Results & Aftermath of Landmark Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits
13 Brave Giants
Painted by Pati Flores
Funding and Supporting Human Rights & Justice, Land & Environment Defense Struggles in Guatemala & Honduras
Rights Action works (mainly) in Honduras and Guatemala in support of justice struggles for war crimes and human rights violations; in support of land, environment and human rights defense struggles, resisting harms and often deadly violence caused by different sectors of the unjust global economy: mining and hydro-electric dams; for-export production of African palm, sugarcane and bananas; tourism and ‘sweatshop’ garment factories; and in denouncing the multiple political and/or military interventions of primarily the U.S. and also Canada and other ‘global north’ countries and actors.
Education & Activism
Rights Action carries out education and activism work in the U.S. and Canada addressing how our governments, companies and investors often contribute directly to and benefit from human rights violations, repression, environmental harms, exploitation, corruption and impunity in these countries.
Direct Funding
Rights Action channels your donations and grants directly to people suffering human rights violations, evictions and harms caused by the corrupt, repressive, U.S. and Canadian-backed regimes in Honduras and Guatemala, and their global economy business partners, as they fight to stay in their communities, on their lands, defending their human rights and the environment.
Happening NOW
43rd Anniversary of Los Encuentros Massacre in Guatemala
To make way for ‘genocidal’ Chixoy hydro-electric dam project of World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, in partnership with U.S and Western-backed genocidal regimes of generals Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt
Below is a timeline of key events and dates in recent history providing background context to the ‘local-to-national-to-global’ realities in which our partner groups live, suffer and resist, in which we do our work.
(This is not a comprehensive history.)
Rights Action is not working on “national” issues in Honduras and Guatemala. We are not helping “them” with “their” problems. The underlying causes of the serious problems are found at the local, national and international levels, all at the same time. In many ways, Rights Action is working to address and remedy “American” and “Canadian” problems in Honduras and Guatemala.
Policies and actions of the U.S. and Canadian governments, of the U.S. military, of North American companies and investors, and of intergovernmental institutions like the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, oftentimes cause and benefit from repression, harms and violations, environmental degradation, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala. Rights Action documents and denounces these “northern”/ “global” policies and actions, and directly funds and supports Hondurans and Guatemalans working and struggling for their collective and individual rights, and for Mother Earth, the environment.
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