We recommend reading the article below by Pamela Yates.

“It has been 30 years of struggle against corruption and impunity, against governmental abuses and terrorism,
in favor of freedom transparency and accountability” (El Periodico director Ruben Zamora, final editorial, written from prison cell)

In the 1990s, Alfredo spent over 6 years as a political prisoner in Honduran jails for his work and activism in defense of Garifuna land and human rights, threated by corrupt, violent for-export African palm producers and international tourism operators.

Rights Action is heartened to see this lawsuit filed in Canada, against Barrick Gold, 2nd largest gold mining company in the world. Meanwhile, we continue with our support for the Maya Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs in the landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits, first filed in 2010, trying to hold Hudbay accountable in Ontario, Canada courts for mining-linked violence in Guatemala.

Rights Action encourages folks to attend this webinar with the La Puya resistance struggle in Guatemala.

We recommend two recent podcast episodes from Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast.

Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday. This year we are fundraising to support OFRANEH and the Garifuna land defenders and people in Honduras.

“In colonial times, 30,000 white slavers in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) had no chance of survival among 450 000 enslaved Africans, unless they benefited from the unflinching support of the armies of France, Britain, or Spain. This was the slavers’ real source of power and dominance.”

“U.S. sanctions Solway executives, for running "multiple bribery schemes over the years involving Guatemalan politicians, judges and officials..." and "illegally giving cash payments to public officials in exchange for support of […] mining interests."