In response to a wave of assassinations against water and land defenders in the Guapinol and Bajo Aguan areas of Honduras, 20 members of Congress led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky sent a letter to Secretary of State Blinken calling for an independent investigation into the murders and the definitive cancellation of the illegal Los Pinares
By: James Phillips In case you missed it, a recent news item tells us something significant about the uses of violence for “national security,” no matter what the cost in human lives and misery in Latin America and elsewhere. Not a pretty story, but true and important. What Was He Thinking?! Last week, President Biden
Tegucigalpa.- March 2, 2023 marked 7 years since the murder of environmental and Lenca leader, Berta Cáceres, in her home in La Esperanza, Intibucá. There is still no justice in the case of this leader who was murdered for protecting the rivers and the environment from extractivist projects that bring only more poverty and death
Tegucigalpa – On National Human Rights Day, a public celebration was held at the National Congress in which the Minister of Human Rights led various activities including the presentation of a draft of the Program of Memory, Truth, Reparation, Justice and Non-Repetition for the Reconciliation and Refoundation of Honduras to representatives of human rights organizations
“Not only am I the first woman to have the honor of leading our Central American nation, but I also represent the first democratically elected government after going through 13 years of dictatorship, the 2009 coup d’état, full of cruel assassinations and death squads, two separate electoral frauds, a pandemic and two hurricanes. It is
This month, The New England Journal of Medicine, published an important correspondence titled, Protection Associated with Previous SARS-CoV-2. (8/11/22, Vol. 387, No. 6, pp. 568-570) The research was a collaboration between the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkley to find out how effective Covid vaccine was in
Recently I had the privilege of participating as an observer at the second Encuentro Regional de Memoria (Central America Regional Gathering on Memory) which took place in Honduras May 24-27, 2022. Hosted by the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the gathering formed part of the International Week of Detained and
State of Honduras recognizes responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras in 1983 May 11, 2022 Today before the Inter American Court on Human Rights, the State of Honduras acknowledged full responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras García, union leader and member of the Communist Party and for violations of the human
San José, Costa Rica. – On Tuesday May 10th at 2:00pm, the family of social leader Herminio Deras García, will give testimony before the Inter American Court of Human Rights, 20 years after presenting the case internationally. The family of the social and political leader, Herminio Deras will speak about what they experienced during the
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