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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, 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: 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: 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: 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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RRN Letter: Honduras, 1/21/2016
January 21, 2016
assassination of Javier Vásquez Benítez, son of an indigenous leader whose community is organizing resistance to the Los Encinos Dam in La Paz Department.
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RRN Letter: Guatemala, 12/16/2015
December 16, 2015
death threats to Rafael Maldonado, Legal Director for the Guatemalan Centre for Environmental, Social and Legal Action (CALAS). This follows the escape from house arrest of a security director of Tahoe Resources’ open-pit silver mine El Escobal in Jalapa Department
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 12/15/2015
December 15, 2015
threats to Catholic priest and migrant rights defender Fray Aurelio Montero Vásquez, who presented a legal complaint for the kidnapping and sexual violence of migrants in Tenosique, Tabasco State.
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 12/14/2015
December 14, 2015
attempted assassinations of land rights defenders on the Atlantic coast: Vidal Leiva (President of the Committee for the Defense of Land of the [Afro-descendant] Garífuna communities Crystals and Black River), Irma Lemus and Rigoberto Duran (Permanent Observatory of Human Rights of Aguán (OPDHA).
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 12/13/2015
December 13, 2015
death threats to Danelly Estupiñán (Process of Black Communities, PCN), and Rocío del Pilar Segura (community leader), organizing resistance to port expansion at Buenaventura sea port in Valle de Cauca Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 12/12/2015
December 12, 2015
assassination of Daniel Abril, member of the Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE), who had been vocal about human rights abuses committed by oil companies in Casanare Department. Also: death threats to María Cardona Mejía, technical secretary of the Caldas Department chapter of MOVICE.
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