- The fight for the land continues one year after the assassination of Berta Cáceres, and so do the threats By Laura Salas, Translation by Facundo Ercole Leer en español I’ve been a warrior because I’m from a town which is full of warriors. Berta Cáceres, founder of the Concejo Cívico Popular de Honduras (COPINH) [Honduras Popular Civic Council], has become an icon in the fight of hundreds communities across the Mesoamerica and the rest […]
- This Week on the Human Rights Channel: Syria, Mexico, Honduras Images and first person accounts from Syrian refugees, a Mexican student who survived a deadly police attack, and Honduran villagers evicted from their homes.
- This Week in Human Rights Video: Honduras, Pakistan, Cambodia Indigenous rights activists in Honduras describe the fear of living among known killers of human rights defenders. Cambodian villagers who brought their protest to the capital make a step forward in a long running land dispute.
- In Honduras, Murder on the Eve of Presidential Elections As violence and intimidation surrounded the Honduran elections, two activists from the leftist LIBRE party were killed.
- Human Rights Channel Weekly Update: Protests in Ukraine and Thailand This week protests in the Ukraine and Thailand threaten the stability of those two governments, while the next government of Honduras is up in the air following last month's contested elections. Drone footage, protest videos, and international observers bring us images of those and other human rights stories.
- Human Rights Video Weekly: YouTube Reality TV Show from the Gaza Strip This week we bring you a YouTube reality show from the Gaza Strip, interviews with displaced campesinos in Honduras, and a march against sexual violence in Kenya.
- Targeted Killings in the Bajo Aguán Valley of Honduras Citizen video tells the story of the exhumation of one campesino in Honduras in a region where dozens of campesinos have gone missing or been killed in the past three years.
- Human Rights Archives: Report from SAA, Part 1 Last week, I attended the annual conference of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) in Washington, DC. There were a number of sessions relevant to human rights archives and archivists this year, most notably the inaugural meeting of the new Human Rights Archives Roundtable, and the panel it organized with the Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives Roundtable, entitled "Silence No More! Archives Threatened by Political Instability."
