Human Rights in Honduras: From repression against the student movement, to massacres in Lower Aguan.
English translation of article by the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras, OFRANEH
Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.
English translation of article by the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras, OFRANEH
English translation of an urgent action from campesino organizations of Lower Aguan
Original version in Spanish below
http://otrahonduras.blogspot.com/2011/08/alerta-satanizacion-y-represion-al.html
Friday, August 26th, 2011
HONDURAS: Student killed on the battlefront for public education in the department of Santa Barbara
Pedro Salgado, president of the peasant settlement, La Concepción, in the Bajo Aguán and his wife Reina Mejía, were murdered in their own home in the settlement on Sunday, August 21 at 8:30 pm. La Concepción is part of the Peasant Movement of the Aguán, MUCA.
Note from the Friendship Office: This article was translated from the Honduran national daily newspaper El Tiempo print edition for Wednesday, August 10th. We were not able to find the article on the digital edition of El Tiempo at http://www.tiempo.hn. The original title of the article in Spanish is Organismos humanitarios todavía no ubican a supuesto criminal de guerra. Versión en español abajo These reports are particularly worrying in light of the current criminalization of members of the Siria Valley Environmental Committee and community members of El Porvenir and El Suyatal working to protect vital remaining forests and watersheds in their communities which also happened to be concessioned to transnational mining companies – reportedly Canadian companies. Starting at 8:00am on Thursday, June 28th in Tegucigalpa, thousands of demonstrators met at the Pedagogical University and marched to the offices of the United Nations to make their denunciations. (Follow up to International letter to halt criminalization against environmental defenders in Honduras sent July 14th, 2011, see more info here.) Human rights organizations in Honduras have yet to locate alleged war criminal
Canadian Prime Minister Trades in Human Rights for Economic Concessions in Honduras
Honduran congress representatives reported to collude with transnational mining companies
Victims of the Coup d'État March in the Capital
URGENT Action for Spanish Speakers (to start IMMEDIATELY)