COFADEH: Once Again Forced Disappearance is being Implemented in Honduras
The following was translated from an original statement in Spanish by COFADEH. An article in Spanish on COFADEH’s human rights journalism website can be found here.
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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
Urgent action from campesino organizations of Lower Aguan
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
Student killed in the struggle to defend public education in the department of Santa Barbara
The following is a translation of a statement circulated (in Spanish) on the La Compa mailing list (the mailing list of the members of the Convergence of the Peoples of the Americas). The original statement is below.
HONDURAS: Student killed on the battlefront for public education in the department of Santa Barbara
COFADEH: BAJO AGUAN-PRESIDENT OF LA CONCEPCIÓN PEASANT SETTLEMENT AND HIS WIFE WERE ASSASINATED
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.
Afro descendant communites threatened by "Model Cities" issue ALERT
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.
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