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By jennyaNovember 26, 2010Trauma Healing

For Cancun Climate Summit, Activists Consider the Long View

Sarah Laskow, "The Nation". A year ago, it seemed possible-likely, even-that President Barack Obama would sweep
into the international negotiations on climate change at Copenhagen and make serious
progress on the tangle of issues at stake. The reality was quite different . This
year, the expectations for the United Nations Climate Conference in Cancun are less
exuberant.

The conference will be held from Nov 29 to Dec 10 and the same issues from 2009

By jennyaNovember 26, 2010Trauma Healing

Social Movements mobilize for Climate Justice in Cancun

Social movements from around the world are mobilising for the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP 16) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that will take place in Cancun from 29 November to 10 December 2010.

By jennyaNovember 26, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Feminists in Resistance denouce Honduran State on International Day for the Prevention of Violence Against Women

NOVEMBER 25TH INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

POLITICAL STATEMENT

In commemoration of the international day for the elimination of violence against women, as feminist organizations concerned about the serious escalation of violence that wracks our country and for the high number of FEMINICIDE cases &ndash

By jennyaNovember 26, 2010Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

Nicaragua denies assertions made by Honduran Defense Minister

Vice President of Nicaragua, Jaime Morales Carazo and National Assembly President Rene Núñez, dismissed statements from Tegucigalpa that Nicaragua is training irregular troops to enter Honduras. Núñez said that assertions by Honduran Defense Minister are false and without proof. Morales stated that the border is a pourous transit point with few controls for illegal trafficking of lumber, cattle and people.

By jennyaNovember 24, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Update on Aguan

Thanks to all of you who made phone calls and sent faxes in response to the November 15^thmassacre in Aguan. The Platform of Human Rights and the Agrarian Platform of Honduras strongly condemn the brutal attack, the failure to issue arrest warrants for the killings and the militarization of the zone by the Armed Forces.

By jennyaNovember 19, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Honduran Human Rights Platform and Agrarian Platform issue Statement on Massacre in Aguan

Nov. 18, 2010 Tegucigalpa. Organizations and social movements of the Platform of Human Rights and the Agrarian Platform energetically condemn the brutal attack which members of the Campesino Movement of Aguán (MCA) were victims of on Monday, November 15, 2010 on the Tumbador farm, Trujillo, Department of Colón.

By jennyaNovember 19, 2010Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

Costa Rica annouces decison to file suit against Nicaragua in the Hague

The Costa Rican Minister of Foreign relations, Rene Castro, met with the diplomatic corps accredited in the country today to notify them of Costa Rica’s decision to file charges against Nicaragua with the International Court of Justice at the Hague for supposed violation of sovereignty and environmental damages. Costa Rica will also seek protective measures

By jennyaNovember 16, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Violence and death in the Aguán Valley Nov. 15th – Action Request to Follow

In response to the persistent violence in the Aguán Valley and the manipulative intent on the part of many communication media, we must remember important events that clarify the conflict over land tenure in what was known as the Regional Center for Military Training (CREM).

By jennyaNovember 16, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Urgent Action: Suspend US Military & Police Aid to Honduras in light of latest Aguan Massacre

Dear Friends,

Please call the State department immediately to express your concern regarding US military and police aid to the Lobo regime in light of yesterdays violence against campesino movement members in the Aguan Valley. See suggested phone script below.

By jennyaNovember 16, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Massacre of members of Peasant Movement of Aguán (MCA)

We regret to announce the terrible assassination of Ignacio Reyes (50), Teodoro Acosta (40), Siriaco Muños (56), Raúl Castillo (45) and José Luis Sauceda (32), members of the Peasant Movement of Aguán (MCA) who were brutally killed in the morning hours Monday November 15th, 2010 in Tumbador, Trujillo by hired assassins of [Honduran oligarch, U.S. ally and coup-financier] Miguel Facusse.}

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