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Sobre el aumento de la represión en las comunidades lencas y garífunas y el papel de la UE y España
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[PRESS RELEASE] Attacks against women defenders on the rise: another Mesoamerican epidemic
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA/ GOVERNMENT CANCELS LEGAL STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
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PRESS RELEASE / More than 180 international organizations denounce surge in repression against women human rights defenders in Honduras
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Repression, Arbitrary Arrest and Criminalization of Women Territorial Defenders of the New Ebenezer Campesino Associative Enterprise
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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Murder of Celedonia Zalazar: community judge and defender of indigenous territory on Caribbean Coast
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Nicaraguan Initiative of Women Defenders condemns agression against defender of environmental and women’s rights Luisa Centeno
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HONDURAS / NEW ATTEMPT AGAINST SAFETY OF MIRTHA GUTIÉRREZ
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Arbitrary arrest with excessive use of force against UNAH students
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization, defamation and stigmatization of Dinia Yasmin Sarmiento Suárez and Suany Ibeth Sánchez Argueta
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Update. Prosecution persists against housing right defenders
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization of Miriam Miranda, OFRANEH General Coordinator
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Threats, criminalization and repression of defenders of the rights to health and territory
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OPEN LETTER / Latent risk of state of siege in Guatemala following expulsion order issued by President Jimmy Morales against International Commissioner against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Police use violence to oust camp of UNAH students on hunger strike
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / More arbitrary arrests of WHRD of the right to water in Paujiles
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization of Garifuna OFRANEH Members for Territorial Defense
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Arbitrary Detention of Angélica Recinos and comrades of the Honorable Camp for Water and Life in Paujiles
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Criminalization of Workers’ Rights Defenders at Sae Technotex
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NICARAGUA: Charges Dropped against Defender Aydil Urbina
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Congratulations to Luchadoras TV on 5 years of building the transforming power of women’s voices
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Closure threats against Garifuna community radio station Radio Waruguma in Trujillo
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HONDURAS / Letter to Human Rights Prosecutor Soraya Morales for recurring attacks on students of the National Autonomous University of Honduras
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We thank organizations that made possible "Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land..."
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MEXICO / OSC asks International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against humanity in Coahuila, Mexico
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Laicism in defense of our rights
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Attempt on the life of Bertha Zuniga, daughter of Bertha Cáceres and COPINH Coordinator
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Declaration of organizations participating in the Latin American Gathering of Defenders and Authorities of the Original Peoples and Territories of Latin America
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Gunmen threaten Aura Lolita Chávez and CPK
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6 HUNGER-STRIKING NURSES IN CHIAPAS FACE HEALTH RISK –– RNDDHM URGES SPEEDY SOLUTION TO DEMANDS
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Women defender networks meet at UN for first time to denounce violence and discrimination against women activists throughout the world
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#WHRDAlert MEXICO-Tamaulipas / Murder of Miriam Elizabeth Rodriguez Martínez of the Community in Search of the Disappeared in Tamaulipas (CBDT)
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NEWS / NETWORKS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE PLANET GO TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES ABOUT PROTECTION WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
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Aydil Urbina, yet another defender attacked by National Police
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Arbitrary arrest, excessive use of force and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment against Aydil del Carmen Urbina Noguera
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Women human rights defenders gather in Guatemala
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization and arrest warrants for members of Regional Agrarian Platform of the Aguán Valley
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Attempt against son of anti-canal leader Francisca Ramírez
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GOOD NEWS! / IACHR ACCEPTS CASE OF MANUELA, the Salvadoran woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage
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#WHRDAlertNICARAGUA / Abuse of authority; imprisonment; and cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of defender Thelma Francisca Suárez Oliva
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Anti-rights groups attack peaceful ‘Somos Muchas’ encampment
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OPEN LETTER / Disturbing context of violence and discrimination against TRANS community in Honduras
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Women defending their territories; voices of resistance in Nicaragua
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Illegal detention, infringement of the rights of defenders of the Broad Front for Democracy to free circulation and protest
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CALL TO ACTION / APRIL 25 - TWITTER STORM FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN HONDURAS
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Attempt on the physical integrity of Hedme Castro, of ACI-Participa
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OPEN LETTER to Edison Lanza, IACHR Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression about the closure in Nicaragua of the Onda Local radio program
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Onda Local radio program taken off air
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Hate crime against Sherly Montoya, LGTTBI defender and member of Transexual Women´s Group “Muñecas de Arcoiris”
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SORORITY / #LawPassed #ElSalvadorFreeOfMetalMining
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#WHRDAlert MEXICO / Assassination of journalist Miroslava Breach in Chihuahua
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Campaign of harassment, defamation and threats stepped up against Nicaraguan rights defenders
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OPEN LETTER / TO THE GOVERNMENT OF GUATEMALA: WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE ADOLESCENT WOMEN DIED IN THE VIRGIN OF THE ASSUMPTION SAFE HOME
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Mistreatment, Sexual exploitation, Extrajudicial execution and femicide against The Interns of the Virgin of the Assumption Safe Home
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Women cabinet members and government oficials defame and slander CENIDH President Vilma Nuñez
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Death threat against Lottie Cunningham, defender of the rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Arrest and Harassment of OPDHA Secretary Irma Lemus
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STATEMENT / ONE YEAR AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF BERTA CÁCERES
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SISTERHOOD / #WHRDAlert COLOMBIA: At least six women defenders have been killed in the last four months
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Criminalization and excessive use of force in evicting housing rights defenders
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Article censored on smear campaign against CICIG
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Harrassment and criminalization of CEM-H for demanding #JusticeForBerta
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Criminalization and obstruction of Women on Waves Campaign for the sexual and reproductive rights of women
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Alarming increase in hate crimes and culture against LGBTTTI persons
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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group
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CALL TO ACTION / GLOBAL TWEET BOMB #JusticeForBerta (March 2nd)
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CALL TO ACTION / The National Network of Human Rights Defenders in Honduras calls for mobilization in front of the Honduras embassies this March 2 to demand #JusticeForBerta
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS – SPANISH STATE / Physical attack against Arely Victoria Gómez, Honduran LGBTTTI defender and refugee in Spanish State
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NEWS / National Meeting of WHRDs in Nicaragua: Women in the forefront of social struggle
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NEWS/ National defender network in Honduras launches campaign: Defending to Live and Live Well
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PRESS STATEMENT RNDDHHM / "WHRD's networks are a key factor for protection": Michel Forst
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NEWS / Rapporteur Michel Forst issues alert on specific violence faced by women human rights defenders
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NEWS / "La Rojita" is 3 years old!
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NEWS / National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras presents the book Marta, la de la López: The way I learned and unlearned
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Assailants kill territorial defender, Laura Leonor Vásquez
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NEWS / Mexican WHRDs meet with the Rapporteur Mr. Michel Forst
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URGENT ACTION: We denounce death threats against human rights defender Eva Lucero Rivero Ortiz
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Detention and threats against OFRANEH Coordinator Miriam Miranda
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NEWS / First oficial visit of Rapporteur Michel Forst to Mexico
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Criminalization of land defenders in Santa Inés, Alta Verapaz
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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Smear campaign intensifies, threats and verbal misogynous attacks against Margarita Posada, Coordinator of the National Health Forum
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Harassment and threats against Indigenous Councils of Nueva Esperanza, San Isidro Labrador and Santiago Apostol
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Police confiscate work vehicles from defender Francisca Ramírez
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Nicaraguan government represses right to peaceful protest against imposition of Grand Interoceanic Canal
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / #LGBTI rights defender Sulma Alegría murdered
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STATEMENT / November 29th - International Women Human Rights Defenders Day
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Harassment and and represssion of UNAG students exercising their right to peaceful protest
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The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico presents the campaign: "We Women Defenders Believe and Create"
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Marta Sánchez Soler and Morena Herrera #WHRDs #WomenWhoInspireUs
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Concern about the increase in attacks of various kinds against members of UDEFEGUA
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Invitation to virtual dialogue “Self-Care, a Political Strategy in Defense of Human Rights”
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HONDURAS / Support from IM-Defensoras for International Experts Advisory Group (GAIPE)
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OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras Supports Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared Sons and Daughters
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IM-Defensoras In the Campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women 2016
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OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras express our absolute repudiation of the reported robbery of the original case files on the murder of Berta Cáceres
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#WHRDAlert / COPINH members at risk after new attempts on lives of General Coordinator and community leader
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We stand in solidarity with Peruvian defender Máxima Acuña, victim of a new attack
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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras laments the death of Gladys Lanza, long-time feminist and WHRD in Honduras
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Excessive use of force against members of Nuevo Ebenezer campesino group
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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION
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#WHRDAlert Arbitrary detention of members of September 28th Campaign & Nicaraguan Initiatiative of WHRDs
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NEWS / IM-Defensoras at AWID FORUM 2016, Brasil
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NEWS / After #SixMonthsWithoutJustice, IM-Defensoras continues to demand #JusticeForBerta
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Preventive detention for defender Wendy Morales despite lack of evidence against her
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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder
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NEWS / IM-Defensoras present in the AWID Forum 2016 in Brazil
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NEWS / IM-DEFENSORAS and national groups tell UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about attacks and impunity faced by women defenders in Mesoamerica
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Criminalization of journalist and human rights defender, Iduvina Hernández, Director of SEDEM
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Arbitrary arrest and subseqüent release of GABRIELA DÍAZ and KAREN MEJÍA
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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras celebrates acquittal in case criminalizing Salvadoran women rights defender Sonia Sánchez
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OPEN LETTER / Mr. Michel Forst - Alarming context of impunity and attacks against women human rights defenders in Mexico and Central America
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EL SALVADOR / SONIA SÁNCHEZ – Territorial defender
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STATEMENT / IM-DEFENSORAS REGRETS CANCELLATION OF NICARAGUA VISIT FROM UN RAPPORTUER ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS’ SITUATION
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IM-Defensoras at Regional Dialogue on "An Interchange of Good Practices: New challenges for the erradication of violence agaist women”
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OAXACA / URGENT ACTION Oaxaca Network of Women Activists and Human Rights Defenders : We denounce the harassment of defenders Adriana Marcelina Linares Arroyo and Rubí Jazmín Cortés Salazar
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National Women Defenders Statement on UNAH’s rejection of Miriam Miranda as mediator in Student conflict
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Criminalization of Women Defenders in Honduras 2015-2016
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Public threats made against Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic for her defense of the territory and natural resources in Quiche province
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Lesbia Janeth Urquía slain: environmental defender and COPINH member
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Forced entry and property damage at Acción Ya Shelter
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Threats against journalists and defenders who opposed military parade
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Repression of UNAH student movement’s right to protest
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Arbitrary arrest of Francisca Ramírez and members of Mesoamerican Caravan for Good Living
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Excessive use of force against defender Bessy Rios and repression of her right to protest
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Smear campaign against Margarita Posada, National Health Forum Coordinator
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Murder of workers’ rights defender Marleni Estrada
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Arbitrary Detention; Degrading treatment, cruel and inhumane; and criminalization against Arelys Cano Meza
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#WHRDAlert MESOAMERICA / Inter-American Comission on Human Rights (IACHR) in danger of shutting downf for lack of funds.
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UN Rapporteur receives information on situation of women human rights defenders in Mexico
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MEXICO / IM-Defensoras message in solidarity with the "5th March for National Dignity: Mothers of missing children seek truth and justice"
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Berta Zúñiga Caceres and Rosalina Dominguez, of COPINH, require #JusticeForBerta in the Spanish State
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Statement of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: Two months after our comrade defender Berta Cáceres was killed
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Intimidation and death threats against Ana Mirian Romero, territorial defender of MILPAH and the Indigenous Council of San Isidro Labrador
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CARTA PÚBLICA / INACEPTABLES DECLARACIONES DEL PRESIDENTE DEL BANCO MUNDIAL, SR. JIM KIM, SOBRE ASESINATO DE BERTA CÁCERES
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization of Carolina Castillo, defender of New Armenia territory and OFRANEH member.
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Assailant kills Alejandra Padilla, #LGBTTTI human rights defender and member of the Coalition against Impunity
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Intimidation and threats against Sara Curruchich and members of Solidarity Festivals
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Attack on members of COPINH and other national and international organizations at "Berta Cáceres Vive" gathering
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / UPDATE - Criminalization against Orbelina Flores
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#WHRDAlert MEXICO / Repeated attacks against Rita Amador, Meztli Sarabia and members of UPVA “28 de octubre”
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / GRUPO MUÑECAS MEMBERS, TRANS WOMEN OF THE RAINBOW ASSOCIATION (ARCOIRIS ASSOCIATION)
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STATEMENT / IM-DEFENSORAS DEMANDS PROTECTION FOR WHRDs IN HONDURAS
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / PROTECTION FOR DEFENDERS PARTICIPATING IN DEMONSTRATIONS TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR THE KILLING OF BERTA CÁCERES
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization of Orbelina Flores Hernández
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / COPINH members in Río Lindo, Cortés
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CALL TO ACTION #8March: #Justice For Berta
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / MURDERED Berta Cáceres
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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras condemns the murder of Lenca feminist and women human rights defender Berta Cáceres and demands justice
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Criminalization against BLANCA JULIA AJTÚN and CODECA members
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Physical attack on Gabriela García and her partner Carlos Bonilla, members of the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (MDN)
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OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras expresses extreme concern over the serious risk situation faced by LGBTTTIQ rights defenders in Honduras
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Forced entry at AMIFANIC and theft of equipment containing confidential information
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / RAINBOW ASSOCIATION and #LGBTTTI human rights defenders at great risk
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#WHRDAlert MEXICO / Supporting Cristina Auerbach and the organization “Familia Pasta de Conchos”
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Assassination of WHRD Rosalinda Pérez, leader of the Blanca Caserío Barrio Nuevo community, Jocotán Chuiquimula
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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Justice for women today! #CasoSepurZarco
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Mariela Lissette Molina Peña
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012-2014 REPORT
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / New attack against WHRD Irma Lemus: Attempt on her life
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Women Human Rights Defenders of CEM-H and the Women’s Network of Colonia Cruz Roja
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Criminalization, death threats against Sonia Sanchez, defender of the territory
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Feminist Collective for Local Development and Citizen Association for the Decriminalization of Therapeutic Abortion, Ethics and Eugenics
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Acts of intimidation, harassment, and threats against Elizabeth Zúniga
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Sonia Isabel Gáleas, Gerardina Santos Hernández and Norma Suyapa Herrera
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#WHRDAlert BARILLAS (GUATEMALA) / PRISCILA SAMAYOA
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Alejandra Cabrera & Haideé Paz
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / Organizations and individuals that defend #HumanRights and #LGBTI rights
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / DILMA CONSUELO SOTO
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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / #LGBTI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER FRANCELA MENDEZ IS MURDERED
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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Radio Voice of Women
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#WHRDAlert HONDURAS / Criminalization against Gladys Lanza
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PAVING THE ROAD FOR FREEDOM & EQUALITY
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012 ASSESSMENT REPORT - SUMMARY FINDINGS
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