BIF News Briefing, August 2012
CONTENTS 1. TIPNIS consultation extended after community resistance 2. Freedom of expression concerns as government takes legal action against newspapers 3. Protests over illegal coca plantations and ‘ecological’ military deployment 4. Tensions mount over Colquiri mine 5. MAS plans to eradicate extreme poverty by 2025 Bicentenary 6. Sacha Llorenti named as ambassador to the UN [...]
Mothers Bond to Heal as Baltimore’s Drug War Meets Mexico’s
As the peace caravan arrived in Baltimore yesterday morning, many of the 100-some people on board still slept, hunched over their seats or slumped on the shoulders of their bus mates. With a light summer rain falling, we began to pass row after row of abandoned houses. A member of a Baltimore host organization explained [...]
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Introduction Since the Wikileaks and Assange affair, and than the denial to extradite Alexander Barankov, Ecuador positioned itself as the champion of human rights and a defender of free speech. It is a very positive sign that Latin American government step up the plate, and show that democracy indeed has become a fixed feature of [...]
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Colombia: Cyber attacks against human rights organisation Political Prisoner’s Solidarity Committee
S.E. Juan Manuel Santos, Presidente de la República, Colombia Your Excellency, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights ambassador for Salem-News.com. I came to know from Front Line – The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders regarding the situation. Throughout the month of August 2012, the human rights organisation Fundación Comité de [...]
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