As of September 1, 2021, Rights Action sent $225,000 of your grants and individual donations to partner organizations, communities and individuals, mainly in Guatemala and Honduras.

Across Canada and in exile around the world, family members of the disappeared work closely with other family members of the disappeared still living in Guatemala, struggling endlessly, demanding the truth about their forcibly disappeared loved ones, demanding justice against the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity.

Edwin Espinal & Raul Alvarez, Honduran political prisoners, had all the malicious criminal charges against them dropped

... and Why is Collingwood Today (see below) the only media reporting on the trial of Edwin Espinal, a political prisoner with family in Simcoe County (Ontario), on malicious charges related to massive protests after the U.S. and Canadian-backed regime fraudulently and violently stole the 2017 presidential elections?

Rights Action shares this update and analysis on Edwin and Raul's trial (facing trumped up charges filed by the corrupt, repressive, U.S. and Canadian backed government) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
This update is from AquiAbajo.org and written by Karen Spring, Edwin's partner.

Honduran democracy & human rights defenders on trial
On September 13 and 14, Edwin Espinal and Raúl Álvarez will stand trial on trumped up charges stemming from protests against the 2017 elections that were violently and fraudulently stolen by the U.S. and Canadian-backed regime of President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Forced Migrancy & Refugee Flight

“The inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide”
(Harsha Walia)

35 community and environmental defenders from Azacualpa and other villages are being prosecuted on trumped up charges. Aura Minerals/MINOSA had 19 people charged since 2017. Now, 16 more have been added. They face criminal charges of "damages to private property".

Son 35 defensores de las comunidad y del medioambiente de Azacualpa y otras aldeas, con procesos judiciales. Aura Minerals/MINOSA tenía procesados a 19 personas desde 2017. Ahora, se suma unos 16 más. Son procesos por « daños y perjuicios a la propiedad privada ».