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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, 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, 02/24/2016
February 24, 2016
unjust arrest and detention of community leaders Jesús Arley Cartagena, Coordinator of the Human Rights Committee of the village of San José de Apartadó, and Laura Cataño Serna, member of the Peasant Association of San José de Apartadó and of the Human Rights Committee.
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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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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 02/11/2016
February 11, 2016
assassination of Paolo Barraza, a transwoman and board member of the LGTB Rainbow Association (Asociación LGTB Arcoíris) in Comayaguela.
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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: Colombia, 1/25/2016
January 25, 2016
assassination attempt on Maricel Ipia Yenny Luligo, peasant leader in Cauca Department and member of the Board of the Peasant Movement of Cajibio and member of the Municipal Roundtable of the Victims of Cajibío, affiliated with MOVICE-Cauca (Movement of Victims of State Crimes)
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 1/24/2016
January 24, 2016
death threats to José Miltiades Sanchez, a member of Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE)-Valle del Cauca and union leaders Wilson Sáenz and Julian Lozano of the Central Union of Workers–Valle (CUT–Valle), and the president of the Union of Street Vendors, Yimy Nuñez.
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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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