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Letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Regarding Assassination of Berta Cáceres
March 10, 2016
Dear Secretary of State Kerry, We write in shock and deep sorrow regarding the murder of Honduran human rights and environmental defender Berta Cáceres, founder and general secretary of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). We urge a response from the State Department that is not business as usual but a profound change of direction towards improving the abysmal situation of human rights in Honduras.
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CIW launches national boycott against Wendy's
March 1, 2016

On Sunday March 6th over 500 farmworkers, students, people of faith and consumers came together to lift their voices in a march through downtown Columbus, OH to urge Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program. We were there with a Cleveland group to support the CIW and farmworkers in their fight for their rights.

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#FreeThemAll Webinar Recording

On Friday, May 29, IRTF hosted a webinar focused on the prison pandemic and the call for decarceration that has risen in response to the quick spread of Covid-19 in detention centers, specifically those in Ohio.

RECORDING:

For access to the webinar recording, the presentation report, or the report on our community dialog which followed, please contact irtf@irtfcleveland.org!

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URGENT ACTION: Human Rights Defenders in Colombia Need our Action Now!

Take 2 steps for peace in Colombia

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In honor of the victims - Close the school of America

In honor of the victims

 

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IRTF Policy Packet: August 2019
IRTF takes annual advocacy trips to Washington D.C. to speak with officers in each of our representatives' and senators' W.D.C offices. We express our cries of just policy that promotes freedom, justice, peace, and dignity for our neighbors in this hemisphere. We promote humane immigration policy that sees those arriving at our southern border as refugees rather than criminals, policy that restricts the neoliberal neocolonialist actions of trans and multi-national corporations, and a budget that significantly cuts military aid to central and South America and Mexico, among other issues.
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IRTF Statement on Immigration Policy

The InterReligious Task Force on Central America was founded 45 years ago to honor the sacrifice and carry forward the legacy of solidarity of Cleveland’s church women who were raped and murdered in El Salvador. Living out that solidarity is as important now as ever.

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I.C.E. Victims Support Information

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Sign the Petition to Free Bernardo Caal Xol

We ask the Guatemalan government to put a stop to the oppression of Indigenous people’s voices and human rights.

Bernardo Caal Xol, Q’eqchi’ leader and human rights advocate, was wrongfully arrested on January 30th of 2018.

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