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Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: 2022 — Preliminary data

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Migratory repression and banishment for defending rights in Nicaragua

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Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: July/August 2022 -- Preliminary monthly data

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“What would you do to hug your daughter?” Campaign launched in solidarity with Tamara Dávila, who may be on a hunger strike demanding to see her daughter

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Registry of Aggressions against Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders: June 2022 – Preliminary monthly data for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.

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Registry of Aggressions against Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders: April 2022 - Preliminary monthly data for El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua.

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Colectivo 46/2 welcome the establishment of an accountability mechanism for Nicaragua during the 49th session of the Human Rights Council

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HONDURAS / International Forum calls for immediate release and reparations for defenders of the Guapinol River

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International feminist solidarity in the face of the illegal cancellation of women’s rights supporter organizations or feminist organizations in Nicaragua.

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Today more than ever, we must care for ourselves collectively and heal together

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We denounce the alarming deterioration of human rights in El Salvador.

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[Joint Statement] Mexico: Harassment of journalists and migrant rights defenders in Chiapas

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[STATEMENT] The Nicaraguan government harasses, criminalizes, attacks, imprisons and exiles women struggling for a better country.

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More than 60 Civil society organisations denounce the alarming deterioration of human rights situation in El Salvador

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Civil society organizations in the region reject the capture of the Constitutional Court and the Attorney General's Office in El Salvador and warn that the principle of separation of powers in the country is being affected.

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We demand a March 8th free from repression and patriarchal violence!

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[STATEMENT] National, regional, and international human rights and feminist organizations call for solidarity with our allies from the Uganda Women's Network, "UWONET," and the Uganda National NGO Forum makes an urgent call to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing their work.

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Letter from mesoamerican women defenders to Marisela Escobedo

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People’s Assembly of Cuisnahuat attains halt in construction of shopping center

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Costa Rica: International organisations call for an end to violence and impunity against indigenous human rights defenders

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Nicaraguan authorities’ repression of activists, human rights defenders, and journalists intensifies

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El Salvador: Organizations express concern about the increase in digital violence against Women Human Rights Defenders

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OPEN LETTER TO DANIEL ORTEGA, PRESIDENT OF NICARAGUA, SENT BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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Statement by Civil Society Organizations on the Occasion of the New Resolution to be Voted on by the UN Human Rights Council: “Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in Nicaragua”

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Statement of the National Network for Women’s Human Rights in Honduras on the current political crisis.

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[STATEMENT] International Forum Will Monitor the Human Rights Situation in Honduras During the COVID-19 Emergency

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369 women defenders make connections to talk about life

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[PRONOUNCEMENT] National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras speaks on COVID-19 crisis

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[PRONOUNCEMENT] COVID-19: In the midst of this crisis, it is urgent to halt authoritarianism and defend life, care, rights and human dignity.

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#UrgentAlert PHILLIPINES / Solidarity with Cristina Palabay, criminalized for defending Human Rights

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[PRESS RELEASE] Attacks against women defenders on the rise: another huge Mesoamerican epidemic

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We condemn the political repression against the Ayotzinapa mothers in the state of Chiapas

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National and international organizations condemn the passage of the NGO Law and urge a presidential veto in order to guarantee basic rights.

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Marcala speaks out against extractivism and declares the town free of mining and power plants

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Informational newsletter, January 31, 2020: Honduran Network develops Seminar for Analysis of National Situation

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Human rights organizations back OHCHR report on highly serious human rights violations in Honduras.

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[STATEMENT] National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: We’re women, we´re feminists, we´re rights defenders, we’re Honduran.

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Human rights organizations recognize OHCHR’s work in Honduras

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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Psychological torture and cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment of political prisoner Neyma Hernández

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[STATEMENT] 29N 2019 International Women Human Rights Defenders Day: In turbulent times Mesoamerican defenders sow seeds of change

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ALERT TO THE INTERNACIONAL COMMUNITY: Today pain and rage pierce the skin of our Latin America once more

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NICARAGUA ALERT 17/11/2019

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Police arrest activists supporting mothers of political prisoners who are on hunger strike in San Miguel Arcángel Church in Masaya

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Arbitrary arrest of Keyla María Flores by police and paramilitary agents

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“In Nicaragua nothing is normal”: organizations present evidence that human rights crisis in the country is still in effect

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JOB POSITION / Finance Officer for IM-Defensoras

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Miriam Miranda: “Our people face an extermination plan”

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IM-Defensoras Driving Group Meeting: Looking towards 2020

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Siege and threats against released women political prisoners

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#WHRDAlert EL SALVADOR / No more trans genocide! No more hate crimes against LGBTI+ people!

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UGANDA / Brutal attack against Mollie Siperia, student leader at Makerere University

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Concerns raised over Esraa Abdel Fattah’s state of health during prison hunger strike

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Stop the extermination of WHRDs and leaders in Colombia!

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Stop militarization and the repression of social protests in Chile!

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We congratulate mexican journalist Marcela Turati, 2019 Moors Cabot Prize

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Stop the abduction and human right violations of Women Defenders in Egypt

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[STATEMENT] ¡Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders say NO to the attack against the Kurdish community!

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PARAGUAY / ANTI-RIGHTS GROUPS ATTACK MARCH HELD BY #LGBTI COLLECTIVES

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HONDURAS / We celebrate the award of the LETELIER-MOFFITT PRIZE to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common Public Assets in Tocoa Colón.

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Government represses peaceful protests with excessive use of force and para-police groups

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GUATEMALA / The defender Juana Ramírez is commemorated and justice is demanded for her femicide

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SOLIDARITY WITH FEMINISTS CRIMINALIZED for Anarchist Sisterhood’s Sacred Defiant Cunt and Burial of Socio-Labour Rights Procession in Spanish State

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We congratulate the Oaxacan feminist movement for its historic achievement of the decriminalization of abortion in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

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We congratulate Nansen Refugee Award Winner Bianka Rodríguez

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Recognition of the Solecito Collective

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#WHRDAlert GUATEMALA / Break-in at Petén Ixqik Women’s Association

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[CALL TO ACTION] #DefendamosVallecito: Solidarity and engagement with the Garífuna community of Vallecito and OFRANEH

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#UrgentAlert MEXICO / Smear and criminalization campaign against feminist defenders

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[STATEMENT] Disturbing risk situation of women human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Harassment of COPINH: Maize crops destroyed in Rio Blanco community

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[STATEMENT] National and international organizations condemn acts of repression against girls, boys, teenagers and young people protesting in Honduras

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National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: “More women in Santa Barbara Environmental Movement (MAS)”

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[MEXICO] WHRDs from 12 states meet to strengthen daily activities of Network of Women Defenders in Mexico

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[INFOGRAPHIC] HONDURAS: Ten years after the Coup d'Etat

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#WHRDAlert COLOMBIA / Assailants kill María del Pilar Hurtado, defender of the right to decent housing

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Government represses demonstrators: At least two dead and dozens wounded, mainly by firearms

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[STATEMENT] The government of Nicaragua intends to give a false closure to the serious political and human rights crisis, but there are still political prisoners and repression and violence continue by the police, paramilitary forces and political operators

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[STATEMENT] Stop the repression of social protest in Honduras!

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[STATEMENT] Serious infringements of the right to mobilization and social protest persist in Nicaragua

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[STATEMENT] #SetThemFree Campaign / Nicaragua: We demand freedom for all political prisoners and an end to acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated against them

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[STATEMENT] National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras backs defender Reina Rivera Joya

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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF COLOMBIAN DEFENDER FRANCIA MÁRQUEZ, GOLDMAN PRIZE WINNER 2018

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Stand in solidaity with Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa, Ugandan #WHRD

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Fifth National Women Defenders Encounter Held in El Salvador

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Being a woman defender in México means running high risks on a daily basis

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INFOGRAPHY / NICARAGUA: SITUATION OF WOMEN HUMANS RIGHTS DEFENDERS ONE YEAR FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS

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Defending Guapinol to live well

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NASRIN SOTOUDEH: We demand her release!

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We congratulate the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico, winner of Faces for Equality Award

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Eight women political prisoners launch hunger strike in La Esperanza prison

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GOOD NEWS! Freedom and definitive acquittal for Lourdes Gómez and all other defenders of common assets in Guapinol

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IM-Defensoras organizes Advocacy Week for Women Defenders at 40th Session of UN Human Rights Council

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CALL TO ACTION – March 8th Free Women Political Prisoners in Nicaragua!

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STATEMENT / Doing #FeministJusticeForBerta three years after her seed was sown

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SORORITY / MEXICO: Dominga is free!

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We lament the death of WHRD Caroline Mwatha in Kenya, caused by structural violence against women

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STATEMENT / We demand freedom for Ruth Matute, political prisoner in Nicaragua!

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"Tengo la palabra" (We have the voice): Resistance in Honduras

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Outset of International Feminist Solidarity Mission with Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: “The Embrace.”

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International Organisations Establish 'International Observatory of the Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua'

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WE CELEBRATE IMELDA’S FREEDOM!

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#UrgentAlert GUATEMALA / GOVERNMENT DECREES ILLEGAL EXPULSION OF 11 CICIG MEMBERS FROM COUNTRY

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STATEMENT of the National Network of WHRD in Mexico: #WithoutDefendersThere’sNoMovement

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#29N #16Days Statement of the Salvadoran Network of Women Human Rights Defenders

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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / POLICE RAID BUILDINGS OF Leadership Institute of the Segovias, POPOL NA, River Foundation, IPADE, Confidencial, CENIDH and CISAS

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STATEMENT / As feminist movements of Latin America and the Caribbean we demand an immediate end to the criminalization of the feminist movement and of social movements in Nicaragua

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STATEMENT / IM-DEFENSORAS DENOUNCES THE ILLEGAL EXPULSION FROM NICARAGUA OF NICARAGUAN WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AND CITIZEN ANA QUIRÓS

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NOVEMBER 29TH STATEMENT INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS: Seeds of Change Defenders Confront Death Policies

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MANIFESTO #WHRDSeedsOfChange

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IM-Defensoras Driving Group meets in Guatemala

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Human Rights Defenders World Summit 2018 - Pronouncement of Session on Women Human Rights Defenders

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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras stand in solidarity with COPINH and the family of Berta Cáceres in denouncing the judicial farce and regime of impunity regarding her political femicide

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WORDS ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO EMBRACE, AND IN THE NETWORK, THE WOMEN OF HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA EMBRACE EACH OTHER AND STRUGGLE TOGETHER

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STATEMENT / The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras hereby denounces the campaign of disparagement, criminalization and racism promoted by extractive companies

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We’ve Had Enough: A Call to Action to Protect Women Human Rights Defenders & their Communities

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IM-Defensoras and national networks meets with women defenders in Mesoamerica and Colombia

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IM-DEFENSORAS STRONGLY CONDEMS THE REPRESSION AND ARBITRARY DETENTION OF PROTESTERS IN NICARAGUA ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, 2018

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Women defenders in Guerrero join forces to combat attacks

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National Women Defender Network demands feminist justice for Berta Cáceres through political, artistic and cultural events and actions

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STATEMENT National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras / Justice for Berta, Feminist Justice

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PRONOUNCEMENT / We condemn the revocation of the CICIG mandate and demand guarantees for the security and rights of the persons, rights defenders and organizations affected

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EL SALVADOR / March in repudiation of murder of Dina Puente, defender from Jujutla Ahuachapan

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Women defenders in the vanguard of the struggles for justice and democracy in Nicaragua

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Women defenders in Michoacán construct security protocols with feminist focus

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In Monterrey meeting women defenders construct security protocols that reinforce their struggles

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In Honduras, defenders begin process of diagnosing needs to strengthen IM-Defensoras national networks

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PRONOUNCEMENT / The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras hereby expresses our deepest indignation over the use of the words and image of our sister and compañera in struggle, Berta Cáceres, by the illegitimate ruling government of this country

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SISTERHOOD / We demand justice for the murder of Rayneia Lima in Nicaragua

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NICARAGUA / WE DENOUNCE THE DISMISSAL OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FOR ATTENDING TO DEMONSTRATORS in the Oscar Danilo Rosales School Hospital (HEODRA), property of the State of León.

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IM-Defensoras participates in high-level events in New York on 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

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Veracruz Front for Life and Women’s Rights: Sentinel for the rights of women

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STATEMENT / National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: Nine years of coup and resistance

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Self-Care Gathering of Guatemalan Women Human Rights Defender Network

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International Feminist Solidarity Day with Nicaragua

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Women Human Rights Defenders from 15 organizations meet on Yucatan Peninsula to map out security and self-care routes

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FREE THE DEFENDERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA!

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STATEMENT / The National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico visits Dominga, woman human rights defender of water sentenced to 50 years in prison

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OPEN LETTER / IM-DEFENSORAS DEEPLY CONCERNED OVER STIGMATIZATION AND RE-CRIMINALIZATION OF DEFENDER NESTORA SALGADO

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#WHRDAlert NICARAGUA / Smear campaign, criminalization and harassment against Jessica Cisneros, Yerling Aguilera and Madeleine Caracas

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#SOSNicaragua We demand effective compliance by the Nicaraguan government with the recommendations adopted by the IACHR and end its campaign of repression against the civilian population and withdraw the protection and impunity given to paramilitary groups

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Women of the Molina Theissen family win historic sentence in Guatemala

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Preliminary IACHR report documents disproportionate use of force during demonstrations in Nicaragua in April of 2018

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Defend in order to Live: 2016-2017 report on the situation of women defenders in Honduras

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Conclusion of European tour to present 2015-16 Assessment Report on Attacks against Women Defenders

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IM-DEFENSORAS PRESENTS IN EUROPE REPORT ON ATTACKS AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA

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INFOGRAPHICS / What’s happening in Nicaragua?

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STATEMENT / We hereby condemn the violent repression of the demonstrations held in Nicaragua against the Social Security reforms, and we demand respect for the legitimate right to protest of Nicaraguan women and men

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OPEN LETTER / We condemn the sexual abuse suffered by Mexican defender Ximena Ramos at the Summit of the Americas

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#WHRDAlert SYSTEMATIC THREATS AGAINST WOMEN DEFENDERS OF THE SANTA BARBARA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT (MAS)

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Gender Identity Bill presented in El Salvador

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VIDEO / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL

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OPEN LETTER / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL

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Philippines government criminalizes UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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#WHRDAlert BRAZIL / Assailants kill Marielle Franco, feminist and defender of the rights of Afrodescendant peoples

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Cristina Auerbach and the Pasta de Conchos Family Organization: 12 years of a commitment to human rights in mining town in Coahuila, México

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UN Rapporteur Michel Forst meets with Salvadoran defenders

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Michel Forst, Human Rights Rapporteur in Nicaragua; A long awaited visit

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RNDDHM members meet with UN Rapporteur

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Second National Encounter of Women Human Rights Defenders

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OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras urges UN and IACHR Rapporteurs on Human Rights Defenders to demand an end to State violence and repression in the post-electoral context in Honduras

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#WHRDAlertHONDURAS / Stop the repression associated with the National Strike against electoral fraude

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STATEMENT National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico / #29November. In Mexico, an attack every day against women defenders

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National Women Defenders Network in Guatemala grows and consolidates work in 14 areas of the country

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IM-DEFENSORAS STATEMENT RESTABLISHMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES IN HONDURAS NOW! IMMEDIATE END TO REPRESSION! DEMOCRACY AND RESPECT FOR VOTE!

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IM-DEFENSORAS STATEMENT / NOVEMBER 29TH: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

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STATEMENT National Network for Women Human Rights in México / Yndira Raped by Agents of the State

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STATEMENT by National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico: Justice Denied Four Years after Assassination of Rocío Mesino

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Roundtable on Right to Defend Human Rights presents bill for defender protection with comprehensive, gender-based perspective

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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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IM-Defensoras at the Dublin Platform

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IN-Defensoras Participates in Workshop with National Environmental Movement against Industrial Mining (MONAFMI)

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OPEN LETTER / Repression and criminalization worsens against social movements and women human rights defenders in Honduras

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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people

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CALL TO ACTION IN SUPPORT OF HONDURAN WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

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HONDURAS / NEW ATTEMPT AGAINST SAFETY OF MIRTHA GUTIÉRREZ

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MEXICO / National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico denounces intimidation and harassment against defender Jaqueline Campbell

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HONDURAS / ALERT: Prosecution of Cristian Marisol Hernandez Pineda and four other members of Boulevard Neighbors

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Statement of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras against repression of inhabitants of Villa de San Francisco

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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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AWID: "Weaving resistance through action: Strategies of WHRDs confronting extractivism and corporate power"

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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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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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NICARAGUA: Demanding equal rights, with LGBTIQ pride

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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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STATEMENT National Network of WHRDs in Mexico / We demand justice for the extrajudicial execution of Meztli Sarabia and effective protection for her family and UPVA members

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We congratulate the Center for Women's Rights (CDM) of Honduras on its 25th anniversary

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STATEMENT National Network of WHRD in Mexico / We condemn sexually related death threats against journalist Sanjuana Martínez

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Fourth State Meeting of Women Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Oaxaca

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Ambasadors’ Mission and UN Women visit La Serena House in Mexico and recognize work of women human rights defenders

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Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land, Territory and Environment

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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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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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Women human rights defenders gather in Guatemala

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OPEN LETTER / National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Mexico (RNDDHM) condemns illegal detention, physical and psychological torture, and temporary forced disappearance of defender Cristina Erandeni Parades Lachino

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GOOD NEWS! / IACHR ACCEPTS CASE OF MANUELA, the Salvadoran woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage

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Women defending their territories; voices of resistance in Nicaragua

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CALL TO ACTION / APRIL 25 - TWITTER STORM FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN HONDURAS

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SORORITY / #LawPassed #ElSalvadorFreeOfMetalMining

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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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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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Berta didn’t die, she multiplied...

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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group

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“Berta lives on, COPINH is strong” - COPINH calls for month of actions

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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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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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NEWS / First oficial visit of Rapporteur Michel Forst to Mexico

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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action

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STATEMENT / November 29th - International Women Human Rights Defenders Day

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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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International seminar held in Spanish State: Weaving Webs for the Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders

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NEWS / IM-Defensoras co-organizes International Seminar “Weaving webs to protect women human rights defenders” to be held in the Spanish State

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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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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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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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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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UN Women and IM-Defensoras publish Spanish language edition of UN General Assembly Resolution on Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and Individual Women’s Rights Defenders

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#URGENTAlert EL SALVADOR / Surveillance and intimidation against Bertha de León and Pedro José Cruz

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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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