It is with great sadness that the Friendship Office shares the news of the death of Thomas Siemer, long term friend of the people of Nicaragua. In 1994 Rita D’Escoto Clark, married Tom Siemer who became a strong supporter of the Friendship Office, founded by Rita. Tom was a dedicated peacemaker, active with Pax Christi
Tegucigalpa.- Juan López, environmental defender from Tocoa, Colón, Municipal Councilman and member of the LIBRE party was murdered on Saturday night, September 14, 2024 The murder took place at 8:30 pm in the Fabio Ochoa neighborhood of de Tocoa. According to reports, a person on a motor cycle waited for the Councilman and environmental defender
“As members of the legal community, we call on the United States to comply with existing international law by ending the use of broad unilateral coercive measures, and to comply with international law by ending the use of broad, unilateral coercive measures that extensively harm civilian populations. Seventy-five years after the Geneva Conventions, collective punishment
In response to a wave of assassinations against water and land defenders in the Guapinol and Bajo Aguan areas of Honduras, 20 members of Congress led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky sent a letter to Secretary of State Blinken calling for an independent investigation into the murders and the definitive cancellation of the illegal Los Pinares
Tegucigalpa.- March 2, 2023 marked 7 years since the murder of environmental and Lenca leader, Berta Cáceres, in her home in La Esperanza, Intibucá. There is still no justice in the case of this leader who was murdered for protecting the rivers and the environment from extractivist projects that bring only more poverty and death
Tegucigalpa – On National Human Rights Day, a public celebration was held at the National Congress in which the Minister of Human Rights led various activities including the presentation of a draft of the Program of Memory, Truth, Reparation, Justice and Non-Repetition for the Reconciliation and Refoundation of Honduras to representatives of human rights organizations
“Not only am I the first woman to have the honor of leading our Central American nation, but I also represent the first democratically elected government after going through 13 years of dictatorship, the 2009 coup d’état, full of cruel assassinations and death squads, two separate electoral frauds, a pandemic and two hurricanes. It is
This month, The New England Journal of Medicine, published an important correspondence titled, Protection Associated with Previous SARS-CoV-2. (8/11/22, Vol. 387, No. 6, pp. 568-570) The research was a collaboration between the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkley to find out how effective Covid vaccine was in
Recently I had the privilege of participating as an observer at the second Encuentro Regional de Memoria (Central America Regional Gathering on Memory) which took place in Honduras May 24-27, 2022. Hosted by the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the gathering formed part of the International Week of Detained and
State of Honduras recognizes responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras in 1983 May 11, 2022 Today before the Inter American Court on Human Rights, the State of Honduras acknowledged full responsibility for the extrajudicial killing of Herminio Deras García, union leader and member of the Communist Party and for violations of the human
