Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
Excerpts from interview with the Ex Director of Internal Affairs for the National Police, Commissioner Maria Luisa Borjas following the “honorable” and multimillion dollar “retirement-expulsion” of several high ranking, veteran and questionable National Police officers.
This afternoon, February 14th, the courts of El Progreso, Yoro issued a provisional dismissal in the case of Magdalena Morales, Regional Director of the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC), accused by the transnational sugar producer AZUNOSA, a subsidiary of SABMiller (South African Brewing-Miller Brewing, headquartered in England), of land usurpation, damages, and continued profit losses.
This afternoon, February 14th, the courts of El Progreso, Yoro issued a provisional dismissal in the case of Magdalena Morales, Regional Director of the National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC), accused by the transnational sugar producer AZUNOSA, a subsidiary of SABMiller (South African Brewing-Miller Brewing, headquartered in England), of land usurpation, damages, and continued profit losses.
PEN International has released a major new report on rise in violence agasint journalists.
Here is the full report in two formats:
http://ihrp.law.utoronto.ca/utfl_file/count/media/Honduras%20report-FINAL%20English.pdf)
| Written by Dan Beeton and Alexander Main- Thursday, 16 January 2014 10:09 |
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The new budget appropriations bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday, and set to be taken up by the Senate in the coming days, includes several passages that are relevant for Honduras, including stronger restrictions on U.S. assistance for the police and military.
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World Bank funding a company implicated in human rights abuses in Honduras January 10, 2014
The attached letter was sent to the State Department on December 20, 2013
