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On June 13, assassins on a motorcycle shot multiple times at Yolanda Oqueli Veliz, a community leader from the municipalities of San José el Golfo and San Pedro Ayampuc, just out side of Guatemala City. Yolanda is in critical but stable condition in a Guatemala City Hospital, one bullet still lodged in her body. Humanitarian-emergency relief funds are needed.
HONDURAS - U.S. CONGRESSIONAL "DEAR COLLEAGUE" LETTER About the murders of 70 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) Hondurans since the June 2009 coup
Hudbay did not "create better futures for communities" in Guatemala. Rather, Hudbay left a legacy of damage, injury, death and on-going suffering in Guatemala that have not been addressed or remedied.
- URGENT ACTION: "HONDURAN STATE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST VICTIMS OF THE D.E.A."
- ARTICLE: "THE PENTAGON TARGETS HONDURAS", about a delegation of North Americans that visited the site of the May 11 "D.E.A." killing of indigenous Moskito people in Honduras
Rights Action is pleased to partner with documentary filmmaker and activist Rachel Schmidt, and Executive Producer Lee K. Toepfer, from 6kidsProductions, to produce the documentary film “Defensora”. The film documents the Mayan Q'eqchi people's struggle, in eastern Guatemala, to reclaim their ancestral lands, and find justice for the murder, shootings and rapes committed against them by a Canadian mining company and its subsidiary in Guatemala.
