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Rapid Response Network - Case Updates
RRN Case Update
April 1, 2016
Indigenous Human Rights and Envirnonmental Defender Berta Cáceres Assassinated
RRN Case Update
January 1, 2016
Disappearance of 43 Students: suspicion of torture, collusion between officials and organized crime
RRN letter [excerpted]
October 13, 2014: to the governor of Guerrero and federal interior minister, with copies to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) and other officials
RRN Case Update
December 1, 2015
US deports Salvadoran general for 1980s assassinations
Gen. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova is the highest-ranking foreign official to be deported under laws enacted in 2004 to prevent human rights violators from seeking haven in the US
RRN Case Update
October 1, 2015
Colombian Constitutional Court rules in favor of Las Pavas community land-holders
RRN letter [excerpted]
August 11, 2009- sent to the president and vice-president of Colombia
RRN Case Update
June 1, 2015
Garífuna community of Barra Vieja on trial for defending ancestral territory
Over the past few decade, RRN members have sent more than a dozen letters to officials in Honduras. They have have denounced an endless series of politically motivated killings and attacks against the Afro-descendant Garífuna people, carried out by wealthy and powerful sectors trying to take over Garífuna lands on the Atlantic coast for agri-business and the global tourist industry. The government of Honduras has been either complicit in the repression, or complicit through its utter lack of political and legal action to hold the powerful accountable for their political crimes.
RRN Case Update
May 2, 2015
Founder and Chairman of Canadian Silver Mining Company Summoned to Court over Human Rights Abuses
RRN LETTER - to the president and attorney general of Guatemala
RRN Case Update
April 1, 2015
Indigenous Rights Campaigner Wins International Environmental Award
RRN letter [excerpted] – to President and Attorney General of Honduras
September 24, 2013
RRN Case Update
May 1, 2013
Former dictator RÌos Montt found guilty of genocide
RRN Case Update
April 1, 2013
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights sends Gariífuna case to Inter-American Court
RRN Case Update
January 1, 2013
Peace Community validated by Colombian Court
