Rights Action / Alliance for Global Justice Honduras Delegation 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. Canadian and US transnational corporations are pushing mining…
Honduras
Eco-solidarity, Honduras
War Against Peasant Farmers Heats Up in Honduras
This piece was originally published in Upside Down World. “There is a war here in the Aguán,” says Juan, surveying the distant fields of African palm from the vantage point of his recently planted field of beans and corn. A young Honduran farmer, wearing a beaten cowboy hat and a bandana bearing the name “National…
Action alerts, Honduras
Honduras Congressional Letter – Has Your Rep Signed?
The following was originally sent by the Honduras Solidarity Network (of which AFGJ is a part.) On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) circulated a House sign-on “Dear Colleague” letter addressing the ongoing human rights crisis in the Aguán region of Honduras. *It will be open for signature until March 1. *…
Chuck Kaufman, Eco-solidarity, Honduras, News
Return to Rigores, Honduras
By Chuck Kaufman On Jan. 9, 2012 an Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ) delegation of US and Canadians visited the farming community of Rigores, Honduras in the fertile Aguan Valley near the country’s Caribbean Coast. It was a far different visit than was experienced by a previous AfGJ delegation just six months earlier. On that…
Action alerts, Honduras
Honduran State Is Failing to Guarantee the Security of its Citizens
This alert was originally circulated by The Committee for Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH). AfGJ will have a human rights accompaniment delegation in Honduras from Jan. 6-15. Watch your email for urgent actions or important updates during this period. The delegation will be accompanying small farm cooperatives which are subject to…
Action alerts, Honduras, Militarism
Human Rights Accompaniment Program
Description Due to the increased militarization and systematic human rights violations of campesino communities in the Bajo Aguan region of Honduras, we are making a call for committed volunteers interested in long term accompaniment. The international accompaniment program is a product of the Observatorio de los Derechos Humanos en el Bajo Aguan. The Observatorio primarily…
Action alerts, Democracy, Honduras
Attorneys Urge Court to Hear Lawsuit Against Honduras Coup Leader
This article was originally posted and circulated by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras. November 3, 2011, Houston, TX and New York, NY – Last night, in a human rights case against Honduran coup leader Roberto Micheletti Baín, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional…
Honduras, Militarism, News
Honduras & the US Military
By John Lindsay-Poland The following is an introduction to a report that can be downloaded in its entirety here. Honduras has increasingly become a hub for U.S. military operations in Central America, centered on the Soto Cano air base (also known locally as Palmerola), which has received an infusion of up to $45 million in construction…
Action alerts, Honduras
Honduras does not afford rights to Journalists
The Committee for the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), expresses its outrage and concern for the violation of rights carried out against journalists, social communicators, and especially for the safety of Mario Castro Rodríguez, Director of the Program “Whip Against Corruption” (Látigo Contra la Corrupción), transmitted two hours each day by…
Action alerts, Honduras, Militarism
Condemn Militarization & Murder in Honduras
Action Items: Call and write to the Department of State: Call Benjamin Gedan, Honduras Desk Officer, at (202) 647-3482, or email him at: [email protected] Tell him that it is a violation of US law for US-supplied weapons to be used to repress civilian populations and that you demand that the US cut off all military…