Nicaragua will no longer send troops to the School of the Americas!
Letter from Lisa Sullivan,- co-leader of SOAW delegation currently in Nicaragua:
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International Organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of Bajo Aguán, Honduras
FIAN International Sept. 3, 2011 — We, the undersigned international organisations and civil society networks, would like to express our severe concern with respect to the recent acts of repression, violence and criminalization of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguán.
November Delegation to Honduras – Friendship Office and Witness for Peace
COFADEH Committee of the Relatives of the Detained Disappeared in Honduras PERSONAL SAFETY OF DETAINEES AT RISK: CAMPESINOS ARRESTED AFTER PROTEST VIOLENTLY CRUSHED ARE BEING HELD INCOMMUNICADO BY TIGRE BONILLA´S SUBORDINATES The physical safety of Aguan campesinos, arrested when their protest was violently crushed, is under at risk. They are being held incommunicado in Metropolitan In July and August, PROAH (Honduras Accompaniment Project/Proyecto de Acompañamiento Internacional en Honduras) welcomed two new accompaniers to our team based in Tegucigalpa. Brigitte Gynther is sponsored by SOAW* and Andreas Hugentobler-Alvarez by Peace Watch Switzerland to work with PROAH. For Immediate Release: August 15, 2012 TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 14 (Reuters) By Gustavo Palencia – The Honduran government must investigate the cases of 22 journalists murdered in the last two years in a country that has the world’s highest murder rate, a United Nations envoy said on Tuesday. Frank La Rue, a U.N. special freedom of expression rapporteur, also demanded that President On June 22, Accompaniment Organizations working in Central America sent an "Open Letter to the distinguished members of the international diplomatic corps and international organizations with a presence in or focus on Honduras" outlining concerns about threats received by international accompaniers of PROAH and the recent increase in attacks on human rights defenders in Honduras. See letter attached. The post-summit pledge was an admission of defeat against consumer capitalism. But we can still salvage the natural world.
COFADEH URGENT ACTION: Detainees at risk. Incomunicado/in custody of subordinates of el Tigre Bonilla
COFADEH URGENT ACTION: Campesinos repressed and arbitrarily detained
COMMITTEE OF THE FAMILIES OF THE DETAINED AND
DISSAPPEARED OF HONDURAS (COFADEH)
PROAH Welcomes New Accompaniers
New Investigative Report into DEA Related Killings in Honduras
Contact: Dan Beeton, 202-239-1460
U.N. envoy tells Honduras to better protect its journalists
Open Letter to Diplomatic Corps in response to death threats recieved by the Honduras Accompaniment Project
After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet