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By jennyaMay 26, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectAction Alert, Human Rights

COFADEH Alert: Armed Men Break into Union Center in San Pedro Sula Wouding One Person

The Committee of the Families of the Disapeared Detainees in Honduras, COFADEH, urgently alert the national and international community of the serious events which occurred this afternoon against the Union of Workers in the Beverage Industry (STYBS).

1. COFADEH received the report of this at 4:30 pm, Tuesday, May 25, 2010: armed men dressed in white shirts, with black pants and caps violently entered STIBYS, and immediately fired on Douglas Gomez who is now in surgery at the Social Security Hospital in San Ped

By jennyaMay 26, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectAction Alert, Human Rights

Urgent Action: Carlos H Reyes receives death threats

On May 20th at 6:00pm Carlos H Reyes, leader of the Honduran Resistance Movement and former Independent Presidential candidate, received a series of death threat on his cell phone. He was able verify that the call came from a land telephone in Tegucigalpa. The number was 226-9965.

The caller issued the following threat in a gruff voice: "We are going to take your head off (expletive), you have a very few days left to live."

By tomlMay 10, 2010Nicaragua Libre, Trauma HealingEconomic Justice, News Flashes

Summary of Central Points from the People's Climate Change Summit

The World People’s Climate Change Summit Agreement

Summary of Central Points May 2010

Foreign Ministry of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

By tomlMay 7, 2010Nicaragua Libre, Trauma HealingNews Flashes

Bolivian President Evo Morales to Deliver Results of People’s Conference on Climate Change to UN Sec Gen Ban Ki-moon

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 6, 2010

CONTACT: MEGAN MORRISSEY – 202-365-6900 INGRID SABJA – 973-738-2301

New York – On Friday, May 7th, President Evo Morales of Bolivia will personally present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with the conclusions of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of the Mother Earth, which was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from April 20th to 22nd, 2010.

By tomlApril 29, 2010Nicaragua LibreNews Flashes

USAID Cooperation could be suspended

Today, U.S. Ambassador in Nicaragua, Robert Callahan asked the government of Nicaragua to provide an accounting of aid received from Venezuela and how it is spent. He warned that the United States may suspend aid over this issue

…Speaking to the press, the diplomat stated that in addition to the Waiver related to property issues, there is another Waiver required to receive aid that is related to budget transparency based on a law approved by the U.S. Congress, although he did not specify the law he referred to…

By jennyaApril 28, 2010Nicaragua Libre, Trauma Healing

"Peoples Agreement " from Cochabamba – on its way to Cancun

Last week, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, some 30,000 people from more than 140 countries and representatives from forty eight governments came together to work to produce concrete documents and proposals on 17 different themes related to the single most important issue of our lifetime – the climate crisis.

By tomlApril 28, 2010Nicaragua Libre, Trauma HealingNews Flashes

Combating climate change: lessons from the world’s indigenous peoples

Bolivia’s president says developing nations must not be shut out of international negotiations for combating the greatest environmental issue of our time.

April 23, 2010|Evo Morales Opinion published in the LA Times

When I arrived at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen in late last year, the first thing that struck me were environmental activists braving the freezing weather to voice their disappointment at being locked

By jennyaApril 27, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectNews Flashes

Honduran Resistance begins Referendum to convene a Constituent Assembly

Thousands of Hondurans were mobilized throughout the country to start the process of collecting signatures, which will end on June 28, the first anniversary of the military coup. The aim is to show the current government and the powers who staged the coup, that the people demand the reestablishment of Honduras through a new constitution. After the mobilization, they denounced the kidnapping of a well-known activist of the Resistance.