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U.S. jury finds that Chiquita Banana financed death squads in Colombia. Victims win historic verdict
“This historic ruling marks the first time that an American jury has held a major U.S. corporation liable for complicity in serious human rights abuses in another country, a milestone for justice. This verdict sends a powerful message to corporations everywhere: profiting from human rights abuses will not go unpunished. These families, victimized by armed groups and corporations, asserted their power and prevailed in the judicial process,”
(Marco Simons, EarthRights International General Counsel)
Rights Action Newsletter - July 2024
An extraordinary trial is taking place in Guatemalan courts, to hold former Guatemalan Army Chief of Staff Manuel Benedicto Lucas García accountable for the crime of genocide. The trial is receiving little to no media coverage in the US, Canada and Western Europe, likely because the genocides in Guatemala were supported and enabled by the US (primarily) and to a lesser extent by Western Europe (Britain and France, notably) and Canada.
New documentary film: ‘The Night Won’t End’: Biden’s War on Gaza
Not Breaking News (July 6, 2024)
16 killed in Israeli attack on UNRWA-run school
Exposing, denouncing and challenging the Monroe Doctrine
Rights Action shares this excellent two-part article by James Phillips, to expose again the fundamental imperialism of the US and ‘the West’, past and present.
45 years in jail: Former U.S. & Canadian-backed, drug-trafficking President of Honduras
It is impossible overstate how complicit the U.S. and Canada are in having supported, enabled and legitimized for close to 13 years the repressive, “open for global business”, drug-trafficking regime headed by former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, sentenced on June 26 to 45 years on charges of drug-trafficking.
Ojala - Bilingual, on-line weekly dedicated to going deeper on issues of concern in Latin America
-- Rights Action recommends the Ojala news outlet --
Maya Q’eqchi’ plaintiffs in landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits facing on-going health, hunger and climate crisis harms
As the Hudbay lawsuits proceed in their 14th year in Canadian courts, Rights Action continues to provide small grants to the 13 plaintiffs who have forever lived at a subsistence poverty level in a normal, let alone when extra harms occur.
Ixil Genocide Trial: There was “a clear intention to exterminate”
This extraordinary Genocide Trial in Guatemala is receiving little to no media coverage in US, Canada and Western Europe, most likely because the Genocides in Guatemala were supported and enabled by the US (primarily) and to a lesser extent by Western Europe (Britain and France, notably) and Canada.
Don’t look away from Palestine
Rights Action urges folks in the US and Canada to get involved / stay involved in work and activism related to Israel’s ethnic cleansing, genocidal attack on Palestine that is supported and legitimized by the US and Canada, Germany, Britain, France and other EU countries, and Australia. This is “our” issue in the US and Canada. Here, a few recent reports …