HONDURAS, 3 Mar. (Notimérica) -. La activista hondureña y coordinadora del Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH), Berta Cáceres, ha sido asesinada este ...30 may 2017 ... Si alguna vez hubo un Nelson Mandela hondureño, tuvo que haber sido Berta Cáceres ... Honduras (COPINH), ha vigorizado a las comunidades ...March 3, 2021 marked the five-year anniversary of the assassination of Berta Cáceres, the beloved Honduran Indigenous and environmental rights leader, and the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act was re-introduced to continue the call for justice. The Berta Cáceres Act is a landmark bill introduced by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA).2 mar 2019 ... Berta logró organizar al pueblo lenca, la mayor etnia indígena de Honduras, en su lucha contra la represa de Agua Zarca. La construcción ...Berta Cáceres co-founded COPINH to defend the Lenca community, one of Honduras’ largest indigenous groups. In the face of constant threats that ultimately took her life, she secured victories and a legacy of advocacy by and on behalf of the Lenca’s rights to land and water. ... Honduras has in recent years become the deadliest country for …Last modified on Wed 25 Aug 2021 09.57 EDT. The murder of environmental and indigenous rights activist Berta Cáceres has sparked violent clashes in Honduras despite promises by President Juan ...3 mar 2021 ... Hoy, ONU Mujeres Honduras se suma a la sentida conmemoración de los cinco años del asesinato de la lideresa indígena lenca, activista por el ...TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—In an unusual development in a nation known for rule by its capitalist anti-democratic elite, one member of that small cabal, who shares responsibility for the murder of ...Am 4. März wäre Berta 45 Jahre alt geworden. Vieles spricht dafür, dass sie starb, weil sie mächtige Leute in Honduras störte. In der Geschichte um ihren Tod …Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres has been assassinated in her home in Honduras. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras. In 1993 ...She looked and sounded exhausted but agreed straight away to give me an interview in her home town of La Esperanza, in western Honduras, a couple of days later.She wouldn’t give me her address ...When the activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated in Honduras, in March, the news was devastating but not exactly surprising. Honduras has one of the world’s highest murder rates, and social ...By Martha GrevattJuly 12, 2021. Roberto David Castillo Mejía, accused by prosecutors of “masterminding” the assassination of beloved Honduran environmentalist and Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, was found guilty of homicide July 5 by a three-judge panel. Feminist Encampment Viva Berta, set up and maintained during the trial of …Jun 28, 2021 Common Dreams. After five long years, social movements in Honduras are finally getting closer to bringing some justice to the assassination of beloved social movement leader Berta Caceres. Today, David Castillo sits on trial as a key perpetrator of her murder. Five years ago, Indigenous feminist Berta Caceres from Grassroots ...On 3 March 2016, unidentified gunmen entered Berta Cáceres’ home in La Esperanza and shot her dead. They have never been arrested. Although Cáceres had long lived in fear for her life, her murder shocked her many supporters both in Honduras and around the world. Naomi Klein, the Canadian author and environmental campaigner, tweeted: Mar 4, 2016 · First published on Thu 3 Mar 2016 10.51 EST. Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a ... Honduras: Half-truths for Berta Cáceres and her family. The irregularities in the investigation and court proceedings relating to the murder of prominent human rights defender Berta Cáceres, combined with the fact all those who masterminded the crime have still not been identified, lead to the conclusion that neither the right to justice, the right to …Jul 5, 2021 · 5 July 2021 AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Berta Cáceres had rallied indigenous Lenca people against the dam A court in Honduras has found a former energy executive guilty of helping plan the murder of a... Yale Environment 360 reports from Honduras where Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands and paid for it with her life – one of hundreds of victims in this disturbing global trendDec 5, 2018 · 5 December 2018: Conviction in murder trial of woman human rights defender Berta Caceres; 12 January 2017: Former Honduran soldier arrested in connection to Berta Cáceres' murder; 7 November 2016: Ongoing attacks and harassment against COPINH members and international observers in Honduras; 4 May 2016: Four people arrested over Berta's killing Su Labor como Activista Ambiental. Berta Cáceres fue una destacada activista hondureña que, por más de 20 años, luchó por los derechos de su pueblo y de la mujer, por la justicia social y la correcta administración de los recursos naturales. En 1993 fundó el Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras, …berta.copinh.org. La Causa Berta Cáceres es un llamado a la justicia de los pueblos indígenas, de las mujeres luchadoras hondureñas.Es la resignificación de la vida, pensamiento y acción de nuestra compañera en su dimensión para la lucha histórica del pueblo hondureño. An observatory of human collective memory. Berta Cáceres. Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbeɾtajsaˈβel ˈkaseɾes ˈfloɾes]; 4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business. Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands in Honduras — and paid for it with her life. She is one of hundreds of victims of a disturbing global trend — the killings of environmental activists who try to block development projects. First in a series. By Fred Pearce • February 28, 2017.Berta Cáceres En agosto del 2022 se estrenó una película que relata la historia de Berta Cáceres llamada "Berta soy yo". Foto: Criterio.hn. ... Botazzi creció en Honduras, pero realizó sus estudios en Estados Unidos y actualmente es la Decana de la Escuela Nacional de Medicina Tropical en Texas, Estados Unidos. Maria Elena Botazzi …Activist Berta Caceres Goldman Environmental Prize COPINH grew to defend about 240 Lenca communities, who live in western Honduras and El Salvador, and campaigned against the privatization of ...Feb 28, 2017 · In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business. Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands in Honduras — and paid for it with her life. She is one of hundreds of victims of a disturbing global trend — the killings of environmental activists who try to block development projects. First in a series. By Fred Pearce • February 28, 2017. Jul 6, 2021 · The verdict comes more than five years after a hit squad stormed Cáceres’ home in La Esperanza in southwest Honduras in early March 2016, killing her and wounding Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro, who survived only because he played dead. Castillo Mejía will be sentenced on August 3 and faces between 25 and 30 years in prison. García was shot dead in the face by unidentified gunmen as he returned to his family home in Río Lindo, north-west Honduras – about 100 miles south of La Esperanza where Cáceres was murdered ...Berta Cáceres, a hugely influential Honduran indigenous rights activist, was killed in her hometown of La Esperenza, Intibucá, on Thursday. She would have turned 46 tomorrow.berta.copinh.org. La Causa Berta Cáceres es un llamado a la justicia de los pueblos indígenas, de las mujeres luchadoras hondureñas.Es la resignificación de la vida, pensamiento y acción de nuestra compañera en su dimensión para la lucha histórica del pueblo hondureño.19 sept 2017 ... Berta Cáceres Flores) nació en La Esperanza, Honduras, el 4 de marzo de 1971. Activista por los derechos civiles y la defensa del medio ...Berta’s assassination marked an ominous new era. As early as 2002, police or military-affiliated death squads in Honduras—resurrecting the tradition of state killings carried out by groups such as Battalion 3-16 in the 1980s—would execute low-level political activists or teenagers accused of gang activity. But Berta was different.Jul 5, 2021 · A Honduran construction firm executive has been found guilty of being a collaborator in the 2016 killing of Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a court ruled on Monday, in what ... Berta Zúñiga Cáceres, la heredera de la lucha medioambiental indígena en Honduras. La hija de la prestigiosa activista asesinada reclama una investigación independiente. Han detenido al ...Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 de marzo de 1971, La Esperanza, Intibucá – 2 de marzo de 2016, La Esperanza, Intibucá) fue una líder indígena Lenca, feminista y lideresa del movimiento popular hondureño. …Dec 3, 2019 · La ambientalista y líder indígena Berta Cáceres fue asesinada a balazos en su casa en marzo de 2016. Este lunes un tribunal en Honduras condenó a siete hombres a entre 30 y 50 años de cárcel ... Berta Cáceres vive en la lucha de los pueblos por la justicia ... Mural dedicado a Berta Cáceres en Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ORLANDO SIERRA (AFP) Laura Zúñiga. 19 mar 2020 - 01:09 CETMar 2, 2023 · In a rare win for justice, in July 2021, a Honduran court found Roberto David Castillo - head of the hydroelectric company Desarrollos Energéticos (Desa) at the time of Berta’s death - guilty of co-conspiring in her murder. He was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison a year later. But Berta’s family continued to fight in her memory ... Jul 5, 2021 · Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres. The high-profile murder of environmental activist Berta Cáceres in 2016 was tragically not an isolated incident, in a country that has consistently been one of the deadliest countries in the world for land and environmental defenders. We have also documented threats to Honduras’s forest communities, with criminal activity stripping the …19 sept 2017 ... Berta Cáceres Flores) nació en La Esperanza, Honduras, el 4 de marzo de 1971. Activista por los derechos civiles y la defensa del medio ...Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores nació el 4 de marzo de 1971 en el departamento de Intibucá, Honduras. Desde niña vivió en un hogar dirigido sólo por su madre, doña María Austra Berta Flores, quien, además de ser partera, enfermera y alcaldesa, desde muy joven se involucró en la defensa de los derechos humanos.Jun 20, 2022 · He coordinated, planned and obtained the money to pay for the assassination of the internationally acclaimed leader, which was carried out by seven men convicted in December 2018. Castillo’s ... Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres tried for years to thwart the construction of a dam across a sacred river near her community in Honduras, and she was killed in her home by hitmen as a result.A US-trained former Honduran army intelligence officer who was the president of an internationally financed energy company has been sentenced to 22 years …En noviembre de 2018, el Tribunal de Sentencia de Honduras declaró culpables a siete personas por el asesinato de Berta Cáceres, lideresa indígena y ...The seven men found guilty of killing the Honduran indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres have been sentenced to 30 to 50 years. Cáceres, a winner of the Goldman prize for environmental ...Human rights advocates on Monday welcomed the conviction of Roberto David Castillo Mejia, a Honduran businessman and former military intelligence officer, for the March 2016 assassination of Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, while calling on authorities in the Central American nation to bring everyone involved in planning the murder to justice.According to Global Witness data, at least 40 land and environmental defenders have been murdered in Honduras since Berta’s death. In reality, this number is likely to be much higher, as this data only accounts for attacks that are reported and verified. Even so, Honduras had the highest number of defenders murdered per capita in 2019.Four men have been arrested in connection with the murder of the Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres, who was shot dead at her home two months ago. Two of those arrested are linked to the ...Story highlights. Indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead inside her home. "This is a crime against Honduras," the country's President says. Activists say the government ...Berta Cáceres was a great feminist and environmentalist leader, a defender of the Lenca people, and a member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras ().Berta was killed on March 2 nd, 2016 for challenging the powers that be in her country and campaigning to stop a hydropower project in Lenca …Dec 9, 2017 · At least 124 environmental and land activists have been murdered in Honduras since 2009; Global Witness calls the country the most dangerous in the world in which to defend natural resources. On March 2, 2016, one year after Berta Cáceres won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize—sometimes called the Green Nobel—and one day before ... 4 mar 2016 ... ... Berta Cáceres, líder indígena del pueblo Lenca, una de las mayores etnias de Honduras. Berta Cáceres fue una destacada activista hondureña ...Berta Cáceres, Honduran Indigenous Rights Leader, Is Murdered In December 2019, seven men were sentenced to prison for Cáceres' murder. Four men were sentenced to 34 years for the murder and 16...Last modified on Thu 16 Apr 2020 07.34 EDT. High-ranking politicians and business tycoons are implicated in a wave of violence against environmental activists in Honduras, according to an ...Berta Cáceres, lideresa indígena, representante durante más de veinte años del Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH), fue asesinada en la madrugada de este jueves 3 de marzo mientras dormía en su casa en La Esperanza, Intibucá, a unos 188 kilómetros de Tegucigalpa, a mano de hombres …Mar 3, 2016 · Story highlights. Indigenous environmental activist Berta Cáceres was shot dead inside her home. "This is a crime against Honduras," the country's President says. Activists say the government ... Honduras, where defending nature is a deadly business. In the first in a series, Yale Environment 360 reports from Honduras where Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands and paid for it with ...Mar 1, 2021 · Berta was killed by a team of sicarios, paid assassins working for the elite sectors of Honduras. Berta was also killed by all those countries and institutions whose greed and violence she lived, stood and fought against. She was killed by …. 500 years of racist, violent, dispossessing European imperialism and colonialism. The verdict comes more than five years after a hit squad stormed Cáceres’ home in La Esperanza in southwest Honduras in early March 2016, killing her and wounding Mexican environmentalist Gustavo Castro, who survived only because he played dead. Castillo Mejía will be sentenced on August 3 and faces between 25 and 30 years in prison.Berta Cáceres, la justicia que no llega El juicio por el asesinato de la activista hondureña ha sido suspendido. La familia de la ecologista teme una farsa que no llegue hasta el fondoHonduras: Half-truths for Berta Cáceres and her family. The irregularities in the investigation and court proceedings relating to the murder of prominent human rights defender Berta Cáceres, combined with the fact all those who masterminded the crime have still not been identified, lead to the conclusion that neither the right to justice, the right to …Berta Zúñiga Cáceres, la heredera de la lucha medioambiental indígena en Honduras. La hija de la prestigiosa activista asesinada reclama una investigación independiente. Han detenido al ...March 11, 2016 Demonstrators protest the murder of Berta Cáceres last week in La Esperanza, Honduras. Photograph by STR / epa / Corbis The Honduran activist Berta Cáceres was at home last...3 mar 2016 ... La dirigente indígena hondureña Berta Cáceres ha sido asesinada a tiros este jueves en la ciudad de La Esperanza, departamento occidental de ...Berta Cáceres, líder indígena hondureña, defensora de los derechos de la comunidad Ienca y de los movimientos campesinos, ha sido asesinada en la madrugada del jueves en un asalto a su casa en ...La ambientalista y líder indígena Berta Cáceres fue asesinada a balazos en su casa en marzo de 2016. Este lunes un tribunal en Honduras condenó a siete hombres a entre 30 y 50 años de cárcel ...Berta Caceres, otra defensora del medio ambiente, la naturaleza y los grupos indígenas asesinada en Honduras después de 20 años de valiente lucha.David Castillo, a former top business executive found guilty for his role in the assassination of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Caceres, has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison...Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 de marzo de 1971, La Esperanza, Intibucá – 2 de marzo de 2016, La Esperanza, Intibucá) fue una líder indígena Lenca, feminista y lideresa del movimiento popular hondureño. Cofundadora del Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras -COPINH- en el año de 1993. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The man convicted last year of co-ordinating the killing of Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres was sentenced Monday to more than 22 years in prison, upsetting ...Mar 15, 2018 · Berta Cáceres was an internationally recognized, award winning, Honduran environmental and civil rights activist who was assassinated in March 2016. Cáceres dedicated her life to fighting injustices that occurred in Honduras, a nation notorious for its human and environmental rights violations [1]. Born into humanitarian activism, Cáceres ... Aug 31, 2023 · Comunicado: ¡Basta de impunidad! David Castillo y todos los culpables de la corrupción que asesinó a Berta Cáceres deben ser condenados. 20/07/2023 Comunicacion COPINH. COMUNICADO N°10 – 2023 La justicia en el único caso sobre redes de corrupción en el otorgamiento ilegal de concesiones. The leader and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (COPINH), Berta Cáceres had spent decades campaigning against projects that threatened local communities and their rights. ©COPINH. Berta Cáceres was murdered on 3 March 2016. More recently, she was one of the most vocal voices opposing the construction of …Jul 5, 2021 · Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres. Good morning, Quartz readers! Good morning, Quartz readers! What to watch for today New Jersey takes a bet on online gambling. New Jersey becomes the third US state, following Nevada and Delaware, to legalize internet betting. The market co...Berta Cáceres En agosto del 2022 se estrenó una película que relata la historia de Berta Cáceres llamada "Berta soy yo". Foto: Criterio.hn. ... Botazzi creció en Honduras, pero realizó sus estudios en Estados Unidos y actualmente es la Decana de la Escuela Nacional de Medicina Tropical en Texas, Estados Unidos. Maria Elena Botazzi …Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres.Berta Cáceres was one of the most prominent human rights defenders in Honduras and a Lenca indigenous woman who, for the past 20 years, had been …On 2 March 2016, a prominent environmental activist and campaigner for women’s rights, Berta Cáceres, was shot dead at her home in Honduras. Last week …Berta Cáceres was an internationally recognized, award winning, Honduran environmental and civil rights activist who was assassinated in March 2016. Cáceres dedicated her life to fighting injustices that occurred in Honduras, a nation notorious for its human and environmental rights violations [1]. Born into humanitarian activism, Cáceres ...A court in Honduras has sentenced a former energy executive to more than 22 years in jail over the murder of an environmental activist in 2016. Berta Cáceres led protests against the Agua Zarca ...Berta Cáceres at the banks of the Gualcarque River in the Rio Blanco region of western Honduras. Photograph: Tim Russo/Goldman Environmental Prize Berta Cáceres Who killed Berta Cáceres?...GENEVA (11 April 2016) – More than a month after Berta Cáceres’ murder, United Nations experts* have reiterated their appeal to the Government of Honduras to provide justice and reveal the truth in the killing of the woman human rights defender, and to ensure the security and protection of all people defending the environment and human rights in the country.Mar 7, 2016 · Tegucigalpa, Honduras / 07.03.2016 12:01:42. Berta Cáceres era una mujer valiente, una activista ambientalista, quien decía que a través de su madre aprendió a conocer los ríos de su región ... 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