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View Article  Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on rights activists reaching 'worrying proportions'
Amnesty International UK has just published a 32 page report documenting a recent wave of human rights abuses:

The level of threats, intimidation, attacks and killings of activists in Honduras and Guatemala who campaign to defend the rights of marginalised communities is reaching 'worrying proportions' said Amnesty International today (8 August) as it published its new report.  

Amnesty International's report - Persecution and Resistance: The experience of human rights defenders in Guatemala and Honduras - exposes a systematic pattern of attacks against those who defend the rights of marginalised communities, including indigenous peoples and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
 
Director of Amnesty International's Americas Programme, Susan Lee, said:

'Those who protect others from suffering human rights violations end up suffering abuses themselves. The insecurity of human rights activists in Honduras and In Guatemala is reaching worrying proportions.
 
'Threats, intimidation, unfounded criminal charges and killings of activists in Honduras and Guatemala are designed to stop them from protecting people's rights, particularly when their work goes against powerful economic interests,' said Susan Lee.

# Read a copy of the report Persecution and Resistance: The Experience of Human Rights Defenders in Honduras and Guatemala
# Take action to protect human rights defenders at risk in Honduras
# Listen to an audio report from human right defender Dina Meza
View Article  Campesino Organisations Demand Justice on Land Rights

Se acordó hacer la mesa de diálogo en la banqueta de la calle, en frente del edificio ocupado.

We received this press release from CUC:

LAS POLITICAS IMPLEMENTADAS DE ESTE GOBIERNO NO RESUELVEN LA CONFLICTIVIDAD AGRARIA.

Durante este gobierno se ha dado una oleada de desalojos violentos, asesinatos y persecución de los dirigentes de las comunidades que luchan por la recuperación y defensa de la madre  tierra.
 
La política de desagrarización de la conflictividad Rural no se resuelve con la creación de otros fondos como el caso de la reactivación de la economía campesina, la compra de fincas rápidas sin profundizar en la certeza jurídica de la propiedad, los programas de arrendamiento de tierras,  por parte del MAGA; por otra parte está la política de créditos individuales por parte del Fondo de Tierras, la creación de los centros de arbitraje agrario que sólo vienen a generar dispersión y gastos innecesarios para evadir de fondo la crisis agraria.

Por otra parte, la compra de tierras improductivas, la sobrevaloración de tierras, la falta de capital de trabajo, la facilitación de los medios de producción que han accesado  a la tierra ha agudizado más  pobreza y extrema pobreza en el campo y la ciudad. Por lo anteriormente expuesto,

SOLICITAMOS

1.Suspender las amenazas de desalojos a las comunidades que han accesado a tierras por parte del Fondo de Tierras y Banrural.
2.La renegociación de los créditos atorgados a través del Fondo de Tierras, en base a un nuevo avalúo de las fincas.
3.La condonación de las deudas de algunas fincas que no tienen posibilidades de pago.

¡La tierra es Nuestra Madre, no se compra ni se vende, se recupera y se DEFIENDE!

Comité de Unidad Campesina CUC, miembro de CNOC, MICSP, WAKIB’ KEJ, CLOC Y Vía Campesina

You can see more photos of the occupation and protest organised by CUC and CNOC at FONTIERRAS here.

Thanks Mikkel Moldrup-Lakjer for this information. The copy of the Act that was signed by FONTIERRAS, CNOC and CUC is attached.
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