Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
100 Organizations support people of Tocoa, Honduras who say no to Extractive Industries: https://www.guapinolresiste.org/post/100-organizations-demand-honduran-authorities-respect-decision-of-the-people-of-tocoa-to-say-no-to
In response to a wave of assassinations against water and land defenders in the Guapinol and Bajo Aguan areas of Honduras, 20 members of Congress led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky sent a letter to Secretary of State Blinken calling for an independent investigation into the murders and the definitive cancellation of the illegal Los Pinares
By: James Phillips In case you missed it, a recent news item tells us something significant about the uses of violence for “national security,” no matter what the cost in human lives and misery in Latin America and elsewhere. Not a pretty story, but true and important. What Was He Thinking?! Last week, President Biden
Tegucigalpa.- March 2, 2023 marked 7 years since the murder of environmental and Lenca leader, Berta Cáceres, in her home in La Esperanza, Intibucá. There is still no justice in the case of this leader who was murdered for protecting the rivers and the environment from extractivist projects that bring only more poverty and death
Recently I had the privilege of participating as an observer at the second Encuentro Regional de Memoria (Central America Regional Gathering on Memory) which took place in Honduras May 24-27, 2022. Hosted by the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the gathering formed part of the International Week of Detained and
San José, Costa Rica. – On Tuesday May 10th at 2:00pm, the family of social leader Herminio Deras García, will give testimony before the Inter American Court of Human Rights, 20 years after presenting the case internationally. The family of the social and political leader, Herminio Deras will speak about what they experienced during the
In a new book, Extracting Honduras: Exploiting Resources and Forcing People to Flee, Dr. James Phillips documents the devastating “colonial (or imperial) extractive relationship of Honduras to the United States.” The book has just been published by Lexington Books… With a focus on Honduras, this book explores the deeper causes of the massive emigration of
August 30 each year is commemorated as the Day of the Disappeared in many parts of the world. In Honduras, labor unions, students and teachers organizations, human rights and women’s groups and others typically mark the day with a massive public march through some of the main streets of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. The march
On the 5-year anniversary of the assassination of Honduran environmental and indigenous rights leader, Berta Cáceres, Congressman Johnson re-introduced the Berta Cáceres Act for Human Rights in Honduras with 44 original co-sponsors. The Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act will suspend U.S. funding for police and military operations, and prohibit international loans providing security
