Monday, April 8th at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET (Español abajo) Three years after Berta Cáceres murder, human rights abuses in Honduras have increased and the US-backed dictatorship of Juan Orlando Hernández has been granted impunity. The H.R. 1945, better known as the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act, would suspend military and police…
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Three years after Berta Cáceres’ murder, the struggle for justice for her and against the US and Canadian-backed dictatorship in Honduras continues. In honor of Berta, and with a commitment to supporting the continuing struggle, the Honduras Solidarity Network invites you to join the webinar Fighting for Berta’s Path. Listen to…
Dates: March 26 – April 2, 2019 After the fraudulent elections of 2017, in which Juan Orlando Hernández was illegally re-elected as president of Honduras, the world has seen thousands of people flee the country in massive caravans; an increase of political repression and violence. Conditions for political prisoners such as Edwin Espinal and…
[español abajo] Roots of the Exodus: from the Honduran political crisis to the Refugee caravan- an update Tuesday, December 11 at 7pm CT and Central American Time/8pm ET/6pm MT/5pm PT Please join this Honduras Solidarity Network webinar with Honduran journalist, former opposition congressman, and human rights defender, Bartolo Fuentes who was accompanying the Refugee Caravan…
Thursday, November 8th at 5:30pm PT/6:30pm MT/7:30pm CT/8:30pm ET. We had a Honduras Solidarity Network webinar to understand the origins of the Refugee Caravan, which finds its roots on the US interventionist policies in the region, to hear from the current situation of the more than 7 thousand people that are part of the caravan,…
Why they migrate is why they are imprisoned and killed. TAKE ACTION TO FREE HONDURAN POLITICAL PRISONERS! 15 political prisoners remain imprisoned for protesting the U.S.- and Canadian-backed 2017 electoral fraud in Honduras. The majority of political prisoners are being held in military-run, maximum-security prisons where they face years of pre-trial detention. They are being…
Originally Published HERE. On October 12, 2018, hundreds of women, men, children, youth and the elderly decided to leave Honduras as a desperate response to survive. The massive exodus that began in the city of San Pedro Sula, reached more than 3 thousand people by the time the group crossed to Guatemala. The caravan, which…
NEW Dear Colleague in House and Senate! Stop threats against national and international human rights defenders, observers and journalists in Honduras We need your calls today! This afternoon Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) began circulating a sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter in the U.S. Congress to President Trump and Secretary of State…
Free Honduran Political Prisoners! Stop Supporting Dictatorship! Send an email to US Congress demanding fundamental change in policies toward Honduras This alert prepared by the Honduras Solidarity Network June 28, 2018, marks 9 years since the US backed coup d’etat in Honduras: 9 years of increasing violence and impunity, poverty and inequity for the Honduran…
Following is an English translation of a press document released during a press conference held by members of an Alliance for Global Justice/La Voz de los de Abajo delegation to Honduras to investigate the treatment of political prisoners arrested since the fraudulent presidential election in November 2017. International Delegation Investigates Situation of the Political Prisoners…
