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21. German parlamentarians demand justice for Honduran environmental activists
(Regional News)
... lack of space and the deplorable sanitary conditions they live in. This is the situation of seven environmental activists who have been held in preventive detention since last September at the Olanchito ...
Created on 20 April 2020
22. Honouring the struggle of Mariano Abarca and Environment Defenders in Chiapas
(Regional News)
... efforts to organize at the community level, they have faced defamation, criminalization, arbitrary detention, physical threats from armed groups and forced displacement.  Internationally, in the ongoing ...
Created on 26 December 2019
23. 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
24. Murdered environmental activists remembered
(Mining and Human Rights)
... politician who is currently under detention for the gruesome murder of a municipal employee and for his alleged involvement with criminal networks in Honduras.  Rodrigo Chaves was Vice President of Pacific ...
Created on 30 December 2014
25. How Honduras became one of the most dangerous countries to defend natural resources
(Mining and Human Rights)
... detention since 2019 for alleged crimes linked to their opposition to an iron oxide mine which threatens to contaminate their water supply. Five more water defenders from Guapinol, a small low-income community ...
Created on 07 October 2020
26. Sakharov Prize 2020: the nominees
(Mining and Human Rights)
... to justify this prolonged detention.  Berta Cáceres, assassinated in March 2016, was a courageous ecologist and prominent land rights activist from the indigenous Lenka community in Honduras. She was ...
Created on 29 September 2020
27. After trying to protect water sources, these Hondurans have been held without bail for more than a year.
(Mining and Human Rights)
... held without bail in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The incarcerated men were part of a local campaign to protect water sources in their community. “He’s in jail for defending the Guapinol ...
Created on 25 September 2020