Thanks to the efforts of the Honduras Solidarity Network, 58 members of Congress signed the letter sponsored by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) to Secretary of State Kerry and Attorney General Holder addressing concerns about human rights violations and the impact of U.S. counter-narcotics efforts on Afro-descendant and indigenous communities in Honduras. Below is the press […]
January 29th, 2013 On January 28th, 60 members of the Movement of Popular Resistance (MPR-12), international solidarity organizations and residents of the urban communities Santa Cecilia and El Progreso 3 gathered in front of the Specialized Chamber of Organized Crime more than month after the raid on Santa Ceclia and El Progreso 3 that resulted […]
Click HERE to support Sister Cities’ work in defense of human rights work by making a secure online donation or to becoming a monthly sustainer. Dear Friends, Monday, December 10th, marked International Human Rights Day. A day that Sister Cities tries to honor 365 days a year with its work for human rights in […]
December 10th, 2012 By Alexandra Early (source- www.esnomineria.blogspot.com) The conference: "Metallic Mining: Threats to Life and Human Rights in El Salvador" was held on Wednesday in San Salvador with the objective of calling for urgent action to curb the excesses of toxic mining. Speakers included environmentalists and economists who discussed the environmental, economic and institutional […]
On November 20, twenty-four organizations from the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the San Salvador City Council and to the Office of the President of El Salvador in which they denounced and demanded justice in the case of violent evictions of vendors executed by the Mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano. The page […]
From October 5th to 17th, Sister Cities’s traveled up and down the East Coast, from Pennsylvania to Maine with CRIPDES’s leader Zulma Hernandez who shared the challenges, successes and lessons of the Salvadoran social movement . This year, the National Gathering was hosted by the Philadelphia committee on October 6th-7th, where members of the […]
Donate Now to Make this Election Observation Delegation Possible! Support Sister Cities in our effort to bring representatives of the Salvadoran social movement to support their Honduran brothers and sisters and serve as international observers during Honduras’ primary election on November 18th, when supporters of LIBRE, the party of the nonviolent National Front for Popular […]
<<Also see news about the Canadian mining company Goldcorp's efforts to influence Guatemalan laws below>> Mining for Gold: A “Pact with the Devil”? The economic crisis—and the rising price of gold—have spurred North American firms to reopen mines and attack environmental regulations. Here’s what we can learn from El Salvador’s moratorium on new mining permits. […]
Source: School of the Americas Watch and the Honduras Solidarity Network August 24, 2012 Over the last few weeks, thousands of you around the country have sent messages to your members of Congress, urging them to ask U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to suspend U.S. assistance to the Honduran military and police, given the […]
In October 2012, Sister Cities will be hitting the road on our East Coast speaking tour. We will be going all the way from Pennsylvania to Maine along with Zulma Hernandez, a dynamic young CRIPDES organizer with years of experience in youth, political and women´s organizing. Our tour starts at the Sister Cities National Gathering […]