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  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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  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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  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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  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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  March 31, 2016
  The InterReligious Task Force on Central America has placed posters around Cleveland reading “Greatly Missed.” These posters tell the stories of victims of police brutality and US state-sponsored violence around the world. The victims include Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, and Michael Brown—killed in recent years by police. They also include Oscar Romero, Jean Donovan, Dorothy Kazel, —disappeared and murdered by graduates of the US-based School of the Americas. Some of the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Guerrero, Mexico are present because of unchecked military assistance to countries with human right violations. Finally, you will see the story of Berta Caceres, Nelson Garcia and Soad Nicole Ham Bustillo, each brutally murdered in Honduras in the past 12 months.
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  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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  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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  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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  Take 2 steps for peace in Colombia
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  In honor of the victims
  