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- List of death threats against Berta Cáceres / Amenazas, agresiones y actos de hostigamiento en contra de Berta Cáceres Flores
- Reasons why the participation of an interdisciplinary group of independent experts is needed
- Latest newsletter from the family of Berta Cáceres
- Berta Cáceres’ murder: UN experts renew call to Honduras to end impunity
- IACHR Wraps Up its 157th Session
- Congressional Briefing: “The Assassination of Berta Cáceres and Ongoing Killings and Attacks Targeting Social Activists in Honduras”
- Congressional Briefing: The US Policy Response to Violence and Repression Against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
- 11 U.S. Senators Send Letter to Secretary Kerry Calling for a Transparent International Investigation on Berta Cáceres’ Death
- Members of Congress call for an independent, international investigation into the murder of Cáceres with backing from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
- Carta Abierta al Secretario de Estado John Kerry en referencia al Asesinato de la Activista Indígena y Ambientalista Hondureña Berta Cáceres el 10 de marzo, 2016
Change.org: Referéndum Revocatorio para el Presidente de Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández
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Global Witness: How Many More? | Cuántos Más?
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Why your congressperson should co-sign the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act (HR 1299).
The Nation – Trump’s Cruel Folly: Canceling TPS for Hondurans Will Fuel More Violence
For years the United States has helped perpetuate poverty and authoritarian rule in Honduras. Trump’s decision to end temporary protected status only compounds US complicity. On New Year’s Day, unmarked SUVs pursued 21-year-old Honduran activist Wilmer Paredes as he rode …Read More »Trump’s Cruel Folly: Canceling TPS for Hondurans Will Fuel More Violence
For years the United States has helped perpetuate poverty and authoritarian rule in Honduras. Trump’s decision to end temporary protected status only compounds US complicity. On New Year’s Day, unmarked SUVs pursued 21-year-old Honduran activist Wilmer Paredes as he rode …Read More »President of DESA arrested for involvement in Assassination of Berta Cáceres
COPINH reports to the national and international community that moments ago David Castillo, the President of the DESA corporation and the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, was arrested thanks to all of the work and pressure created by the solidarity and …Read More »Where to send sensitive information about Honduras.
Do you have leads on electoral fraud in Honduras, or on the yet-to-be-prosecuted Berta Cáceres case? Send here using this key: B9DD 50A4 26CF AE1F B33E A9BB 707E 9F1F 59D9 2806Read More »International Group of Experts Report on Assassination of Berta Cáceres
On March 2, 2016, armed men murdered human rights defender Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores, and shot Mexican environmental activist Gustavo Castro Soto in the town of La Esperanza, Department of Intibucá, Honduras. Their relatives and the Civic Council of Popular …Read More »NYT: America’s Blind Eye to Honduras’s Tyrant
“He may be an S.O.B., but he’s our S.O.B.” That quip — of uncertain origin, but often traced to Franklin D. Roosevelt about Nicaragua’s ruthless dictator Anastasio Somoza — became a shorthand excuse for dubious American foreign policies during the …Read More »Leahy Statement On The Election In Honduras
Leahy Statement On The Election In Honduras Those of us who care about Central America have watched the election for Honduras’ next president with increasing alarm. It has been more than a week since November 26, when the people of …Read More »THE PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS IS DEPLOYING U.S.-TRAINED FORCES AGAINST ELECTION PROTESTERS
HONDURAN PRESIDENT JUAN Orlando Hernández, using the specter of rampant crime and the drug trade, won extensive support from the American government to build up highly trained state security forces. Now, those same forces are repressing democracy. The post-election situation in …Read More »TOP U.S.-BACKED HONDURAN SECURITY MINISTER IS RUNNING DRUGS, ACCORDING TO COURT TESTIMONY
THE HONDURAN MINISTER of security, who was intimately involved in solidifying the 2009 coup, is tied up in drug trafficking, according to testimony from a Mexican drug-trafficker-turned-DEA-informant in U.S. court. In November 2016, as the world’s attention was fixated on the surprise election …Read More »Who Ordered Killing of Honduran Activist? Evidence of Broad Plot Is Found
MEXICO CITY — It was just before midnight when two men kicked in the door to Berta Cáceres’s house in the small Honduran mountain town of La Esperanza. Moving past the kitchen, one of them opened the door to her …Read More »Reaction Of Senator Patrick Leahy To The Report Of The Independent Team Of Experts Investigating The Assassination Of Berta Caceres In Honduras
“This damning report corroborates what many have suspected — that the investigation of Berta Caceres’ murder has been plagued by incompetence, attempts to stonewall and deflect blame to protect those who conceived of and paid for this plot, and a …Read More »Honduras, the Deadliest Country in the World for Environmental Defenders, Is About to Get Deadlier
Activists in Honduras could soon face up to 20 years in prison for simply marching in the streets after Congress passed an article of the new Criminal Code last week that opposition lawmakers claim criminalizes social protest as a form …Read More »NY Times: Los herederos de Berta Cáceres
Video: Violence, Corruption and Murder: The Honduras Coup Eight Years On
Sierra Club Magazine-Under the Gun: An Investigation Into the Murder of Berta Cáceres
GUSTAVO CASTRO WAS IN BED, working on his laptop, when he heard a loud noise. It sounded like someone was breaking open the locked kitchen door. From the bedroom across the hall, his friend Berta Cáceres screamed, “Who’s out there?” …Read More »Honduras: Justicia en la cuerda floja
En Honduras, la justicia pasa de parecer lejana a volverse completamente inasible. El 23 de mayo, por tercera vez consecutiva, el Juzgado de Letras de la ciudad de Tegucigalpa aplazó la audiencia preliminar en el caso del asesinato de la …Read More »Statement from the family of Berta Cáceres on Honduran government deception
It has been 15 months since the assassination of our beloved Berta and the Honduran government continues to obfuscate, delay and impede justice. Our family and our legal team have repeatedly requested documents pertaining to the case that we – …Read More »Rep. Norma Torres Refuses Family of Berta Cáceres’ Call to Support Berta Cáceres Act
(Rep. Norma Torres D-CA with Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernandez) First, I would like to offer my heartfelt and sincere condolences for your loss. To lose a loved one in such a violent manner is a tragedy that none …Read More »Letter to Rep. Norma Torres Asking for Berta Cáceres Law Support
Family of Berta Cáceres XXXX Xth Ave. Oakland, California XXXXX March 2, 2017 3200 Inland Empire Blvd. Suite 200B Ontario, CA 91764 Dear Rep. Norma Torres, We, the family of assassinated Honduran environmental and indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres, write …Read More »Hija de Berta Cáceres: Transformar el dolor en acción
Activists Family Asks Congresswoman to Support Act to Stop Honduran State Repression
Link to original report. Human rights activists argue that Washington has blood on its hands for its complicity in abuses carried out by Honduran state forces. One year after the assassination of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Caceres, human rights organizations …Read More »CNN: Berta Cáceres’ family seeks justice on anniversary of fearless activist’s death
Link to original post. (CNN)In one of the most dangerous countries in the world, one woman paid the ultimate price for her cause. One day before her 45th birthday on March 3, 2016, Berta Cáceres was shot dead in her …Read More »Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Berta Caceres on the One Year Anniversary of Her Killing
Link to original post Mr. President, I want to call the Senate’s attention to the fact that it has now been one year since the assassination of Berta Caceres, a renowned indigenous Honduran environmental activist who devoted her life – …Read More »Letter to Rep. Norma Torres from the Family of Berta Cáceres
Family of Berta Cáceres XXXX Xth Ave. Oakland, California XXXXX March 2, 2017 3200 Inland Empire Blvd. Suite 200B Ontario, CA 91764 Dear Rep. Norma Torres, We, the family of assassinated Honduran environmental and indigenous rights leader Berta Cáceres, write …Read More »Rep. Johnson reintroduces the “Berta Caceres Human Rights in Honduras Act”
Original post here. March 2, 2017 Press Release Congressman Johnson is joined by colleagues in efforts to withhold U.S. funds from Honduran police and military in the name of human rights View in Spanish here WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Hank …Read More »A year after Cáceres assassination, US policy on Honduras yet to change
Link to original article here. This week, hundreds of people are gathered in the small town of La Esperanza in Honduras to remember the extraordinary life of Berta Cáceres, brutally cut short one year ago by a death squad that …Read More »An Idealist’s Martyrdom Fails to Move Honduras, and the U.S.
Original NYT article LA ESPERANZA, Honduras — Precisely a year ago, I awoke to a garbled text message from my mother. She was too distraught to write clearly, but I understood her immediately, and my heart dropped. Murderers had finally …Read More »Guardian: Berta Cáceres court papers show murder suspects’ links to US-trained elite troops
Leaked court documents raise concerns that the murder of the Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres was an extrajudicial killing planned by military intelligence specialists linked to the country’s US–trained special forces, a Guardian investigation can reveal. Cáceres was shot dead a …Read More »Berta’s Assassination Anniversary, The Berta Cáceres Act, and The Global Witness Report
An update from the family of Berta Cáceres. As with many policies the only things that have been predictable about the new president are tweets and well, unpredictability. Our assumption is that at the very least the current policies will …Read More »The Guardian: Honduras elites blamed for violence against environmental activists
High-ranking politicians and business tycoons are implicated in a wave of violence against environmental activists in Honduras, according to an investigation by the anti-corruption group Global Witness, which says the country’s elites are using criminal methods to terrorize communities with …Read More »“Berta lives on, COPINH is strong” – COPINH calls for month of action
On March 2nd, 2016 they assassinated our sister Berta Cáceres. They thought they would get rid not just of her as a leader recognized throughout Latin America and around the world, but also would end a struggle, a political project, …Read More »Statement from Berta Caceres family concerning arrest of alleged 7th ‘material’ author
Public statement concerning the arrest of Henry Javier Hernandez Rodriguez January 15, 2017 The legal team representing the daughters, son and mother of Berta Caceres, as well as COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), since the …Read More »US Representatives ask State Department to Revoke Honduras Certification
December 15, 2016 The Honorable John Kerry Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Kerry: We are writing to express our concern regarding the grave human rights situation and continuing deterioration …Read More »Members of Congress Call for Suspension of Security Funding to Honduras
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2016 Reps. Ellison and Johnson Call for Accountability for Human Rights Abuses in Honduras WASHINGTON– Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Hank Johnson (D-GA), along with 27 Members of the House, sent a letter today to …Read More »Outside Magazine: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth to Be an Environmentalist
The assassination of Goldman Prize-winning activist Berta Cáceres last March shocked the global community. But in her home country of Honduras, where more than 100 activists have been cut down in the past five years, it was business as usual. …Read More »Guardian-Berta Cáceres murder: international lawyers launch new investigation
A group of international legal experts has launched an independent inquiry into the murder of Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres amid widespread concerns over the official investigation. Five lawyers from the US, Guatemala and Colombia are in Honduras to try …Read More »As killings and attempted killings continue in Honduras, State Department decides to give passing grade.
From: “U.S. Department of State” Daily Press Briefing – October 14, QUESTION: Uh, yeah. Yes. And then the second one is on Honduras. MR TONER: Mm-hmm. QUESTION: Have you guys certified that they have met their human rights obligations? I …Read More »DESA Statement on continuing dam construction
DESA Statement (in Spanish) The company claims it is helping the community while not one mention of the indigenous people they have displaced, nor the assassination of Berta Cáceres.Read More »End U.S. Support for the Thugs of Honduras
“I have no doubt that she has been killed because of her struggle, and that soldiers and people from the dam are responsible, I am sure of that,” her 84-year-old mother told a local radio station. “I hold the government …Read More »Environmental activists still under threat in Honduras six months after Berta Cáceres’ killing
Chills ran down Tomás Gómez Membreño’s spine when he first heard about the brutal murder of his renowned friend and ally, the Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, six months ago this week. A fellow environmental activist and second in command …Read More »