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Mexican lawyer in London to speak about crisis facing indigenous rights advocates

Supporting the deprived communities of Mexico’s Guerrero State, the Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre’s work is indispensable. But the centre’s doors have been closed since March 2009 following threats, aggression and harassment...[more]

PBI Guatemala Project: Alert about the extreme vulnerability of democratic institutions and increased risk of threats and attacks against human rights defenders

The political and social instability of Guatemala has grown worse with the murder of Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg on 10 May and the broadcast the next day of a video in which he accuses high-level government officials of...

Colombia: Yolanda Becerra Vega receives women's and children's rights award

Amnesty International USA has awarded the PBI-accompanied human rights defender its 2009 Ginettta Sagan Award for her work with Colombia's Popular Women's Organisation.

Lord Avebury meets Colombian Lawyer Alirio Uribe

Lord Eric Avebury writes in his blog about meeting Alirio Uribe, a lawyer whom PBI accompanies in Colombia.

Listen to a podcast on Colombia: a dangerous place for human rights lawyers and defenders.

Friday, 8 May 2009.

Human rights organisations have registered an average of 25 cases of lawyers and human rights advocates killed on a yearly basis since 1991, which amounts to 400 people in a 16 years period. In addition,they...

UK lawyers demand action on human rights from Colombian authorities

Daily threats to the lives of Colombian human rights lawyers have prompted the publication of a report, today, by the Law Society of England and Wales.

More than 400 Colombian lawyers have been murdered since 1991. No-one has...