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Secundino Ruiz, president of the cooperative San Isidro, was killed in San Isidro, Tocoa, Columbus, around 11:30 am on Saturday, August 20. The now deceased campesino leader was driving a vehicle, together with the treasurer of the cooperative, Eliseo Pavón, when he was shot several times by individuals who were driving a motorcycle. Eliseo Pavón was only slightly wounded and is in his home, according to sources. The cooperative San Isidro started a legal fight against Miguel Facussé […]
August 10, 2011
During its July meeting in Marakesh the CDM Executive Board, which is a UN entity (UNFCCC), decided that it could not withdraw registration for Honduras’ Dinant Corporation (owned by Miguel Facusse) on allegations that it lacks logistics to review claims on Human Rights abuses at the field level. According to a media article: “Martin Hession, […]
June 8, 2011
The Popular Network of Aguan received access to the following declaration of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) in the province of Colon . The FNRP in the province of Colon DENOUNCES, to the international community, to national and international human rights organisms, and to the Honduran people, the continuation of the policies of kidnapping, […]
June 6, 2011
José Recinos Aguilar, Joel Santamaría y Genaro Cuesta, all members of the San Esteban peasant cooperative were murdered [on Sunday, June 5 ] while driving a Nissan vehicle a few meters from the settlement. There are yet no details of how the attack occurred, read a statement by FIAN-Honduras. The report said the military, police, and […]
May 18, 2011
Sixto Ramos (45), a member of the campesino cooperative Nueva Suyapa, of the Peasant Movement of Aguán, MCA, was murdered at about eight o’clock on Wednesday, 18 May, shot several times from a passing car, when he was going to his organization. This is one of several murders in recent days. On May 9, Roney Diaz […]
April 22, 2011
The lifeless bodies of Tarin Daniel Garcia Enamorado, 26 years old and three children, found decapitated – and his father-in-law, Mr. Carlos Alberto Acosta Canales, five children, with his hands tied, both campesinos members of the Movimiento Autentico Campesino del Aguan (MUCA), were found in Ocotes Altos, on the left bank of the Aguan River […]
March 31, 2011
Video report about agrarian reform in Honduras.
March 5, 2011
Tegucigalpa, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) A total of 19 Honduran peasants were killed in Bajo Aguan from Jan 2010 until today and all the crimes remain unpunished, an international mission that visited the area reported. During the investigation that was conducted between Feb 25 and Mar 4, the group found numerous violations of human rights. […]
March 4, 2011
Between February 23rd and March 4th 2011 an international mission composed of six networks and international organizations, supported by national organizations, conducted a study in situ, in order to evaluate the situation of human rights in the Bajo Aguán region in Honduras. In this context, the mission held meetings with different peasant organizations and communities […]
November 15, 2010
In response to the persistent violence in the Aguán Valley and the manipulative intent on the part of many communication media, we must remember important events that clarify the conflict over land tenure in what was known as the Regional Center for Military Training (CREM). In 1977, Temístocles Ramírez, a United States citizen of Puerto […]
June 13, 2010
Concerned about human rights violations in the wake of agrarian conflict between landowners and farmers, FIAN Honduras has intensified its visits in situ to verify the allegations they often receive. The findings are dramatic. Poverty and violent actions that claim human lives have increased. In the Lower Aguán, this year alone, 10 people have been […]
April 10, 2010
The negotiations between the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA) and the landowners in Bajo Aguán have been carried out against the backdrop of continued aggression against the peasants of that organization. The media–newspapers, radio and television–with few exceptions, have turned to denigrate the campesinos accusing them of conspiring against the national economy and of […]
March 20, 2010
The inadequate agricultural policy launched after 1992 led to the enactment of the Modernization and Development of the Agricultural Sector Law, which is the cause of a deepening poverty in the rural sector and the violent conflicts that are increasingly taking lives. Yesterday, March 17, Jose Antonio Cardoza and Jose Carias, directors of the cooperative […]
March 15, 2010
On February 24, a conference took place in the European Parliament on EU responses to the crisis of democracy and human rights in Honduras. The conference was convened by a number of international and European networks, such as APRODEV, ALOP, CIFCA, FIDH, Grupo Sur and FIAN International. Together with Diakonie Germany, FIAN prepared an Aide […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
August 22, 2011
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