surveillance of Berenice Celeita, Director of the Research and Social Action Association (NOMADESC) at her home in Bogotá
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Afro-Descendant & Indigenous: News & Updates
RRN Letter
July 2, 2015
RRN Letter
June 14, 2015
death threats to Omar Esparza, widower of human rights defender Bety Cariño, who was assassinated in 2010 while assisting indigenous communities in Oaxaca State.
RRN Case Update
June 1, 2015
Garífuna community of Barra Vieja on trial for defending ancestral territory
Over the past few decade, RRN members have sent more than a dozen letters to officials in Honduras. They have have denounced an endless series of politically motivated killings and attacks against the Afro-descendant Garífuna people, carried out by wealthy and powerful sectors trying to take over Garífuna lands on the Atlantic coast for agri-business and the global tourist industry. The government of Honduras has been either complicit in the repression, or complicit through its utter lack of political and legal action to hold the powerful accountable for their political crimes.
RRN Letter
May 4, 2015
assassination of Embera Chami indigenous leader Fernando Salazar Calvo, active in artisanal miners’ union and resistance to multinational large-scale mining in Caldas Department
RRN Letter
May 3, 2015
assassination of Nasa indigenous members Mario German Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez, Cristián David Trochez and disappearance of Berney Trochez and Wilson Trochez, all resisting illegal mining in Cauca
RRN Letter
May 1, 2015
unjust detention of Mayan journalist Pedro Celestino Canché Herrera, reporting on protests of local water supply system
RRN Letter
April 14, 2015
unjust detention of environmental rights defenders Sotero Adalberto Villatoro, Francisco Juan Pedro and Arturo Pablo Juan of Santa Cruz Barillas municipality in Huehuetenango Department.
RRN Letter
April 12, 2015
attacks on Marlene Benitez, her family, and other members of the Afro-descendant communities of the Curvaradó River Basin in Chocó Department.
RRN Case Update
April 1, 2015
Indigenous Rights Campaigner Wins International Environmental Award
RRN letter [excerpted] – to President and Attorney General of Honduras
September 24, 2013
RRN Letter
March 2, 2015
assassinations of four indigenous land rights activists in Cauca Department (Gerardo Velasco Escue, Emiliano Silva Oteca, Arturo Andrés Galindo Bastos and Carlos Algeiro Mera Pino) and death threats to indigenous community leader Alfredo Campo Lectamo and others speaking out against these killings
