Franklin Almendares, General Secretary, National Union of Rural Workers (CNTC) Land ownership in Honduras in deeply unequal. Just 5% of large-scale farmers control almost two thirds of all cultivable land, while 71% of small-scale farmers have access to just 5% of it. The CNTC, founded in 1985, is a small-scale Read more…
Photo: MADJ coordinator Martín Fernández Guzman and PBI communications coordinator Hannah Matthews from today’s webinar. On March 22, PBI-USA hosted a World Water Day screening of La Sangre de la Tierra (The Blood of the Earth), a documentary about community struggles against hydroelectric dams in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. After Read more…
On March 21, during the Women Warriors panel of the Building Movements in Defence of Life film festival, Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, general coordinator of COPINH, expressed her support for the proposed Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act. On March 3, US Representative Hank Johnson reintroduced the Act. His website Read more…
“Care of the forest and opposition to extractive projects has brought persecution, criminalization, threats, militarization, poverty and forced emigration.” Indigenous feminist leader María Felícita López is the women’s coordinator with the Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz, Honduras (MILPAH). MILPAH was established in response to the irregular concessions of rivers Read more…
On March 17, Libertad para los defensores de Guapinol tweeted that Jeremías Martinez had been absolved of the crimes of usurpation and damages. Following this, lawyer Edy Tabora tweeted: “Today we obtained an important achievement, an acquittal. 27 months later the judiciary agrees with us. Thanks to colleagues, nationals and Read more…
On March 17, PBI-Honduras posted: “On March 11, the CNTC (the National Union of Rural Workers) and CODIMCA (the Council for the Integral Development of Peasant Women) presented an appeal for protection by the resolution of the Court of Appeals, which acquitted 22 of the 38 implicated in the Pandora Read more…
On March 16, Andrea Regina Pineda presented on behalf of Peace Brigades International to the UN Human Rights Council regarding the adoption of the report on Honduras by the Universal Periodic Review Working Group. Pineda is a lawyer with the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC), which Read more…
PBI-Honduras and PBI-Guatemala announced today that they are seeking volunteers to be field brigadistas. Honduras The deadline to apply with PBI-Honduras is April 19. The other key dates in the application process are interviews (May 3-30), online self-training (May 31-August 15) and the virtual training week (late-August). The application forms Read more…
On March 10, Peace Brigades International presented to the 46th Regular Session Human Rights Council that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. We were responding to the report Human rights and the global water crisis: water pollution, water scarcity and water-related disasters by David Boyd, the Special Rapporteur on human rights Read more…
AP Photo/Evan Vucci On March 5, PBI-USA signed this joint letter sent to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the US Embassy in Honduras seeking justice for Indigenous Lenca leader Berta Caceres and all human rights defenders in Honduras. The letter was signed by thirteen other organizations including EarthRights Read more…