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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, 9/24/2016
September 24, 2016
Presence of paramilitaries in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Antioquia Department. Located approximately 12 km from the city of Apartadó, San José de Apartadó is comprised of 28 hamlets and has a population of nearly 3,000.
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RRN Letter: Guatemala, 9/23/2016
September 23, 2016
Attack against Esteban Hermelindo Cux and Fredy Qib, two indigenous community leaders. On September 2, approximately 20 masked men armed with machetes and firemarms attacked the home of Esteban Hermelindo Cux, an indigenous Q’eqchi’ organizer in Panzós in Alto Verapaz Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 9/22/2016
September 22, 2016
Murder of peasant farmer leader Cecilia Coicue, age 62, in the village of Cominera, municipality of Corinto in Cauca Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 9/21/2016
September 21, 2016
Concern for the safety of human rights defender Rocío Campos, a member of the Magdalena Medio chapter of Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE).
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RRN Letter: Guatemala, 8/26/2016
August 26, 2016
Escalating wave of intimidation against legal officials. At 6am on August 15 in Guatemala City, eight armed men posing as police officers forced their way into the house of Ramón Cadena Rámila, Central America Director of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/25/2016
August 25, 2016
The National Federation of Agricultural Workers Unions (Fensuagro), their affiliate and allies in the Department of Putumayo, are in imminent danger from the Colombian Armed Forces.
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 8/14/2016
August 14, 2016
Death threats to human rights defender Jorge Jiménez, who works for the nongovernmental organization CODEH (Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras).
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/13/2016
August 13, 2016
Death threats issued by the paramilitary group Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC) against human rights defenders.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/2/2016
August 2, 2016
Death threats from an anonymous caller on July 18 to Iván Madero Vergel, President of the Regional Corporation for Defending Human Rights (CREDHOS), in Barrancabermeja, Santander Department.
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 8/1/2016
August 1, 2016
Killing on June 19 of journalist Elidio Ramos Zárate, age 45, a crime reporter for the regional daily newspaper El Sur, who was fatally shot in the neck by two unknown assailants driving a motorcycle.
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