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.

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Commission of Truth launches website

The Commission of Truth launched its website today in a press conference with the Commissioners who have been in the country since Saturday for a series of work sessions,  meetings with victims of human rights abuses in different parts of the country, and other national and international actors and organizations.  They have held regular press conferences to communicate their plans, progress and concerns.  For more information visit : Commission of Truth : http://comisiondeverdadhonduras.org/

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Environment and Ecology

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.

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Honduras Accompaniment Project

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.

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Representative Schakowsky and Senator Markey Lead Call for Accountability in US Support for Honduras Government

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…

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