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German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists

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* Deutsche Welle COVID-19 threatens the entire population globally, but puts the most vulnerable at greater risk, including prisoners in prisons, who, many times, cannot keep their distance due to the lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation o...

CEJIL requests revocation of preventive detention of Guapinol water defenders

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San José, February 27, 2020.- Today, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) argued before the Honduran Court of Appeals that the deprivation of liberty of seven defenders of the Guapinol rivers and San Pedro must be revoked, as this constitutes an arbitrary measure contrary to inter...

International report finds that the Honduran government violates the rights of Tocoa's environmental defenders

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  Tegucigalpa, February 26, 2020 – Preliminary conclusions of a report commissioned by the Central American Alliance against Mining (ACAFREMIN) - presented at the Peoples for Water meeting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras - found that the Honduras government is responsible for the systematic viol...

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

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John C. Cannon - Mongabay  The Environmental Justice Atlas released new maps March 2 alleging that Pan American Silver operates mines  that don’t have the consent of local communities and that pollute local water supplies — assertions that the company denies. In Guatemala, the Can...

Criminalization increases against environmental defenders and social movements of the Central American region

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ACAFREMIN Social and environmental movements in the defense of human rights, groups of environmental women, indigenous peoples among other expressions organized mainly from the Central American region (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua), participated in the Fifth Regional Meeti...

Tocoa is declared free of mining, but controversial mining project remains active

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CRITERIO Tegucigalpa - The town hall through which the municipal corporation of Tocoa declared its territory, located in the department of Colon, free of mining activity, caused the residents' frustration because the local authorities excused themselves from making decisions around the conflictin...