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
CASA BENJAMIN LINDER: LIGHT & LEGACY BRIGADE Where: Managua & San José de Bocay, Nicaragua When:25 April-2 May 2022 Cost: $75 per person/per day all-inclusive 9-day brigade. Total cost: $675 per person* To apply:Write to casabenjaminlinder@gmail.com Application deadline: 25 March 2022 Description: 40 years ago as a young juggler, unicyclist & electrical engineer, Ben Linder
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
Today we remember Berta Caceres who was murdered five years ago after an arduous struggle to protect the Gualcarque River in Honduras from a hydroelectric dam. Berta was the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize. She was a woman who talked with the rivers and spoke truth to empire, militarism and corporate greed. Please take
Yesterday, the Honduras Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Act of 2021 was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Jeff Merkley (OR). The bill calls on the United States “to suspend support for the Government of Honduras until endemic corruption, impunity, and human rights violations cease, and their perpetrators are brought to justice.” We need
70 organizations send Letter to Biden on Central America Policy, asking him to break with the past of economic and military violence and to take a “new direction that respects the political and economic self-determination and dignity of our Central American neighbors.”
On Dec. 26th, Lenca indigenous leader Felix Vasquez – Lenca leader assassinated Four hooded men wearing camouflage pants and black shirts entered his home and killed him in front of his family. Another leader, Víctor Vásquez, with the Independent Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz is imprisoned. Both leaders were supporting efforts by indigenous communities
