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Rights Action’s Hurricane Eta emergency fund
Mudslides, flooding rivers and torrential rains are devastating already impoverished, discriminated communities in Honduras & Guatemala
Demand return of five Garifuna land & rights defenders Disappeared by U.S. & Canadian-backed Honduran regime
Rights Action joins the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN) in support for demand of the Garifuna people in Honduras for the return of five Garifuna land/rights defenders forcibly disappeared on July 18, 2020 by the U.S. and Canadian-backed Honduran regime.
The face of America has always been the face of Donald Trump
Article by Wallace Shawn, The New York Review
“But for those countless others, in the cities and towns of the USA and in countries far away,
to whom America has not been good,
the face of America has always and forever been the face of Donald Trump.”
Guatemala’s military-backed, racist and exploitative regime – an open-for-global-business “democratic allie” of Canada and U.S. – is blocking war crimes trials and justice struggles
Article by Sandra Cuffe, Vice News, October 28, 2020
Illegal regime change efforts with a “human rights” face: Prime Minister Trudeau’s imperialist Venezuela policy
Rights Action shares this op-ed piece by Venezuela’s Foreign Minister. This was published just after a big majority of Bolivians took back and restored their democracy, after the U.S. and Canadian-backed military ouster of President Evo Morales in 2019.
Elena Choc Quib has died
Killed by cancer, and by the indifference, power and wealth of a faraway Canadian mining company, its investors and government supporters
Jailing the Guapinol mining-resistance defenders in Honduras
Honduras is one of the most dangerous countries to defend human rights, land and the environment, ever since the 2009 U.S. and Canadian-backed coup brought to power a repressive, pro-business regime, still in power due to systemic repression and electoral fraud, links to international businesses and organized crime, and to corruption and impunity.
Covid19 & Caravans of forced migrants from Honduras Thousands flee desperation, violence and corruption of U.S. and Canadian-backed regime
Honduran migrants are caught between economic despair and militarized crackdowns
By Sandra Cuffe, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 3, 2020
Lote Ocho women file sexual violence criminal complaint against CGN mining company in Guatemala
CGN, owned today by Solway Investment Group of Switzerland, was owned by Canadian Skye Resources at time of the sexual violence against Mayan Q’eqchi’ villagers in 2007
Ontario court rejects Hudbay Minerals appeal in Lote Ocho sexual violence lawsuit
“Mr. Wanless, I do not need to hear from you”, said Judge Fred Myers of the Ontario Superior Court during the September 30, 2020 Hudbay Minerals lawsuit hearing, indicating he had no need to listen to arguments from lawyers for the plaintiffs Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein.