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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.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, an Igorot from the Cordillera region in the Philippines.
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)
Dear Érica
We have bad news. The people rising to defend their land rights are still not safe. This is why we wonder whether we should only aspire to global action. Isn't the death of Berta Cáceres, who fought for her people’s land rights, painful enough for you not to commit to continuing this struggle?
Stop the construction of the Agua Zarca dam
Murdered for exercising peaceful resistance
In the past two weeks, unfortunately, it has once again been proven that the issue of land rights is often accompanied by violence. In a peaceful effort to prevent the construction of the Agua Zarca dam in Honduras, internationally renowned environmentalist and land rights defender Berta Cáceres, who had received the Goldman Environmental Prize, was assassinated. She was a leader and founder of COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), the organization that defends the rights of the Lenca Indigenous people. The dam would block Indigenous Lenca people's access to the Gualcarque River, which is sacred to them and also a vital source of food and water.
Retiro Inmediato
A pesar de la violencia, los inversores internacionales han continuando apoyando la construcción de la represa. El Dutch Development Bank (FMO), uno de los inversores, anunció la suspensión inmediata de la inversión y congelamiento de los pagos para la represa. Éste es un primer paso muy importante, pero no suficiente. El FMO debería retirarse inmediatamente y trabajar en su política de derechos, de esta manera los conflictos podrían ser prevenidos!
Hay que continuar con el esfuerzo
Hay que demandar la inmediata salida del Banco FMO.
Honduras da luz verde para destruir el ecosistema mejor preservado del paÃs (Leo Cerna). Ver video: