Friendship Office of the Americas

The Friendship Office of the Americas is a social justice organization that fosters solidarity between the peoples of Nicaragua, Honduras and the United States and pursues polices of peace and friendship.

Bolivia Proposal excluded from Cancun

Bolivian President Evo Morales lamented this Friday that his proposal as well as that of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, calling on the rich countries to halve their greenhouse gas emissions, has not been welcomed into the Cancún Summit on climate change to be held next week.

Morales indicated at a press conference that the petitions to create a Climate Justice Tribunal and to organize a global referendum on how to solve the environmental crisis, submitted by a great majority of nations, have been ignored.

Honduras media fomenting conflict with Nicaragua

Nicaragua flatly denies Honduran media reports that Nica soldiers are training and supplying guerrillas in neighboring Honduras. The Nicaraguan Army is categorically denying unsubstantiated reports in Honduras that Nicaraguan soldiers are training and supplying Honduran guerrillas in a plot to destabilize the right-wing government of Honduran President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo. Nicaraguan Army spokesman Col. Juan

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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

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