The media and authorities have tried to divide
rich country protestors from poor country protestors
despite our common causes. Here are links to two
discussion articles and to Amnesty International
documents on human rights violations against
the international protest movement in 9 different countries.


Two excellent articles to
show why this is simply ignoring the facts are those

by
Jessica Woodroffe (25 Sep 2000)
of the WDM.
and
by Walden Bello (1 Jan 2001).


Amnesty International
is still a little shy about our
international social movement in favour of human
and environmental rights, but here are what seem to be AI's
most relevant documents on human rights violations against
protestors in nine different countries (dates are report dates and/or
event dates):



14 April 2000 - Bolivia



19 Oct 2000 - Bolivia



Sep 2000 - Prague, Czechy



Annual Report 2001 (events in 2000) - Ecuador



Annual Report 2001 (events in 2000) - Kenya
Here you have to scroll down to

> In April, 63 people including nuns, students and human rights
> defenders were arrested during a peaceful demonstration calling
> for the cancellation of Kenya's foreign debt, organized by the
> Kenya Debt Relief Network Jubilee 2000 Campaign. They were
> charged with unlawful assembly and released on bail. The charges
> were dropped in May.



Jan 2001 - Davos, Switzerland 2001



28 April 2001 - Naples, Italy



April 2001 - Quebec, Canada



11 July 2001 - Brazil



July 2001 - G8, Italy (before)



July 2001 - G8, Italy (after)


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