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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: El Salvador 6/13/2015
June 13, 2015
assassination of transwoman and human rights defender of the LGBTI community Francela Méndez Rodriguez and her friend Consuelo Flores in Sonsonate
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 6/2/2015
June 2, 2015
death threats to witnesses in two prominent human rights cases: Jacqueline Ramirez, Andrea Torres Bautista and Luis Carlos Ramirez; also, attack on Luis Carlos Ramirez, who narrowly escaped
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/1/2015
June 1, 2015
surveillance and intimidation of Gladys Lanza Ochoa, Coordinator of the Honduran Women’s Committee for Peace (Visitación Padilla)
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 5/16/2015
May 16, 2015
disappearance of political journalist Bernardo Javier Cano Torres, who had been threatened by the brother of the former mayor of Iguala, Guerrero, who was removed from office for his suspected role in the disappearance and presumed execution of 43 college students in September 2014
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 5/5/2015
May 5, 2015
death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Porvenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 5/4/2015
May 4, 2015
assassination of Embera Chami indigenous leader Fernando Salazar Calvo, active in artisanal miners’ union and resistance to multinational large-scale mining in Caldas Department
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 5/3/2015
May 3, 2015
assassination of Nasa indigenous members Mario German Valencia Vallejo, Belisario Trochez Ordóñez, Cristián David Trochez and disappearance of Berney Trochez and Wilson Trochez, all resisting illegal mining in Cauca
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 5/2/2015
May 2, 2015
assassination of environmental human rights defender Telésforo Odilio Pivaral González, active in the resistance against the El Escobal silver mining project in San Rafael Las Flores, Santa Rosa
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 5/1/2015
May 1, 2015
unjust detention of Mayan journalist Pedro Celestino Canché Herrera, reporting on protests of local water supply system
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RRN Letter: El Salvador 4/16/2015
April 16, 2015
police harassment of Catholic priest and environmental rights defender Father Santos Neftalí Ruíz Martínez, President of the Environmental Committee of Cabañas.
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