Testimony of Bertha Oliva at IAHRC March 15, 2013
Testimony of Bertha Oliva at the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights on March 15, 2013. Only currently available in Spanish
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Rep. Farr sends new "Dear Colleague" letter about death squads
On March 22, Rep. Sam Farr sent this recent AP article about death squads out as a Dear Colleague letter:
A Murder Every 74 Minutes
According to official records, there were 54 murders in Honduras on Christmas Eve. With a violent death every 74 minutes, a rate that more than doubled over Christmas, the country is four times more dangerous than Mexico. In 2012, 7172 murders were recorded. That&rs
US military expands its drug war in Latin America
AP just released a very interesting story which includes substantial material on Honduras. Here is the link:
Religious Delegation to Honduras releases it's Report
In December in 2012, we teamed with the Sister of Mercy to take a delegation of U.S.
Letter to Secretary of State Kerry from 58 members of Congress
Rep. Johnson, 57 colleagues call for investigation into DEA-related killings in Honduras
Members call for review of counter-drug operations affecting Afro-Indigenous communities
Drumbeats Answer Gunshots: Garífunas struggle to protect lands under threat in Honduras
Triunfo de la Cruz, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, seems idyllic – a white sand, palm-lined beach, and children playing in the surf. However, it is one of many sites in a long-running battle for the land and culture of the Garífuna people, descendants of Afro-indigenous people from St Vincent who were exiled to the Honduran coast by the British in the 18th century.
Environment and Ecology
The Friendship Office promotes policies that address the structural causes of climate change. We realize that the valiant community based development and reforestation efforts that we support can literally be swept away without binding global policies.
Honduras Accompaniment Project
The Honduras Accompaniment Project (HAP)/Proyecto de Acompanamiento en Honduras (PROAH) provides international accompaniment for social movement leaders, human rights defenders and the Honduran people in resistance in their historic non-violent struggle to resist the June 20009 coup de tat and to transform their society. We sponsor US/Canadian Human Rights Accompaniment Delegations to increase the international presence and help to get information out. We place long and short term accompaniers to accompany specific individuals/organizations who request and require it.
Representative Schakowsky and Senator Markey Lead Call for Accountability in US Support for Honduras Government
In a letter to President Trump signed by 50 House and Senate colleagues, Rep. Schakowsky and Senator Markey led a call to the US government for accountability in its support for the Honduran government in light of growing threats against human rights defenders, journalists and international observers in Honduras. A press release for the letter states, “The United States should not be aiding any government that fails to hold violators of human rights accountable, or worse, perpetrates these violations. Continued support of the government of John Orlando Hernandez without continued checks on its behavior will only fuel the destruction of the rule of law, cripple an already devastated economy and allow for a pervasive fear among the Honduran people which are, not coincidentally, the very factors leading to the mass migration of ordinary citizens from Honduras that we are currently witnessing. See the full Press Release and link to the letter here.
https://schakowsky.house.gov/press-releases/representative-schakowsky-an…