The Friendship Office promotes policies that address the structural causes of climate change. We realize that the valiant community based development and reforestation efforts that we support can literally be swept away without binding global policies.
The Honduras Accompaniment Project (HAP)/Proyecto de Acompanamiento en Honduras (PROAH) provides international accompaniment for social movement leaders, human rights defenders and the Honduran people in resistance in their historic non-violent struggle to resist the June 20009 coup de tat and to transform their society. We sponsor US/Canadian Human Rights Accompaniment Delegations to increase the international presence and help to get information out. We place long and short term accompaniers to accompany specific individuals/organizations who request and require it.
In a letter to President Trump signed by 50 House and Senate colleagues, Rep. Schakowsky and Senator Markey led a call to the US government for accountability in its support for the Honduran government in light of growing threats against human rights defenders, journalists and international observers in Honduras. A press release for the letter states, “The United States should not be aiding any government that fails to hold violators of human rights accountable, or worse, perpetrates these violations. Continued support of the government of John Orlando Hernandez without continued checks on its behavior will only fuel the destruction of the rule of law, cripple an already devastated economy and allow for a pervasive fear among the Honduran people which are, not coincidentally, the very factors leading to the mass migration of ordinary citizens from Honduras that we are currently witnessing. See the full Press Release and link to the letter here.
https://schakowsky.house.gov/press-releases/representative-schakowsky-an…
At the end of this post is an English translation of a press release by the Platform for Action in for Youth Rights in Honduras (Plataforma de Acción en Pro de los Derechos Juveniles de Honduras) released yesterday, October 15, 2010.
The entry of U.S. troops into Costa Rica is a threat to Latin AmericaWe would like to express our strong rejection of the decision by Laura Chinchilla’s government to allow the entry of 7000 marines and 46 warships into Costa Rica from July 1 to December 31, 2010 under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.
Friday, July 2010 20:04 COFADEH
Witnessing Resistance in Honduras
Quixote Centre Honduras Delegation update July 1st, 2010
Caitlin Power Hancey, Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN)
The Honduran resistance movement is real—it is also strong, diverse, and decidedly non-violent.
