The Friendship Office closes this year leading a pilgrimage of 12 women to Honduras in collaboration with the Sisters of Mercy Institute Justice Team. Mercy Sisters and Institute Justice Team Director, Jean Stokan will travel first to El Salvador to commemorate the four church women murdered there in December, 1980. This December, we carry the spirit of Maura, Ita, Dorothy and Jean with us to Honduras.
This new report from the UN Rapporteur is quite troubling:
An article from ALAI reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the demise of the FTAA:
An article from ALAI reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the demise of the FTAA:
Honduras demands an international Commission against Impunity: belligerent and committed in the fight against corruption and impunity.
The presence of the General Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, has provided strong backing to the official strategy of Juan Orlando Hernandez for a national dialogue which was itself a response to the phenomena of the torchlight marches. *
Cultural Survival releases new story of Tolupanes of Locomapa whose lives are at risk and have now joined a hunger strike ‘in defense of all Honduras." This story was written by Jim Phillips, anthropologist and long term advocate for human rights and justice in Central America.
http://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/tolupanes-put-their-lives-line-defending-all-hondurans
