Canadian Prime Minister Trades in Human Rights for Economic Concessions in Honduras
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Honduran congress representatives reported to collude with transnational mining companies
These reports are particularly worrying in light of the current criminalization of members of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee and community members of El Porvenir and El Suyatal working to protect vital remaining forests and watersheds in their communities which also happened to be concessioned to transnational mining companies – reportedly Canadian companies.
Victims of the Coup d'État March in the Capital
Starting at 8:00am on Thursday, June 28th in Tegucigalpa, thousands of demonstrators met at the Pedagogical University and marched to the offices of the United Nations to make their denunciations.
URGENT Action for Spanish Speakers (to start IMMEDIATELY)
(Follow up to International letter to halt criminalization against environmental defenders in Honduras sent July 14th, 2011, see more info here.)
Victims' Relatives Protest at Ministry of the Attorney General
July 26th at 10:00 am, relatives and friends of Isy Obed Murillo, Ilse Ivannia Velásquez, Roger Vallejo, Félix Murillo, Mario Fidel Contreras, Manuel Flores, Karen Jessenia Hernández, Walter Tróchez, Julio Fúnex, Pedro MAgdiel Muñoz and Pablo Villanueva, 11 victims assassinated after the coup d’état on June 28, 2009, staged a demonstration in front of the offices of the Ministry of the Attorney General (Ministerio Público) in Tegucigalpa.
COPINH: Impunity and Human Rights Violations Reign in Honduras
CIVIC COUNCIL OF POPULAR AND INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF HONDURAS (COPINH)
International Organizations call for halt of criminalization against environmental defenders in Honduras
On July 5th, environmental activists from Valle de Siria, Carlos Amador and Marlon Hernández, were captured by police based on a warrant for their arrest issued by a local judge for the crime of “opposing logging carried out by the Raudales family”.
International Organizations call for halt of criminalization against environmental defenders in Honduras
On July 5th, environmental activists from Valle de Siria, Carlos Amador and Marlon Hernández, were captured by police based on a warrant for their arrest issued by a local judge for the crime of “opposing logging carried out by the Raudales family”.
HONDURAS: VIOLENT FORCED EVICTION LEAVES FAMILIES AT RISK
Amnesty International Urgent Alert: Police have forcibly evicted 114 families, including young children, from a community in northern Honduras. Around 80 people are now living in a nearby community centre in unsanitary conditions that pose a risk to their health.
Ongoing murders and grave human rights violations in El Bajo Aguán
On July 11th 2011, FIDH, APROEV, CIFCA, FIAN International, IUF and Via Campesina International presented at the European Parliament the conclusions and recommendations from the report of the international fact finding mission to Bajo Aguán valley, which took place from February 26th to March 4th 2011. They denounced the continuation of murders and grave human rights violations in Honduras.