Sign Our Petition to Protect Colombian Land Rights Leaders
by Vanessa Kritzer
on March 01, 2012
Our Colombian partners need our help! This Tuesday, March 6th, the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) will lead rallies across Colombia demanding protection, respect, and complete return of lands to those who have had to flee their homes due to paramilitary, guerrilla and army violence in Colombia.
Will you add your name to our letter supporting their march and calling for their protection? (Para leer y firmar la petición en español, haga clic aquí.)
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Are Your Valentine's Flowers From Colombia?
by Vanessa and Lisa, LAWG's Colombia Team
on February 14, 2012
Did you know that 60% of flowers bought in the United States come from Colombia? Nearly 100,000 mostly female flower workers have been working 16- to 18-hour days for poverty-level wages to get us the flowers that thousands of people will buy today.
This Valentine’s Day, take action to support these flower workers in their struggle for fair wages, equal treatment, justice, and dignity!
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Traveling to Cuba? Read this first
by LAWG Cuba Team, Mavis, Emily and Carly
on February 28, 2012
Are the Florida Straits getting smaller, or are more bridges being built?
In mid-January of 2011, President Obama eased travel restrictions for ordinary U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba through organizations holding "people-to-people" licenses, granted by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He also granted general licenses (no pre-authorization required) for religious organizations and educational institutions. While this is substantial progress, our work is far from over.
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Deadly Attacks Against Colombian Human Rights Defenders
by Lisa Haugaard
on February 06, 2012
Colombian human rights activists, defensores or “defenders” as they call themselves, take huge risks for speaking out. Fifty-four defenders were murdered in Colombia from July 2010 to May 2011. Whenever a community objects to the way their territory is being used, especially by mining companies and other extractive industries, then death threats, and worse, follow. Whenever a family member seeks justice for the death or disappearance of their loved one, they face threats and attacks as well. This past December, I participated in an international mission to Colombia to investigate the threats to human rights defenders, and what we learned was shocking.
To read my blog post about what we heard from hundreds of human rights activists across Colombia, click here.
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Stop Funding Abusive Military in Honduras
by Vanessa Kritzer and Lisa Haugaard
on February 26, 2012
In the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras, not a day goes by in which human rights activists do not face threats, torture, repression of free speech, and assassinations. Who is committing these abuses? Not only private security guards and hired assassins, but also Honduran military and police agents that receive aid and training from the U.S. Government.
Take action today to end the violence and push for justice in Honduras!
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Legal Victory against Gun Trafficking
by Ben Leiter and Jenny Johnson
on February 01, 2012
We’re moving full speed ahead with the “Stop Gun Smuggling to Mexico” campaign and want to make sure to keep you in the loop. We’ve seen some small but significant progress lately, and there are a number of exciting developments on the horizon that we want you to know about, so check out the updates below!
If you haven’t already, click here to tell President Obama to stop gun smuggling into Mexico.
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