Land and Territory: Sovereignty, Culture and Resistance
This month, as we wrap up our celebration of the 25th anniversary of food sovereignty, we’re highlighting our partners’ struggles for land and territory.
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OFRANEH Honored with Human Rights Award
The Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award's recognition of our partner OFRANEH comes at a time of deep crisis in the country — and ongoing defense of territory and human rights by Garifuna communities.
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As Key Suspect Tried, Encampment Demands Justice for Berta Cáceres
After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved movement leader Berta Cáceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. But the corruption goes much deeper than Castillo. So movements have encamped outside the Supreme Court.
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Defending the World’s Oceans, Water, and People
For World Oceans Day, we are taking a look at the ways movements are defending water, oceans and people from the various threats they face.
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The Garifuna Struggle in Honduras: “They are calling us ‘invaders’ of our own land”
On this Earth Day, we recognize the links between human rights and the rights of Mother Earth and we stand with those defending land, water, forests and all forms of territory. The following interview was conducted by Real World Radio...
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Social Movements Lead Recovery from Devastating Back-to-back Hurricanes in Central America
What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two Hurricanes Hit Mesoamerica — Solidarity Needed!
Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant/small-scale farming communities in Honduras and Guatemala are facing devastating floods from Hurricane Eta and Iota. They’re now losing their homes and hundreds of hectares of crops after an already difficult year. Climate change has driven the...
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Defending Black Lives Around the World
Our struggles are connected. This Black August, Grassroots International is proud to restate our solidarity with Black lives, here and around the world.
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Environmental Defender Murdered in Honduras
Presente Edwin Fernández! Edwin provided security in a community where our partner, the Black Fraternal Organization of Hondurans (OFRANEH), is doing COVID relief. He is just one of the many environmental, land and Indigenous rights defenders who have been killed in recent years.
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Violence Against Indigenous Hondurans Shows Us What Fuels Migration
The Garifuna and our partner OFRANEH in Honduras have been facing down armed assaults this month. It's a concrete example of the violence that is driving people north to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Garifuna Face Attack, Contact Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
We have been receiving on-the-ground updates from OFRANEH about the most recent wave of violence, oppression and forced eviction they are facing. Narco-traffickers have invaded Vallecito, an important home for many Garifuna.
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World Indigenous People’s Day: Supporting Defense and Dignity
August 9th is the United Nations’ International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Grassroots International supports Indigenous social movements around the world. This blog looks at the threats facing these communities, and the resistance they’re waging.
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Why the Dangers Facing Our Oceans Go Far Beyond Keeping Them Clean
If we’re serious about protecting our oceans and the life beneath them, our vision needs to expand. As Miriam Miranda, coordinator of OFRANEH, has said, “If the problem is global, we have to have a global response.”
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Honduran Coup Cruelly Creates Migrant Exodus
Our Honduran partners, including Miriam Miranda of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), participated in a congress of resistance of Black and Indigenous women. The following statement is a product of the discussions there, among grassroots feminists organizing against the dictatorship and deeper oppressions.
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Illuminated Legacy: Celebrating 500 Years of African & Native People’s Resistance
In celebration of 516th anniversary of Native and African anti-colonial resistance in the Americas, CLACS is hosting a presentation and conversation by notable and renowned leaders Miriam Miranda and Tom Goldtooth. About the speakers: Miriam Miranda is the General Coordinator...
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Imprisoned: Inside the Politics of Control and Resistance
From Brazilian mass movement building to pinpoint alternatives and retain the countryside, to Honduran reclamation of natural resources through food sovereignty, agroecology, and climate justice, to relentless Palestinian efforts of upholding international law and defending human rights, people are challenging destructive political orders. Doing so is a collective act of resilience and resistance, ‘grabbing back’ in order to move forward in uncertain times.
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Black Lives and Climate Justice: Courage and Power
Grassroots staff member Sara Mersha shares examples of the leadership of Black communities and social movements in the struggle for climate justice, in a recent article published in Third World Quarterly.