U.S. to Open a New Military Base in Honduras
Tegucigalpa – Douglas M. Fraser, Commander of the U.S.
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Community radio stations under fire – Zacate Grande radio celebrates One year Anniversary
Community radio stations still fighting to survive
German Public Bank Cancels Financing due to Human Rights Abuses in Honduras
DEG, an investment bank of the German government based in Cologne, announced yesterday in a letter to the International Committee of FIAN that after analyzing the land conflict in Honduras’ Lower Aguán they have decided to terminate their contractual relationship with Honduras’ Dinant Corporation.
Perez Esquivel: To forget is not good for the people
The Commission of Truth met with representatives of the G-16. “To forget is not good for the people; all people have the right to truth, justice and reparation. We cannot speak of reconciliation in a vacuum; forgetting leads us to commit serious mistakes and to difficulties” stated the Commissioner of the Commission of Truth
HONDURAS: Democracy cannot be built on top of Impunity – Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Exclusive Interview with Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
International Commission of Truth Commissioners arrive in Honduras
Tegucigalpa. The Commissioners of the Commission of Truth (Comisión de Verdad – CDV – in Spanish) have arrived in Honduras to accompany the information collecting work of in-country staff, hold bilateral meetingsinternational institutions, and meet with the Supreme Court of Honduras in order to better understand their versions of events in Honduras since the Coup d’État on June 28, 2009.
Open Letter in Support of the Commission of Truth signed by 127 organizations
In March and April, the Commission of Truth is sending mobile teams throughout the county to collect new testimony and update over 2000 cases already documented by human rights organizations. The Honduras Accompaniment Project is coordinating international accompaniment for the Commission mobile teams and offices in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
1980s World Court suit against US may be refiled
President Daniel Ortega stated on March 10 that Nicaragua reserves the right to reopen its 1980s lawsuit against the United States before the International Court of Justice at The Hague (World Court). The US did not recognize and never complied with the Court’s 1986 ruling that it was illegal for the US to mine the harbor at the Port of Corinto and to prosecute the Contra War to overthrow the Sandinista Revolution. The World Court ordered the US to pay reparations, estimated at that time to be US$17 billion. Ortega said that in today’s dollars that would be US$58 billion.
URGENT ACTION: Aguan Valley Human Rights Defender Blanca Espinoza in Imminent Danger
The Honduran Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (COFADEH) repudiates the harassment and death threats directed towards human rights defender Blanca Azucena Espinoza, President of the Buenos Amigos Peasant Cooperative, in the municipality of Sabá in the department of Colón in the north of Honduras.