Funding & Supporting Human Rights, Justice, Land & Environment Defense Struggles in Guatemala & Honduras
Rights Action works (mainly) in Honduras and Guatemala in support of truth and justice struggles for genocides and other war crimes of the 1970s-early 1990s; in support of land, environment and human rights defense struggles resisting harms (including killings) caused by sectors of the unjust global economy: mining and hydro-electric dams; for-export production of African palm, sugarcane and bananas; tourism and ‘sweatshop’ factories; and in denouncing political and military interventions, and economic warfare (“sanctions”) of the U.S., Canada and other ‘global north’ countries and actors.
13 Brave Giants
How We Won the Landmark Hudbay Minerals Lawsuits in Canada and the Mynor Padilla Criminal Trial in Guatemala, and at What Cost!
13 Brave Giants
Painted by Pati Flores
Education & Activism
Rights Action carries out education and activism work in the U.S. and Canada addressing how our governments, companies and investors often contribute to and benefit from human rights violations, repression, environmental harms, exploitation, corruption and impunity in these countries.
Direct Funding
Rights Action channels your donations and grants directly to people suffering human rights violations, evictions and harms caused by U.S. and Canadian companies and investors (including World Bank investments) in Honduras and Guatemala, as they fight to stay in their communities, on their lands, defending their rights and the environment. Rights Action also funds community agro-ecology and development, and emergency relief projects.
Happening NOW
‘Traditional elite’ sectors in Honduras take aim at general elections… read recent articles and statements on the topic
Below is a timeline of key events and dates in recent history providing context to the ‘local-to-national-to-global’ realities in which our partner groups live, suffer and resist, in which we do our work.
(This is not a comprehensive history.)
Rights Action is not working on “national” issues in Honduras and Guatemala. We are not helping “them” with “their” problems. The underlying causes of these problems are found at the local, national and international levels. In many ways, Rights Action is working to address and remedy “American” and “Canadian” problems in Honduras and Guatemala.
Policies and actions of the U.S. and Canadian governments, of the U.S. military, of North American companies and investors, and of intergovernmental institutions like the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank, oftentimes cause and benefit from repression, harms and violations, environmental degradation, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala. Rights Action documents and denounces these “northern”/ “global” policies and actions, and directly funds and supports Hondurans and Guatemalans working and struggling for their collective and individual rights, and for Mother Earth, the environment.
