garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_fr-08b411eaa12b8cb9.pdf

Friends of the Earth International and a global coalition of organizations have issued a formal condemnation of the Honduran government following the kidnapping of four members of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) from the Triunfo de la Cruz community. The document highlights a pattern of systematic aggression against the Garifuna people by banana companies, oil palm plantations, and real estate developers. It specifically calls for the immediate release of the kidnapped leaders and the execution of a 2015 Inter-American Court of Human Rights sentence requiring the state to restore 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory and specific parcels of land currently held by the Tela workers' union and companies Macerica and Idetrisa.

• Four members of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) from the Triunfo de la Cruz community in Tela—Alberth Snaider Centeno Tomas, Milton Joel Martínez Alvarez, Suami Aparicio Mejía, and Albert Sentana Thomas—were kidnapped from their homes by armed men wearing National Police uniforms and Department of Police Investigation (DPI) vests.
• The Garifuna indigenous community in Honduras faces systematic attacks driven by a neoliberal model of land privatization, specifically from banana companies, industrial oil palm plantations, and the tourism and real estate industries.
• The Honduran government has failed to implement a October 8, 2015, ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which mandated the restitution of lands to the Triunfo de la Cruz community. Violence has increased since the ruling, with 17 people (11 men and 6 women) murdered in the previous year.
• The document demands the immediate restitution of 2,840 hectares of ancestral territory, 22 hectares held by the Tela workers' union, and 98 hectares illegally held by Macerica and Idetrisa (associated with the Marbella and Playa Escondida real estate projects).
• The document asserts that the Honduran government has violated the right of indigenous peoples to free, prior, and informed consent as established by the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169, which Honduras ratified in 1995.

APA

Nansen, K. (2020). garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_fr-08b411eaa12b8cb9.pdf. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_FR.pdf

Chicago

Nansen, Karin. garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government_friends-of-the-earth-international_fr-08b411eaa12b8cb9.pdf. Friends of the Earth International, 2020. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{nansen2020garifunasolidaritylettertohondurasgovernmentfriendsoftheearthinternationalfr08b411eaa12b8cb9pdf, author = {Nansen, Karin}, title = {{garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-honduras-government\_friends-of-the-earth-international\_fr-08b411eaa12b8cb9.pdf}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2020}, month = sep, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Garifuna-solidarity-letter-to-Honduras-government_Friends-of-the-Earth-International_FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }