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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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