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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
RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/2/2016
June 2, 2016
attacks, harassments, and threats against members of COPINH, including COPINH leader Alexander García Sorto, COPINH General Coordinator Tomás Gómez Membreño, and international observer accompanying COPINH Giulia Fellin.
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RRN Letter: El Salvador, 6/1/2016
June 1, 2016
appeal action and requested review of prison release of María Teresa Rivera, a woman who had a miscarriage but in 2011 was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 05/26/2016
May 26, 2016
detention of Alvaro García, a leader of the Victim’s Association of Magdalena Medio (ASORVIMM), and criminalization of other community leaders in Bella Unión and El Guayabo in the municipality of Puerto Wilches in Santander Department.
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RRN Letter: Honduras 5/25/2016
May 25, 2016
two assassination attempts on Felix Molina, a journalist in Tegucigalpa who hosts the community radio program Resistencia known for his critical reporting since the coup d’etat of 2009.
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 5/24/2016
May 24, 2016
Honduran government neglected to notify the family of Berta Cáceres of the arrest of four men allegedly associated with her murder and therefore neglected the proper protocol of homicide investigations.
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 5/23/2016
May 23, 2016
threats and intimidation towards Ana Mirian Romero and her children, a member of the Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz (MILPAH) and the San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Council who defends indigenous land rights.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 5/12/2016
May 12, 2016
Concern for the safety of Afro-descendant leaders from Cauca Department who have been threatened as a consequence of their campaign to protect their territorial rights and against illegal mining.
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 5/11/2016
May 11, 2016
Murder of journalist Francisco Pacheco Beltrán, from Taxco, Guerrero state. He was a reporter for several regional newspapers and a regular contributor to a radio station.
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 4/26/2016
April 26, 2016
Ill treatment and arbitrary arrests of José Miltiades Sánchez, director of the organization LGBTI Association Youth Movement (AJEM), as well as Cidar Armando Arias Mendoza and Evin Omar Ponce Garcia, both members of the association.
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RRN Letter: Colombia 4/25/2016
April 25, 2016
Continuing death threats against trade unionists and human rights defendersin the Valle del Cauca Department.
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