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.
Original version in Spanish can be found here on COFADEH’s human rights journalism website Defensores en línea.
Alex Main/CEPR – Dec. 28, 2011. In response to widespread concern in both the House and Senate over human rights abuses involving the Honduran police and military, the United States Congress has placed new conditions on a portion of U.S. police and military aid to Honduras.
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.
http://pablosolon.wordpress.com/(Spanish below) The Climate Change Conference ended two days later than expected, adopting a set of decisions that were known only a few hours before their adoption. Some decisions were even not complete at the moment of their consideration. Paragraphs were missing and some delegations didn’t even have copies of these drafts.
John Perry /15th December 2011– Costa Rica is renowned for its excellent environmental record, but with the construction of a 150km road beside the San Juan river it appears to be going against that reputation by causing enormous damage to the environment. See entire story –http://www.opendemocracy.net/print/63229
Original Spanish version of this statement by the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) can be found on OFRANEH’s blog.
Suggested background information:
Congressman Howard Berman released a strongly worded letter to Hillary Clinton, in which he expresses his concern about the human rights situation in Honduras. The letter goes into great detail regarding the involvement of Honduran security forces in killings, torture and other crimes and states that it is necessary "to evaluate immediately United States assistance to ensure that we are not, in fact, feeding the beast." Please see the attached letter.
