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Afro-Descendant & Indigenous: News & Updates

RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 02/26/2016
February 26, 2016
assassination of five indigenous Tolupán residents of San Francisco Locomapa, whose community has been organizing to defend their ancestral lands from the economic interests of outsiders: large private landholders, hydroelectric dam companies, mining companies, and the timber industry.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 02/25/2016
February 25, 2016
police and military use force to block a march by mostly Lenca indigenous people protesting the construction of the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque River
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Mexico, 02/23/2016
February 23, 2016
unjust imprisonment and maltreatment of Damián Gallardo Martinez, a teacher who has worked to defend the rights of indigenous communities and the right to education in the Mixe and Zapoteca regions of the Oaxaca Hills.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 02/22/2016
February 22, 2016
arson attack at the home of indigenous and environmental rights defenders Ana Miriam Romero and Rosalio Vasquez Pineda, members of the Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz (MILPAH) who are resisting construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Chinacla River in La Paz
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Event
Social Justice Teach-In
February 6, 2016
The InterReligious Task Force, in conjunction with Case Western Reserve University, presents the 16th annual Social Justice Teach-In as a great opportunity for people of all ages to learn about critical human rights issues and practice hands-on skills to organize for change. This annual event attracts 500+ participants, many from area high schools and colleges. The Teach-In will provide participants with information, skills, and resources to support their own social justice programming at their schools and congregations.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Mexico, 1/26/2016
January 26, 2016
assassination of journalist Marcos Hernández Bautista, who reported on influence of local political strongmen in Oaxaca State.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 1/23/2016
January 23, 2016
killing of Garífuna residents Joel Palacios Lino, age 24, and Elvis Armando Garcia, age 19, by Honduran Navy on Atlantic coast in Colón Dept.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Mexico, 1/22/2016
January 22, 2016
unjust imprisonment of indigenous rights leader Nestora Salgado García, former head of Regional Coordinating Body of Community Authorities: Community Police (CRAC-PC) in Guerrero
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 1/21/2016
January 21, 2016
assassination of Javier Vásquez Benítez, son of an indigenous leader whose community is organizing resistance to the Los Encinos Dam in La Paz Department.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 12/14/2015
December 14, 2015
attempted assassinations of land rights defenders on the Atlantic coast: Vidal Leiva (President of the Committee for the Defense of Land of the [Afro-descendant] Garífuna communities Crystals and Black River), Irma Lemus and Rigoberto Duran (Permanent Observatory of Human Rights of Aguán (OPDHA).
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