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Rapid Response Network

RRN’s team of letter-writers responds to six urgent human rights cases each month to

  1. protect people living under threat
  2. demand investigations into human rights crimes
  3. bring human rights criminals to justice
  4. ensure that human rights crimes are not happening in the dark.

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RRN Letter: Colombia 06/25/2019
June 25, 2019
colombian peoples’ outcry of national outrage and sorrow at the assassination of María del Pilar Hurtado, age 34, in Tierralta, Córdoba Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 06/24/2019
June 24, 2019
recent killings by paramilitary groups—as well as government security forces—of four persons in Colombia. They are: Jader Pertuz, age 24, Jader Polo, age 24, Jeferson Trochez Escue, age 16, and Luis Fernándo Velásquez.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 06/22/2019
June 22, 2019
assassinations of three social leaders of the Awa indigenous community in Nariño Department: Leidy Jacqueline Burgos Pai, Rocío García Pai, and Robert Dionisio García Bisbicús.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 06/21/2019
June 21, 2019
murders of two more community leaders in Colombia: Benedicto Valentia in San Vicente del Caguán in Caquetá Department and Paula Andrea Rosero Ordóñez inSamaniego in Nariño Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 06/21/2019
June 21, 2019

Excmo. Sr. Presidente Iván Duque Márquez, President of the Republic of Colombia

Sr. Fiscal General Néstor Humberto Martínez Neira, Attorney General of Colombia

June 21, 2019

Dear Sirs,

We are shocked and saddened at the murders of two more community leaders in Colombia: Benedicto Valentia in San Vicente del Caguán in Caquetá Department and Paula Andrea Rosero Ordóñez in Samaniego in Nariño Department.

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia 5/26/2019
May 26, 2019
130 former members of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been killed since the signing of the peace agreement between the FARC and the Colombian Government in 2016.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 5/22/2019
May 25, 2019
murder of Doctor Cristian Camilo Julio Arteaga, age 24, in El Bagre in the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia Department. He had just ended his shift on May 11 and was on his way to his home in Caucasia to celebrate mother’s day with his family when two men on motorbikes ambushed him on a main road and shot him.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 5/24/2019
May 24, 2019
murders of five community leaders, including three indigenous community members, which have occurred in the last month.
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RRN Letter: Guatemala 5/23/2019
May 23, 2019
death threats toward, nonconsensual surveillance of, and attempted attack on Quelvin Jimenez, lawyer of the indigenous Xinca People in San Rafael las Flores in Santa Rosa Department.
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RRN Letter: Honduras 5/22/2019
May 22, 2019
constant threats and attacks against Rosalina Domínguez, Finance Coordinator for the Indigenous Council of Río Blanco in Intibucá Department, her four sons (ages 16 to 30), and two other members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH).
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