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IAPL demands immediate release of U.S. Atty. Peter Erlinder
Contract Workers of Chhattisgarh Oppose Corporate Land Grab and Salwa Judum
Filipino government’s attempt to revive Anti-Subversion Law slammed
on its 4th Congress, which was held on 29-30 May, 2010, in Utrecht, NL
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Report of the IAPL Fact Finding and Solidarity Mission to Rondonia, Brazil
December 2008
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Brazil, Randonia FFM PHOTO GALLERY
A documentary produced by IAPL about:
1. Forced displacement of tribal people in Chhattisgarh, India,
2. Corporate invasion of tribal lands,
3. Salwa Judum Campaign,
4. Indian state terrorism, and
5. Concentration camps for the tribal people.
Report of the IAPL Fact Finding Mission on the human rights situation in Chhattisgarh, India: Observations and findings about the Salwa Judum Campaign and the tribal peoeple
IAPL is deeply concerned about the situation of Peter Erlinder, a law professor and attorney, who was arrested in Kigali, Rwanda on May 28.
The IAPL denounces in the strongest possible terms, the illegal arrest, continued illegal detention, torture and inhuman treatment of forty-three (43) Philippine health workers who were abducted by the Philippine military in the morning of February 6, 2010 in Morong, Rizal, Philippines.
IAPL published its report of the Fact Finding Mission (FFM) to the Rondonia state of Brazil.
The IAPL was invited to form an international delegation and visit the state of Rondonia, Brazil to conduct an Fact Finding and Solidarity Mission. The delegation was invited by the Brazilian organizations Núcleo dos Advogados do Povo (NAP) and Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos (Cebraspo) in order to investigate and verify reports on human rights violations against the poor peasants in the region.
The delegation was composed of lawyers from Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, the Netherlands, the Philippines and Turkey. The Mission took place on December 1 to 4, 2008.
The full report is available here.
The International Association of People's Lawyers (IAPL) strongly condemns the unlawful abduction, torture and threat to life of India political leader Kobad Ghandy.
The International Association of People's Lawyers (IAPL), condemns in the strongest terms the listing of human rights lawyers in the Philippine military's Order of Battle. The Order of Battle was reportedly presented through a power point prepared and released by the 10th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army in Southern Mindanao.
READ MORE about the listing of Human Rights Lawyers in the Philippine Military's Order of Battle
Int. Fact-Finding & Solidarity Mission
on the situation of peasants in Rondonia, Brazil
IAPL has concluded its International Fact Finding and Solidarity Mission to Randonia, Brazil with a press conference that it held in Rio de Janeiro on 05 December 2008.
IAPL was invited to a mission by the Brazilian organizations Núcleo dos Advogados do Povo (NAP) and Centro Brasileiro de Solidariedade aos Povos (Cebraspo) in order to verify and investigate reports on human rights violations in the countryside of Brazil, particularly in the state of Rondonia and especially concerning the poor peasants movement.
READ MORE about the Mission's preliminary findings and recommendations.
Contract Workers of Chhattisgarh Oppose Corporate Land Grab and Salwa Judum
On 23rd November, hundreds of contract workers demonstrated in the industrial city of Bhilai against the economic policies of the Centre and State Governments.
Prostests also voiced anger about massive displacements and Salwa Judum.
Invitation to the Fact Finding Mission in Rondonia, Brazil
The attacks of the landlords against the poor peasants in the Amazon region of Brazil have increased in intensity and scale. Land grabbing and the expansion of big landlords reach ever bigger scales with cattle raising, soy crops, and wood and ores extractions while populations of poor peasants and indigenous people are evicted from their own land in ever larger numbers.
Moreover, the peasants’ movement is facing a vicious criminalization campaigns by the monopoly media. The criminalization of the peasant organizations is used to further legitimize the state repression and the criminal actions of the state and paramilitary forces.
As the repression of the poor peasants is worsening in the Amazon region of Brazil, the International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) and its Brazilian Chapter (People’s Lawyers Nucleus), along with the Brazilian Center of Solidarity to the Peoples (Cebraspo), extend an invitation to an International Fact Finding Mission in Rondonia, Brazil on December 1-6, 2008.
Read more about the mission objectives, tentative agenda, and other preparatory information.
Read more about the background of peasants’ situation in the region.
IAPL Condemns the State Terror Unleashed Against Poor Peasants in Northern Brazil
Since November 17, 2007. massive operations have been unleashed against the peasants in the south of Para state, Northern Brazil. The operation, so-called “Operation Peace on the Countryside”, involves a number of repression organs and aims to hunt peasants who are struggling bravely for the right to the land against notorious landlords, who have repeatedly been accused of serious violations of human rights. Read more.
Preliminary observations and findings of the IAPL team on the human rights situation in Chhattisgarh, India
The IAPL delegation for the international fact finding mission in India’s Chhattisgarh region has returned. The delegation was invited by the Association of Peoples’ Lawyers in India to investigate the situation of displaced indigenous people in Chhattisgarh State of India.
The delegation’s visit throughout the region, first hand observation and interviews, as well as the study of previous reports and commentaries by human rights organization, women’s groups, doctors, and experts on the ongoing conflict in Chhattisgarh reveals a widespread and systematic violations of rights of the tribal people in the region.
For more information, read the press statement issued by the IAPL delegation.