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Invitation Event
In the memory of Berta Cáceres:
An exceptional indigenous woman
Extraordinary environmental rights defender in Honduras has been killed and Gustavo Castro Soto, also an extraordinary environmental rights defender from Mexico, was the only witness to this murder.
Please go to this site at the Center for International Environmental Law and read more: Link.
Then please send in your support for the protection of the life of Gustavo Castro Soto.
The murder of Honduran Indigenous woman Berta Caceres is only too familiar to Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
All around the world, Indigenous peoples are murdered, raped and kidnapped when their lands fall in the path of deforestation, mining and construction. According to the group Global Witness, one Indigenous person was killed almost every week in 2015 because of their environmental activism, 40 percent of the total 116 people killed for environmental activism (see more)
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, an Igorot from the Cordillera region in the Philippines.
Honduras gives the green light to destroy the best preserved ecosystem in the country (Leo Cerna). See video:
The struggle of Berta Caceres for the indigenous people of Honduras. see video: