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Honduras: News & Updates

Honduras did not experience civil war in the 1980s, but its geography (bordering El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) made it a key location for US military operations: training Salvadoran soldiers, a base for Nicaraguan contras, military exercises for US troops. The notorious Honduran death squad Battalion 316 was created, funded and trained by the US. The state-sponsored terror resulted in the forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of approximately 200 people during the 1980s. Many more were abducted and tortured. The 2009 military coup d’etat spawned a resurgence of state repression against the civilian population that continues today.

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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 7/21/2004
July 21, 2004
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RRN Letter
RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/12/2004
June 12, 2004
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 6/3/2004
June 3, 2004
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 5/12/2004
May 12, 2004
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 4/14/2004
April 14, 2004
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 4/1/2004
April 1, 2004
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RRN Letter: Honduras, 1/12/2004
January 12, 2004
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Webinar: Who Killed Berta Cáceres?
Guardian journalist Nina Lakhani discusses her new book Who Killed Berta Caceres: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet.Why was this powerful leader killed? Who was behind it? Why does her fate matter to the world?
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LGBTQI Experiences: in country and along the path of migration
Advocates have said that being LGBTQ substantially increases vulnerability to violence, with transgender individuals facing the highest risk. Neither El Salvador, Honduras, or Guatemala have laws protecting people from violence or discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. For this reason we have seen many LGBTQI individuals make the difficult choice to migrate. This report explores the exacerbated risks that LGBTQI individuals face in their home countries, along the path of migration, and especially within U.S. immigration detention camps.
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IRTF Policy Packet: August 2019
IRTF takes annual advocacy trips to Washington D.C. to speak with officers in each of our representatives' and senators' W.D.C offices. We express our cries of just policy that promotes freedom, justice, peace, and dignity for our neighbors in this hemisphere. We promote humane immigration policy that sees those arriving at our southern border as refugees rather than criminals, policy that restricts the neoliberal neocolonialist actions of trans and multi-national corporations, and a budget that significantly cuts military aid to central and South America and Mexico, among other issues.
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