Nongovernmental Letters on U.S. Policy towards Latin America

Organizaciones internacionales condenan el asesinato de abogado defensor de derechos humanos de campesinos y campesinas del Bajo Aguan y de fiscal especial para los derechos humanaos. Haga click aqui para leer el comunicado en su totalidad.

International Organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguán, Honduras.

We, the undersigned international organisations and civil society networks, would like to express our severe concern with respect to the recent acts of repression, violence and criminalization of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguán.

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The Public Hearing on the Human Rights Situation in the Peasant Communities of Bajo Aguán, Honduras, was convened by nine organizations and international networks that in recent years have been monitoring the human rights situation in Honduras and in particular that of the peasant communities in the Bajo Aguán region.  This monitoring effort has been carried out in coordination with local organizations.

On February 9th 2011, several faith and nongovernmental organizations sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Homeland Security Janey Napolitano, in order to call for temporary protected status for Gautemalans. 

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