Aguán News Alert | March 2024
During the month of March, representatives of the Agrarian Platform and the Coordinator of Popular Organizations of Aguan (COPA) participated in the 8th anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres.
Aguán News Alert | February 2024
During the month of February, we remembered the historic agreement of February 22, 2022 signed between the government of Honduras, the Agrarian Platform and Coordinador of Popular Organizations of the Aguan (COPA).
Aguán News Alert | January 2024
The new year began with an upsurge of violence against land rights defenders in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras. In January, violence culminated in assassination attempts against two campesino leaders and the kidnapping of a cooperative member.
Orgs Launch Campaign “Putting the U.S. and Canada On Trial”
The “Putting the U.S. and Canada On Trial’ campaign seeks to hold the U.S. and Canada responsible for supporting, legitimizing, and funding the Honduran narco-state as the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández goes to trial in New York in February 2024.
NGOs Urge U.S. Based Refiners to Cut Ties with Human Rights Abusing Mining Company Aura Minerals Inc.
60 civil society organizations joined Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective, the Comité de Personas Afectadas por MINOSA, and the Estudios para la Dignidad Law Firm in sending a joint letter to U.S.-based refineries Asahi Refining USA and Auramet International to express serious concern regarding their links to the San Andrés open pit gold mine in Honduras, operated by the transnational mining company Aura Minerals Inc.
“We Don’t Even Know Where the Remains of our Loved Ones Are”
Despite community efforts, a transnational mining company has desecrated a 200-year old cemetery in Honduras.