Human Rights Network of Rio Grande do Norte
The Human Rights Network, RN
(REDH-RN) is the first collection of organizations in Brazil to think about the
Federation as a unified whole, attempting to reach all the districts in Rio
Grande do Norte (RN) with one demand: Human
Rights for all Potiguares*!
The Network is a combination
of organizations, social movements, and institutions within Rio Grande do
Norte that work in the human rights field, as much civil and political, as
social, economic, cultural and environmental. Its principle objective is to
create Human Rights bodies comprised of public officials, members of political
parties, churches, media, etc. in all of the 167 districts of RN. Its mission
is to put an end to human rights violations against the people, inform and
mobilize the local citizens, and put forth denunciations; in short, to promote
the human rights of all the people in Rio Grande do Norte.
The organization that
conceived of this project and which is putting the REDH-RN into effect is the
Center for Human Rights and Popular Memory (CDHMP) of Natal (Rua Vigário
Bartolomeu, 635—Ed. “21 de Março,” salas
606/607—CEP 59025-100—Natal/RN—Phone: 0xx84 221-5932—Fax: 0xx 201-0242—E-mail: cdhmp@dhnet.org.br, cdhmp@hotmail.com).
*Potiguar is the Portuguese term used to describe those
originally from Rio Grande do Norte, the northeast of Brazil.
