silencing of journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado who is unjustly banned from working by order of the Honduran Supreme Court
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Rapid Response Network
RRN’s team of letter-writers responds to six urgent human rights cases each month to
- protect people living under threat
- demand investigations into human rights crimes
- bring human rights criminals to justice
- ensure that human rights crimes are not happening in the dark.
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RRN Letter
October 11, 2015
RRN Letter
September 26, 2015
assassination of journalist Flor Alba Núñez Vargas outside her radio station in Pitalito, Huila Dept.
RRN Letter
September 25, 2015
unjust 2-year detention and false criminal charges against Saúl Méndez and Rogelio Velásquez, members of the people’s organized resistance to a hydroelectric dam project in Santa Cruz Barillas, Huehuetenango Dept.
RRN Letter
September 24, 2015
assassination of three LGBT rights advocates (Violeta R., Angy Ferreira, Juan Carlos Cruz Andara), threats against six, and attacks on four over the past five months.
RRN Letter
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.
RRN Letter
September 12, 2015
assassination of Gilmer Genaro García Ramírez, Afro-descendant leader of Alto Mira y Frontera community in Nariño Dept.
RRN Letter
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)
RRN Letter
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.
RRN Letter
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.
RRN Letter
August 14, 2015
surveillance, intimidation and harassment of Reina Lilian Rodriguez, Southern Regional Delegate of the National Human Rights Commission (CONADEH) and her team
