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1. Honduran justice denies defenders of the Guapinol river to wait for their trial in freedom: (Regional News); ... new Penal Code that has been enacted since June 2020. Faced with this situation, the Honduran population and especially organizations that defend human rights and work on anti-corruption, have questioned ...; Created on 28 December 2020
2. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.: (Mining and Human Rights); ... of people in the Bajo Aguan.” Owned by one of the country’s most powerful couples, Lenir Pérez and Ana Facussé, Pinares Investments enjoys the strong support of the Honduran Congress, controlled by President ...; Created on 25 September 2020
3. One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial: (Mining and Human Rights); ... company damaging the Guapinol river and continue to face harassment and threats. All of the Guapinol detainees have been formally recognised in Honduran law, both individually and collectively, as human ...; Created on 01 September 2020
4. The Honduran government intensifies persecution against defenders of the Guapinol River: (Regional News); ... the Public Ministry, the Judiciary and the private sector to punish anyone who dares to defend the public and common goods of Honduras." Indeed, this decision of the Honduran judicial system confirms ...; Created on 20 August 2020
5. Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case: (Regional News); ConexiHon Legal Defense: Honduran Courts Rule to Sustain Political Persecution in Guapinol Case, August 17, 2020 Late last week, defense lawyers for the more than 20 environmental defenders from Tocoa, ...; Created on 18 August 2020
6. We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects fueled by foreign investors and the Honduran government. “We are in danger daily — all the leaders of the Garífuna community, all the defendants of the land in Honduras,” says Carla Garcia, international ...; Created on 17 August 2020
7. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists: (Regional News); ... Penal Center, in the department of Yoro, Honduras, and another environmental defender who is in a prison in La Ceiba, in the department of Atlántida. For the Honduran authorities, the eight activists ...; Created on 20 April 2020
8. International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defender: (Regional News); ... community, have actively supported post-coup governments as a means of securing and protecting their own interests. In the city of Tocoa, the Honduran government has confronted communities opposing the ...; Created on 20 April 2020
9. Honduran Land Defenders Receive the prestigious Letelier-Moffit award in Washington: (Regional News); Pedro Cabezas While the role of the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in a narcotrafficking ring led by his brother, Tony Hernadez, slowly unfolded in a court of Manhattan, New York, a little ...; Created on 24 October 2019
10. PRESS RELEASE: The municipal consultation on Cerro Blanco mine is valid and legitimate: (Cerro Blanco); ... to effectively enforce treaties such as the Trifinio Plan. The Trifinio Biosphere Reserve is a trinational, protected border area in Guatemala, Honduran and El Salvador. It is urgent that the Salvadoran ...; Created on 21 September 2022
11. MIRIAN MIRANDA: There is a genocidal plan against the Garífuna people: (Regional News); Thelma Gómez Durán | Mongabay * As of the 2009 coup, Honduras became a perfect political laboratory to destroy the institutions, says Miriam Miranda, coordinator of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization ...; Created on 25 December 2021
12. Environmental activists are being killed in Honduras over their opposition to mining: (Regional News); ... criminalized by the Honduran government for defending the Guapinol River against the environmental impacts of a new iron oxide mine in the Carlos Escaleras National Park. So far, at least eight people ...; Created on 06 May 2021
13. Urgent Action: Immediately release Guapinol defenders in high risk: (Mining and Human Rights); ... and that those responsible for the illegal detention should be investigated. The Working Group urged the Honduran State not to wait because every day they do not release them, they are committing another ...; Created on 14 March 2021
14. US Senators introduce bill to tackle corruption & rights violations in Honduras - cite Guapinol case: (Mining and Human Rights); GuapinolResiste Read complete bill, refering to arbitrary detention of Guapinol River Defenders and illegal mining in Carlos Escaleras National Park here. Introduction comes as Honduran President ...; Created on 23 February 2021
15. The trial for Guapinol water defender Jeremías Martínez begins today in Tegucigalpa, Honduras: (Mining and Human Rights); ... Honduran Congress cut 217 hectares from the core zone of the park from which construction was prohibited. On January 28, 2014, the first licence was granted to Emco Mining for their planned open-pit iron ...; Created on 22 February 2021
16. A Private Government in Honduras Moves Forward: (Mining and Human Rights); ... projects—Pristine Bay and Palmetto Bay—on the Honduran island of Roatán, where she serves as vice-president of the patronato, the community governing council. Her family has been in Crawfish Rock for five ...; Created on 15 February 2021
17. NEW BOOK: The water defenders - how ordinary people saved a country from corporate greed: (Mining prohibition El Salvador); ... Santa Cruz, and author of The Long Honduran Night THE AUTHORS Robin Broad and John Cavanagh are a husband and wife team who have been involved in the Salvadoran gold mining saga since 2009. Robin ...; Created on 14 January 2021
18. The hidden connection between a US steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras: (Regional News); ... Honduran businessman Lenir Pérez and his wife Ana Isabel Facussé, owners of Inversiones Los Pinares -- a company that is waging battle against the residents of a town called Guapinol, who oppose the company' ...; Created on 28 November 2020
19. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources: (Mining and Human Rights); ... her father in six months, since the Honduran government’s draconian Covid-19 measures banned most travel and prison visits. Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, a 48-year-old builder and farm worker, is one of eight ...; Created on 07 October 2020
20. 5 Garífuna Leaders Are Still Missing in Honduras: (Regional News); ... 27, is the president of the Triunfo de la Cruz community board and also a member of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRENEH). He campaigned for Honduras to fulfill a 2015 ruling by the Inter-American ...; Created on 03 September 2020

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