URGENT ACTION: Journalist in danger – Repeated Threats and Persecution (COFADEH)
Versión original publicado en español aquí.
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URGENT ACTION: Journalist in danger – Repeated Threats and Persecution (COFADEH)
Versión original publicado en español aquí.
URGENT ACTION: New Proposed Mining Law in Honduras (English & Spanish)
Please see the Urgent Action request below (and attached sample letters below) from Pedro Landa of CEHPRODEC, who along with other groups (including the Environmental Committee of the Siria Valley, who has been fighting against the activities of Goldcorp for years and who’s leaders have visited Canada a number of times regarding this issue), are closely monitoring and strongly oppose the new proposed Mining Law.
COPINH: Statement on the Imminent Approval of New Mining and Hydrocarbons Law
Original Spanish version is below. Please also see related URGENT ACTION and send a letter to the Honduran Congress today!
COPINH – Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras
All original reports now available on our blogs
All original reports from the Honduras Accompaniment Project since March 2011 are available in English and in Spanish on our blogs:
Español: http://proah.wordpress.com/
URGENT ACTION: Free José Isabel Morales Lopez (Chavelo) of MCA Now
Below is an English translation (by La Voz de los de Abajo) of an Urgent Action for Chavelo Morales, a member of one of the campesino movements of the Aguán (MCA) who has been in prison for 3 years in La Ce
The Banana Coast project and the Expulsion of Garífuna from the Bay of Trujillo (OFRANEH)
OFRANEH (Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) has recently posted this 11min video with interviews with community leaders and residents sharing their analysis and opinion about Canadian investors moving in on their territory and national and international plans for a Model City in Trujillo Bay, without any consultation.
Urgent Action: Honduran State Is Failing to Guarantee the Security of its Citizens (COFADEH)
Original version in Spanish can be found here on COFADEH’s human rights journalism website Defensores en línea.
In the Aguán a baby Jesus will be born in the midst of repression
Original version of this article in Spanish can be found on the Mio Aguán blog here.
In the Aguán a baby Jesus will be born in the midst of repression
The Permanent International Observatory for Human Rights in the Aguán once again denounces the climate of repression prevailing in the Aguán Valley on the north coast of Honduras.