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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: Mexico, 7/12/2016
July 12, 2016
Murder of journalist Elidio Ramos Zárate, a crime reporter for the regional daily newspaper EL Sur. Ramos Zárate was reporting on several blockades and buses set on fire by teachers protesting in Juchitán. Ramos was the third journalist killed in Oaxaca this year.
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RRN Letter: Guatemala, 7/11/2016
July 11, 2016
Assassination of human rights defender Brenda Marleni Estrada Tambito, the Sub-Coordinator of the Legal Aid Commission of the Coalition of the Workers' Union of Guatemala(UNSITRAGUA).
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RRN Letter: Mexico, 6/26/2016
June 26, 2016
detention of Alvaro García, a leader of the Victim’s Association of Magdalena Medio (ASORVIMM), and criminalization of other community leaders in Bella Unión and El Guayabo in the municipality of Puerto Wilches in Santander Department.
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RRN Letter: Guatemala, 6/25/2016
June 25, 2016
assassination of Diego Choc Pop, an indigenous and campesino human rights defender from the San Juan Tres Ríos community in Cobán Department which he represented at the General Assembly of the Highlands Campesino Committee.
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RRN Letter: El Salvador, 6/24/2016
June 24, 2016
repeated intimidation and surveillance of Pedro José Cruz and Bertha de León, human rights lawyers involved with corruption cases
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/23/2016
June 23, 2016
murder of René Martínez, LGBTI rights defender and President of Comunidad Gay Sampredrana for Integral Health, an LGBTI advocacy group based in San Pedro Sula.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/2/2016
June 2, 2016
attacks, harassments, and threats against members of COPINH, including COPINH leader Alexander García Sorto, COPINH General Coordinator Tomás Gómez Membreño, and international observer accompanying COPINH Giulia Fellin.
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RRN Letter: El Salvador, 6/1/2016
June 1, 2016
appeal action and requested review of prison release of María Teresa Rivera, a woman who had a miscarriage but in 2011 was sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated homicide.
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RRN Letter: Colombia, 05/26/2016
May 26, 2016
detention of Alvaro García, a leader of the Victim’s Association of Magdalena Medio (ASORVIMM), and criminalization of other community leaders in Bella Unión and El Guayabo in the municipality of Puerto Wilches in Santander Department.
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RRN Letter: Honduras 5/25/2016
May 25, 2016
two assassination attempts on Felix Molina, a journalist in Tegucigalpa who hosts the community radio program Resistencia known for his critical reporting since the coup d’etat of 2009.
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