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One year on and Honduran Environmental Defenders still in jail without trial

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Trocaire The ‘Guapinol 8’ were detained on 1st September last year for peacefully protesting against the exploitation of their community’s natural resources by private business interests. Two daughters of the imprisoned Guapinol human rights defenders, Liss Jireth Cedillo Zúniga (7) and her fri...

The lawyers in the Guapinol case reject denial of appeal stating that it was copied and pasted form a different resolution

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"Business Human Right Legal Defense of Guapinol Water Protectors Respond to Disgraceful "Copy-Paste" Appeals Court Ruling with Constitutional Action", 24 de agosto de 2020 The eight defenders have been in pretrial jail for almost a year without ever having a solid legal reasoning as to why. A y...

We Are in Danger Daily: Honduran Afro-Indigenous Garífuna Demand Return of Kidnapped Land Defenders

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Democracy Now At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed were Indigenous peoples. We get an update from Honduras, where the Afro-Indigenous Garífuna commu...

Anglo American responses to AGM queries raise more questions than they answer

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Aldo Orellana Lopez Terra Justa We supported allies DHUMA to submit questions about Anglo American's Peruvian operations to their online AGM in May 2020. Their responses left much to be desired. The annual shareholder meeting of London-registered mining giant Anglo American took place behind c...

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