PROAH Monthly Human Rights Summary October-December 2014
Attached is our Summary of Human Rights issues and events in Honduras- October-December 2014
Honduras Accompaniment Project
Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
Frank: U.S. should rethink support for Honduras
Here is a link to a recent Houston Chronicle editorial by Dana Frank, Professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
IACHR visit to Honduras Dec. 2014: Preliminary Observations concerning the Human Rights Situation in Honduras
Last Friday, December 5, 2014 the IACHR concluded a week long visit to Honduras. Their initial observations demonstrate that the situation concerning human rights continues to deteriorate and that the current government’s actions and failure to act impels the situation in the wrong direction. A full report will be released, but not until the spring of next year. Here is a link to their initial, rather detailed observations.
LENCA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF LA PAZ ATTACKED
Press release by MILPAH (Lenca independent indigenous movement of La Paz) and CONROA (National Coalition of Environmental Networks and Organizations)
Amnesty International Alert
Amnesty International just released the following alert (PDF) alert regarding the killing of Juan Angel Lopez Miralda in the community of Rigores in Tujillo noting that others in the community could be at risk.
Excerpts from Congressional Briefing on the Impact of U.S. Security Assistance on HR in Mexico, Central America and Colombia
During a visit to Washington in late July, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina jointly called for a regional security initiative modeled on Plan Colombia in response to the rampant violence sweeping their countries.
In an October 29th Congressional brie
Statement by the Mesoamerican Working Group* on the Impact of U.S. Security Assistance on Human Rights in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia
October 29, 2014 U.S. military and police assistance to Central America and Mexico has skyrocketed over the last fifteen years. U.S.
PROAH Monthly Human Rights Summary August-September 2014
Attached is our Summary of Human Rights issues and events in Honduras- August-September 2014
The Hondurans that don’t migrate: Indigenous communities face death threats to defend their land
We link to an article, published in Latin Correspondent, written by a recently returned PROAH volunteer about what is happening in Locomapa- a community in Yoro, Honduras that is struggling to protect communal lands from illegal logging and mining:
http://latincorrespondent.com/honduras/locomapa-de-yoro-indigenous-tolup…