By Borland (text) and Roger Harris (photos) (If you are interested in being an election monitor for Honduras’ Nov. 24 general election, send an email to Chuck Kaufman at chuck(at)AFGJ.org.) Arriving at noon on November 16, 2012, in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, I joined a delegation of 35 internationalists and was immediately immersed in…
Honduras
Español, Honduras, Uncategorized
The Honduran People under a Permanent Coup d’Etat
Articulo en español abajo: By OFRANEH: The latest Coup d’Etat perpetrated in the early hours of December 12 in Honduras, when the National Congress voted to remove four Supreme Court justices, places front and center once again the dictatorship the country has experienced since June 28, 2009. The ultra-right of Honduras has been offering up…
Delegations & tours, Honduras
Important Call for Human Rights Accompaniment in Honduras
Join Honduras Solidarity Network’s Election Delegation Nov. 12-21, 2012 or Nov. 16-19, 2012
Delegations & tours, Honduras
Masked security guards threaten, fire warning shot at human rights observers today in Honduras
Honduras
THE WORLD’S FIRST CHARTER CITIES IN HONDURAS: From neo-liberalism to neo-colonialism
By Annie Bird (9/14/12) The Honduran National Congress is currently reviewing the law to geographically define the first four “Charter Cities” in the world, three sites along the Caribbean coast in Garifuna afro-indigenous territory, Trujillo, the Valle de Cuyamel and the Sico-Paulaya Valley, which includes Miskitu indigenous territory. One is proposed in the Gulf of…
Delegations & tours, Honduras
Honduras Human Rights Primary Elections Accompaniment Delegation
Invitation to join the Honduras Human Rights Primary Elections Accompaniment Delegation – Nov. 18, 2012 LIBRE, the party of the National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP), is holding primary elections for President and National Assembly on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. The FNRP is the organization uniting labor, teachers, students, campesino, Afro-Honduran, and indigenous groups, LGBT,…
Action alerts, Honduras
LGBT Assassinations in Honduras! Ask Your Rep to Sign This Congressional Letter!
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED! Contact the Foreign Policy Staffer in Washington DC Office of Your U.S. Representative! On Monday, June 11, 2012, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) began circulating a House sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter (found below) addressing the murders of 70 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) Hondurans since the June 2009 coup, and seeking…
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US participation in massacre of Moskito people!
On May 22 and 23 a delegation of human rights activists from the United States organized by Rights Action and Alliance for Global Justice visited the community of Ahuás in the Moskitia region of Honduras. The delegation witnessed an atmosphere of terror being generated amongst dire poverty in an area where the indigenous people are…
Delegations & tours, Honduras
The Coup vs. Honduran Popular Movement Delegation!
Honduras Delegation: May 19-28, 2012 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 19! Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations. Canadian and US transnational corporations are pushing mining and tourist…
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Rights Action / Alliance for Global Justice Honduras Delegation The Coup vs. Democracy: Struggle of the Popular Movements May 19-28, 2012
Since the June 2009 military coup, large landowners in the fertile Aguan Valley of Northern Honduras have used the military, police, and private security guards, to terrorize villages and expand their lucrative African palm plantations.
