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[Urgent Alert] HONDURAS / Berta Cáceres’ daughters and son expelled from trial held behind closed doors

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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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#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 / Nicaraguan government represses right to peaceful protest against imposition of Grand Interoceanic Canal

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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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#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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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras laments the death of Gladys Lanza, long-time feminist and WHRD in Honduras

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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION

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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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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder

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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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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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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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#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 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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México D.F., 10 de mayo de 2016 - Compañeras, reciban la solidaridad y cariño de quienes integramos la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), integrada por más de 750 mujeres defensoras de Honduras, México, Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estamos hoy con ustedes, acompañando sus incansables pasos en busca de verdad y justicia por la desaparición de sus hijos e hijas y respaldando su exigencia de búsqueda inmediata de quienes les faltan infinitamente.  Estamos aquí, para decirles que son defensoras de derechos humanos y que su trabajo es fundamental para terminar con la impunidad y la crisis de violaciones a derechos humanos que enfrenta México. Sabemos que enfrentan la dolorosa y atroz omisión y negligencia de las autoridades en un estado impune y corrupto, y que hay un margen muy pequeño para esperar la respuesta diligente, humana y responsable de las autoridades que merecen.  Pero en ese pequeño margen nos unimos con ustedes, a todas sus demandas, a su dolor, pues, como millones de personas haciendo eco de la necesidad de abatir la impunidad y la indolencia que sigue generando que vivamos en un país en donde se nos separe de nuestros hijos e hijas sin respuesta alguna. De igual forma, exigimos que en esta fundamental labor de defensa de los derechos humanos que realizan se garantice su seguridad. Las acompañamos hoy, desde diversos puntos de Mesoamérica con la demanda viva, en nuestra acción política y en nuestro corazón, de que queremos a todas nuestras hijas e hijos de regreso a casa.
México D.F., 10 de mayo de 2016 - Compañeras, reciban la solidaridad y cariño de quienes integramos la Iniciativa Mesoamericana de Mujeres Defensoras de Derechos Humanos (IM-Defensoras), integrada por más de 750 mujeres defensoras de Honduras, México, Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua. Estamos hoy con ustedes, acompañando sus incansables pasos en busca de verdad y justicia por la desaparición de sus hijos e hijas y respaldando su exigencia de búsqueda inmediata de quienes les faltan infinitamente.  Estamos aquí, para decirles que son defensoras de derechos humanos y que su trabajo es fundamental para terminar con la impunidad y la crisis de violaciones a derechos humanos que enfrenta México. Sabemos que enfrentan la dolorosa y atroz omisión y negligencia de las autoridades en un estado impune y corrupto, y que hay un margen muy pequeño para esperar la respuesta diligente, humana y responsable de las autoridades que merecen.  Pero en ese pequeño margen nos unimos con ustedes, a todas sus demandas, a su dolor, pues, como millones de personas haciendo eco de la necesidad de abatir la impunidad y la indolencia que sigue generando que vivamos en un país en donde se nos separe de nuestros hijos e hijas sin respuesta alguna. De igual forma, exigimos que en esta fundamental labor de defensa de los derechos humanos que realizan se garantice su seguridad. Las acompañamos hoy, desde diversos puntos de Mesoamérica con la demanda viva, en nuestra acción política y en nuestro corazón, de que queremos a todas nuestras hijas e hijos de regreso a casa.

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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