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After two years of threats, persecution and attacks, the forces of capital and the Honduran State dared murder Berta Cáceres. The leader of the Lenca people and COPINH is and will continue to be one of the greatest examples of indigenous, feminist and popular activism of our times.
Indigenous, farmer and environmental movements in defense of human rights in Latin America and the world are outraged by this atrocious crime. We unite our voices demanding justice, that these death governments stop and that the autonomy and rights of the peoples are prioritized over profits and despotic powers.
They physically disappeared Berta, but the attack was against all peoples who resist and who will undoubtedly intensify the struggles carried out by this great woman.
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6 July 2018 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Trial over Berta Cáceres murder to start on September 10th
Her daughter, Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, told Real World Radio that this may be a “historical trial”, although the people who masterminded the murder won´t be tried. Read more
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2 March 2018 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Two years after the murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras
COPINH´s position in response to arrest of David Castillo, president of DESA
By the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Read more
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8 June 2017 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Activities in Geneva for binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Justice for Berta!
Court hearing of the accused of Berta Cáceres’ murder in Honduras
Friends of the Earth Latin America and the Caribbean - ATALC - and Friends of the Earth International - FoEI Read more
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25 April 2017 | Special reports | Berta lives on!
Honduras: indigenous and Garifuna mobilization demands prior, real and legitimate consultation
“When the government tells us that we are not indigenous people, they are taking our culture away (...) we can´t accept that the right to prior consultation is limited to a few people invited to luxury hotels". This was Maura Eligia Duarte, of the Pech indigenous people of Honduras, during a mobilization outside the United Nations Office in Tegucigalpa, which protested against what is considered by Garifuna and indigenous organizations as the manipulation of the free, prior and informed consultation principle related to megaprojects in the territory. Read more
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30 March 2017 | Interviews | Berta lives on!
Honduras: new report reveals corruption network for the approval of Agua Zarca hydroelectric project
A new report published by Oxfam reveals a network of corruption and traffic of influence in the granting of contracts and operation permits for the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project, demanding its permanent closure and bringing light to the murder of Lenca leader, Berta Cáceres, which took place in March 2016. Read more
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14 March 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Berta lives on!
In the framework of the one-year anniversary of Berta Cáceres´ murder, the UN process to regulate corporate human rights violations is “speeding up”
The report launched last week by the Intergovernmental Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated to elaborate a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations was “an important step” towards the third round of negotiations to take place in October, stated Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) on Monday. Read more
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13 March 2017 | News | Criminalization of COPINH | Free Honduras | Environment for Peace | Social activists at risk | Berta lives on!
Participation of women: key for the building of peace with social and environmental justice
By CENSAT Agua Viva - Friends of the Earth Colombia
March is a month colored with strength and resistance, because in addition to the International Day of Women´s Struggles, we commemorate a year of Berta Cáceres´ murder and today, her legacy in defense of free water, sovereign territories and women leadership continues to be strengthened in numerous territories. Read more
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9 March 2017 | Photo Galleries | Berta lives on!
Historic demonstration in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay
Tens of thousands of women marched this March 8th down the main avenue of Montevideo, capital city of Uruguay, in the context of a strike called by the trade union center Pit Cnt, joining the mobilizations that took place in at least 50 cities around the globe. See gallery
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2 March 2017 | Interviews | Berta lives on!
Interview with Tomás Gómez, COPINH coordinator: global action #JusticeForBerta a year after her murder
From February 27th to March 4th, 2017, to mark the one-year anniversary of Berta Cáceres´ murder, her organization, COPINH, together with hundreds of organizations around the world, will mobilize and carry out actions to denounce the ongoing impunity, to shed light on the risks faced by nature and territory defenders, especially in Honduras, and to continue demanding clarification of the circumstances surrounding Berta´s murder. Read more
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15 February 2017 | Interviews | Berta lives on!
Interview with Laura Zúñiga, of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras - COPINH
Two weeks before the anniversary of the murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, Real World Radio interviewed one of her daughters about the resistance of communities against corporations and the factual powers in the territories. Read more
