In January 2018, 50 Religious Leaders participated in an Emergency Delegation to Honduras in response requests for international presence in the context of the post electoral crisis. Eight religious denominations were represented by the 40+ faith groups and human rights organizations that sent delegates from 13 states in the U.S. Please download the delegations Executive Summary Report and share with your members of Congress.
On the 2nd anniversary of the murder of Berta Caceres, her daughter and namesake writes and open letter: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/we-will-achieve-real-just…
Open Letter on International Womens’ Day from Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (Cofadeh), who remembers that organizations like hers that have been demanding truth related to the violations of human rights committed in the 1980s for decades, are comprised mostly of women who make the world termble.
An Emergency Ecumenical Delegation including religious leaders representing 8 denominations from the United States and Canada traveled to Honduras from January 24 -30, 2018. The emergency delegation was organized in response to a call from Fr. Melo, SJ of Radio Progreso, to the international community to bear witness to the post-electoral crisis in Honduras.The delegation was received in San Pedro Sula by representatives from Honduran communities who held a vigil in the airport lobby to commemorate those killed in the post electoral violence to date. During their week stay, the delegation heard testimony from victims and family members of state sponsored repression, witnessed repression of peaceful demonstrations by U.S. funded Honduran state security forces, participated in a Way of the Cross, a candlelight vigil in front of the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa and met with the U.S. Embassy Chargé d’Affaires, Heidi Fulton, to present the delegations concerns regarding U.S. policy, the human rights crisis and rupture of democratic process.Press coverage of the delegation: https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/militarized-honduras-delegation-s… https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/31/headlines/honduras_american_faith… https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/01/26/honduran-rel… https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2018/01/27/honduras-amid-abuses-of-d…
II Report from COFADEH (Committee of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras) documenting human rights violations in the post-electoral crisis. This report covers the period Nov. 26 – Dec. 31, 2017.
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Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017
The New York Times published a new article on the intellectual authorship behind Berta Cáceres' assassination. An international legal team has investigated her murder and presented their findings in Honduras this week.
While Donald Trump gives the appearance of wavering over his decision to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Nicaragua has decided to sign it. It was one of only two countries not to sign in Paris last year; the other was Syria. Nicaragua abstained out of principle: the agreement didn’t go far enough. The target – to keep the average global temperature no more than 2ºC above pre-industrial levels – was too high, and in any case unlikely to be met.
Rep. Kaptur issused a statement of concern in response to an escalation of risk for human rights defenders in Honduras following intimidation and public threats to Fr. Ismael Moreno, SJ, Bertha Oliva and the Caceres family. In her statement, Rep. Kaptur underscores the responsibility to speak out on behalf of those at risk and to support the Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act – HR-1299.
