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Public Statement: Organizations Condemn Violence Against Garifuna Communities in Honduras
( Image Description: Armed police in Nueva Armenia, Honduras. Image Credits: Ofraneh ) We, the undersigned organizations, condemn the...
Oct 17, 20243 min read
Members of US Progressive Caucus met with President Xiomara Castro of Honduras
By Julián Arturo On March 19, 2022, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective in collaboration with SOA Watch, CISPES, and other...
Apr 25, 20225 min read
Trial of Guapinol Water Protectors Continues in Honduras
By John Walsh Since January 13th, the trial of 8 community activists and water protectors from Guapinol, Honduras has been under way in...
Jan 31, 20222 min read
December 2021: Evictions in the Bajo Aguan Region, Honduras
By: Matthew Bridges Context in Brief: Since May 2021, the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective team has been accompanying agricultural...
Dec 18, 20214 min read
Jilamito Hydroelectric Project: A Framework of Economic Power
Original article published in spanish by Redacción CRITERIO.HN Text and graphics: Marcia Perdomo Editing: Emy Padilla Photographs:...
Mar 11, 202111 min read
Jilamito River Protectors and the War for Water in Honduras
Original article published in spanish by Redacción CRITERIO.HN Please also see Part 2 and Part 3 of this Criterio series on Jilamito....
Feb 11, 202110 min read
COVID-19 Crisis in Honduras: What it Means for our WfP-SC Team and Partners on the Ground
By Corie Welch On Sunday night, I made the extremely difficult decision to leave Honduras and return to the United States to continue my...
Mar 20, 20207 min read
Unsafe Third: Failure and Hypocrisy of the Asylum Cooperation Agreement
By Corie Welch On January 7 the body of Cinthia Abigail Fernandez, a young woman from northern Honduras, was found in Huehuetenango,...
Jan 17, 20206 min read
CUMPLIENDO EL COMPROMISO CON RAMÓN FIALLOS
By John Walsh Cuando hondureños y hondureñas se movilizan en la resistencia, como lo han sido haciendo más y más en el paÃs entero en el...
Jul 22, 20193 min read
KEEPING FAITH WITH RAMÓN FIALLOS
By John Walsh When Hondurans mobilize in resistance, as they increasingly have been doing nationwide for the past two months, the Ramón...
Jul 22, 20193 min read
No Es Delito
El Colectivo de Solidaridad de Acción Permanente por la Paz declara nuestra solidaridad con  los 9 miembros de la comunidad Tolupan, San...
Jun 23, 20196 min read
Not a Crime
Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective declares our solidarity with 9 members of the Tolupán community of San Francisco de Locomapa who...
Jun 23, 20195 min read
Fighting to Protect the Forest in Honduras
Many in the U.S. are unaware of the connection between refugees fleeing Honduras, and the struggle there for environmental justice. by...
May 19, 20194 min read
The Call to Conscience Committee Takes Aim at Elliott Abrams
In the wake of the appointment of war criminal Elliott Abrams as Trump’s special envoy to Venezuela, a group of concerned activists is...
Apr 22, 20198 min read
The Berta Cáceres Case in Context: The Campaign Against Human Rights Defenders in Honduras
The assassination of Berta Cáceres has, for good reason, become an emblematic case in the conversation around human rights abuses in...
Mar 7, 201913 min read
‘Broken Windows’ in Honduras: Giuliani and NYPD contracted as consultants for Honduran security
On May 10, 2018, a high-level delegation of Honduran security officials led by Security Minister Julian Pacheco was in New York City for...
May 30, 20183 min read
When Defamation is the Prelude to Violence
On September 26, 2018, we released a statement expressing our solidarity with the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ in...
May 29, 20183 min read
Solidarity Statement with the October Migrant Caravan
Witness for Peace Midwest proclaims our wholehearted solidarity with the caravan of migrants currently moving through Guatemala from...
May 29, 20182 min read
Jailed Before He Was Born
An interview by Melissa Cox Albertina López Melgar, a member of the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice (MADJ, for its initials in...
Mar 22, 20188 min read
Open Letter on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Assassination of Berta Cáceres
As we approach the second anniversary of the murder of the renowned indigenous, feminist human rights defender Berta Cáceres, the need...
Mar 2, 20187 min read
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