Friendship Office of the Americas – Page 49 – A social justice organization that fosters solidarity between the peoples of Nicaragua, Honduras and the United States and pursues polices of peace and friendship.

By jennyaJune 30, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Accompaniment Delegation Report from Honduras

HONDURAS DELEGATION JUNE 2010

How to summarize such a rich, broad deep experience?

Rather than focusing on the legal and economic struggle that were both used and abused as a rationale for the coup, let’s meet some of the very diverse individuals that were involved in the myriad of organizations and coalitions that were part of the Frente – National Front for Popular Resistance (NFRP).

The Committee of Families of the Detained and Disappeared (COFADEH) was founded in 1980 reached out to youth in 20

By jennyaJune 29, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Video: Commission of Truth Installation

See Video of Installation of the Commission of Truth

By tomlJune 26, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Which “Truth” will the world support in Honduras?

Honduras delegation update – June 25, 2010

By tomlJune 25, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, News Flashes

Just released letter to Clinton from 27 Congresspeople

Hot off the presses, there’s a new letter just out to Sec. of State Hillary Clinton on human rights violations in Honduras. It comes from 27 US congressmen who, contrary to the Secretary’s statements in Lima earlier this month, maintain that "political violence continues to wrack Honduras" one year after the June 28, 2009 coup. According to the legislators, they write to:

By tomlJune 24, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

The National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) expresses it’s support for the Commission of Truth promoted by the Human Rights Platform of Honduras.

The National Resistance Front is looking for truth, the application of justice and the restitution for the victims who have had their human rights violated during the de facto regimes that were imposed by force subsequent to the military coup d’état on June 28, 2009.

By tomlJune 16, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

ITUC Press Release on Escalating Violence

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION

Honduras: Violence and Human Rights Violations Escalate

Brussels, 15 June 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Honduras is immersed in a very worrying spiral of violence, and the international trade union movement remains on the alert for human rights violations. Being a trade unionist or part of the Resistance Front implies major risks in the Honduras of today. Various trade union and community leaders have faced death threats and attempts on their lives over recent weeks.

By jennyaJune 14, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Accompanying Radio Progreso and ERIC – Progreso, Honduras

It is early on Friday morning. I’m hoping I can post something while I’m at the radio this morning. I won’t have a chance again until Monday, since this afternoon I leave for El Aguan for a weekend of workshops on political formation with a team from ERIC (Team for Reflection, Research and Communication). Aguan has been involved in a protracted land struggle so it should be an interesting trip. It is inspiring to meet people who are committed and savvy and giving their all to defend their rights.

By tomlJune 9, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectNews Flashes

Clinton Urges OAS to Forget Coup, Readmit Honduras

Story From Upsidedown World by Rosemary A. Joyce and Russell N. Septak

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the Organization of American States (OAS) annual meeting in Lima, Peru on Monday urged countries in the hemisphere to readmit Honduras into the regional organization. The OAS suspended Honduras after the military coup which overthrew President Manuel Zelaya last June.

By jennyaJune 3, 2010Trauma Healing

Cochabamba and the UN Process

I want to begin reminding that the impacts of Climate change we are living today are not a punishment that falls from heaven. Those have their historical responsibles: those who took our resoucers, our rights and our richness and now have the duty to honor their Debt in order to allow humanity to live with dignity and without the permanent threaten to their lives. That is challenge that has to be faced in this Intersessional Meetings of the UNFCC in Bonn.

By jennyaMay 26, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Accompanying Padre Melo – May, 2010

The Quixote Center is coordinating accompaniment for Padre Melo in the aftermath of a series of death threats last month. Lucy Edwards and Pam Shepherd of Ashland, OR are the team on the ground right now. Lucy is sending daily reports which you can read here:

May 18, 2010 We arrived this morning and were greeted at the airport by Don Jose who was holding a sign with my name on it. I have always wanted to be met at the airport like that! (lu grins) He had one for Pam, too.