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Constitutional Court of Guatemala re-affirms that Solway Investment Group mining operation is illegal
"The community consultation carried out by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines was carried out illegally."
(Rafael Maldonado, lawyer for Maya Q’eqchi’ complainants)
Constitutional Court of Guatemala re-affirms that Solway Investment Group mining operation is illegal
"The community consultation carried out by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines was carried out illegally."
(Rafael Maldonado, lawyer for Maya Q’eqchi’ complainants)
US and Canadian-backed Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez used drug-trafficking money to rig elections the US and Canada called ‘fair and democratic’
Who will investigate the USA, Canada and Spain, the World Bank, IDB and IMF, and transnational corporations (mining, African palm, bananas, maquilas, tourism) - that all maintained beneficial relations with 12 years and 7 months of these "democratic allies" in Honduras, including the theft of three fraudulent and violent elections (2009, 2013, 2017)?
Former Honduran President to face drug-trafficking charges in USWill there be any accountability for 12 years, 7 months of illegal US & Canadian support for the Honduran narco-state?
On April 21, 2022, a plane with 6 DEA agents landed at the Toncontín airport, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. An hour later, they left with former President Juan Orlando Hernandez (“JOH”) on board, on their way to New York where he will face trial.
Maria Choc: “I haven't robbed anyone. I haven't murdered anyone. I am an Indigenous woman defending her territories, her lands, her rights”
Maria Choc - sister-in-law of killed community defender Adolfo Ich, sister of Angelica Choc, sister of Ramiro Choc (spent 6 years in jail as a political prisoner – goes to court today, again, to face corrupted criminal charges for her land, rights and environmental defense work.
Family of murdered Mexican anti-mining land defender Mariano Abarca to challenge complicity of Canadian government before Supreme Court of Canada
“We are being denied our right to know the truth about the pressure the Canadian embassy exerted on Mexican authorities and how that could have played a role in the brutal murder of my father.”
(Jose Luis Abarca, son of murdered Mariano Abarca)
Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala Shortlisted for “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes”
The “Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes” is awarded “to the author(s) and/or illustrators of an original work of published writing (poetry, fiction or nonfiction for adults or children, including graphic novels or picture books) that challenges or provokes the ideas and forces that shape what writing, art, and/or society can become.” https://bcyukonbookprizes.com/categories-and-criteria/jim-deva-prize-for-writing-that-provokes/
ICE War Crimes Center pursuing Guatemalan war criminals that participated in the Chixoy Dam / Rio Negro massacres in Rabinal region
Below, a moving and detailed Washington Post article about the work of the ICE Office for Human Rights Violators and War Crimes Center pursuing war criminals, many being former US allies living in the US.
Goldcorp and Newmont human rights records being reviewed in the Yukon as Newmont Goldcorp Corporation seeks to operate Coffee Gold Project near Dawson City
The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) rejected submissions concerning well-documented and rampant human rights abuses at Goldcorp’s Marlin mine in Guatemala, claiming that they needed to verify and vet the sources in “Testimonio: Canadian Mines in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala”, a book twice vetted by libel, defamation lawyers before publication in October 2021 by Between The Lines.
Rights Action April 2022 Newsletter
Your Funds At Work
To date in 2022, Rights Action has sent $90,000 of your donations to support human rights and justice struggles, land, territory and environmental defense struggles, and emergency response work in Honduras and Guatemala, and also in El Salvador.