Features / Criminalization of COPINH
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2 March 2018 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Two years after the murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras
COPINH´s position in response to arrest of David Castillo, president of DESA
By the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Read more
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8 June 2017 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Justice for Berta!
Court hearing of the accused of Berta Cáceres’ murder in Honduras
Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean - ATALC - and Friends of the Earth International - FoEI Read more
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13 March 2017 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Environment for Peace | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Participation of women: key for the building of peace with social and environmental justice
By CENSAT Agua Viva - Friends of the Earth Colombia
March is a month colored with strength and resistance, because in addition to the International Day of Women´s Struggles, we commemorate a year of Berta Cáceres´ murder and today, her legacy in defense of free water, sovereign territories and women leadership continues to be strengthened in numerous territories. Read more
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28 November 2016 | Videos | Criminalization of COPINH | Financialization of nature | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Real World Radio – Friends of the Earth International 2015 – 2016
This Monday, Real World Radio (RWR) presented a short video summarizing the work carried out by the radio in 2015 and 2016 at the Biennial General Assembly of Friends of the Earth International (FoEI, the federation to which the radio belongs), which is taking place in South Lampung Regency, Indonesia. The video is also a tribute to the work of FoEI in these past two years. Watch video
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27 October 2016 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | Week of Mobilization in Geneva | Berta lives on!
Ongoing international pressure on Honduran government
Social movements and organizations of the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and End Impunity delivered on Thursday a letter to the Permanent Mission of Honduras in Geneva, where they demand justice over the murder of environmental and human rights defenders in the Central American country. Read more
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16 August 2016 | Videos | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Campaign by COPINH to strengthen Communications
"Communication is a tool for capacity-building, it allows us to have a wide reach and it provides us with diversity to create new things adapted to our reality, for instance, with community radios, because many people in our region can´t read or write and the radio is key. This is why we continue in our efforts to strengthen the radio, an essential part of the political process of COPINH". Watch video
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7 July 2016 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras
Lesbia Yaneth lives on!
Interview with COPINH´s coordinator about another case of political feminicide
Four months after the murder of leader Berta Cáceres, the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has to regret another political feminicide. Yesterday, leader Lesbia Yaneth Urquía, renowned community activist in the defense of common goods and against the Aurora I hydroelectric project, in San José municipality, La Paz department, was murdered. Read more
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23 June 2016 | Chronicles | Criminalization of COPINH | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
New murders in Honduras: in this case, youth leaders who were participating in land recovery processes
The Regional Agrarian Platform of Valle del Aguán, Honduras, denounced on Monday afternoon the murder of Alan Reyneri Martínez Pérez (19) and Manuel Milla (25), members of the “Gregorio Chávez” Peasant Project of Panamá Community, Trujillo, Colón, before the eyes of many children who were watching a football match. Read more
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17 June 2016 | Interviews | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Organizations and social movements push for legally binding treaty on corporations and human rights at the UN
The Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity & for Peoples Sovereignty carried out on Thursday a side event at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Read more
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24 May 2016 | Videos | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Land grabbing | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
“Defend environmental defenders. Stop Agua Zarca”
This is the beginning of a short animation recently launched by environmental federation Friends of the Earth International and the movement of consumers and workers Some of Us. Through it, they are pressuring financial institutions that are supporting the hydroelectric project Agua Zarca in Honduras to withdraw their funds from the venture. Watch video
