspected. The … [Read more...]
