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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: Guatemala, 9/23/2015
September 23, 2015
intimidation of and shots fired outside the office of CALAS, an environmental group denouncing abuses by Tahoe Resources mining company in Santa Rosa Dept.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 9/12/2015
September 12, 2015
assassination of Gilmer Genaro García Ramírez, Afro-descendant leader of Alto Mira y Frontera community in Nariño Dept.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 9/11/2015
September 11, 2015
death threats and tampering with vehicle of Elizabeth Zúñiga, journalist working with SITRAUNAH (Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of Honduras)
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/16/2015
August 16, 2015
death threats to Nicolasa Díaz Ortiz, Executive Director of the Association of the Children and Youth Moyas Workshop House (Casa Taller), a community organization in the Chapinero neighborhood of Bogotá.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/15/2015
August 15, 2015
killing of two (unnamed) transgender women in Cali, Valle del Cauca Dept., and the injuries of a third woman; 15 killings of transwomen have been documented in Colombia this year, including four in Cali.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 8/14/2015
August 14, 2015
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Reina Lilian Rodriguez, Southern Regional Delegate of the National Human Rights Commission (CONADEH) and her team
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/13/2015
August 13, 2015
death threats to Iván Madero Vergel, Director of the Regional Corporation for the Defense of Human Rights (CREDHOS), in Barrancabermeja, Santander.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/2/2015
August 2, 2015
death threats to Claudia Mabel Palacios, who is seeking justice in the forced disappearance of her 19-year old son Hafith Rios Palacios in Valle del Cauca in 2014.
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Colombia, 8/1/2015
August 1, 2015
death threats to Miguel Briceño, leader of the peasant farmer community of El Povenir in Puerto Gaitán Municipality, Meta Department
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Guatemala, 7/26/2015
July 26, 2015
unjust detention of Bernardo Ermitaño López Reyes, member of the Council of Mayan People and community leader with high profile in the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.
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