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Environmental Activist Killings In Honduras
The organization Global Witness has said that Honduras is the deadliest country in the world for environmental activists. In the period between 2009 and 2017, more than 120 environmental activists were killed. Background Honduras is the poorest and most violent country (in terms of homicide) in Central America. About 16% of its population lives on a daily income of $1.90 USD or less, and 74.6 people per 100,000 are murdered each year. It also ranks lowest on the Human Development Index, with a score of 130. Honduras and Guatemala have the highest prevalence of direct violence against environmental activists. From 1959 to 2015, 79% of cases of environmental violence involving murder occurred in one of these two countries. Notable victims and incidents *Berta Cáceres (1971 – 2016) *Jeannette Kawas (1946 – 1995) *María Enriqueta Matute *Lesbia Urquía *Tomás Garcia *José Santos Sevilla *Félix Vásquez killed on 26 December 2020 in his home in Santiago de Puringla. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Witness
Global Witness is an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide. The organisation has offices in London and Washington, D.C. Global Witness states that it does not have any political affiliation. Mike Davis has been the organisation's CEO since 2020. Profile Global Witness states that its goals are to expose the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. The organisation explores how diamonds and other natural resources can fund conflict or fuel corruption. It carries out investigations into the involvement of specific individuals and business entities in activities such as illegal and unsustainable forest exploitation, and corruption in oil, gas and mining industries. Global Witness’ methodology combines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the Educational system, education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of Human development (humanity), human development. A country scores a higher level of HDI when the life expectancy at birth, lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI (PPP) per capita is higher. It was developed by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq and was further used to measure a country's development by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Human Development Report Office. The 2010 Human Development Report introduced an List of countries by inequality-adjusted HDI, Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI). While the simple HDI remains useful, it stated that "the IHDI is the actual level of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berta Cáceres
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (; 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). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque. She was assassinated in her home by armed intruders, after years of threats against her life. A former soldier with the US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military asserted that Caceres' name was on their hitlist months before her assassination. As of February 2017, three of the eight arrested people were linked to the US-trained elite military troops: two had been trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA, the former School of the Americas (SOA), renamed WHINSEC, linked to thousands of murders and human rights violations in Latin America by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannette Kawas
Blanca Jeannette Kawas Fernández (16 January 1946 – 6 February 1995) was a Honduran environmental activist known for her role in saving more than 400 species of flora and fauna. Biography Kawas started her studies at the Miguel Paz Barahona School and earned her title of Expert Accountant and Certified Public Accountant in 1967, after which she began working in financial institutions during the 1970s. Between 1977 and 1979 she met and married Jim Watt, giving birth to two children, Damaris and Jaime. In the early 1980s she moved with her children to the city of New Orleans, where she studied computation, obtaining various certificates, awards, and citations for her achievement and academic excellence. In the early 1990s she began working at the Honduran Ecology Association. Her activities and the progress made to preserve 449 plant species, diversity of flora and fauna, coastal lagoons, rocky outcrops, swamps, mangroves, rocky shores, sandy beaches, and rainforest located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Enriqueta Matute
María Enriqueta Matute (1942 – 25 August 2013) was an environmental and indigenous rights activist in Honduras. She was part of the Tolupán indigenous people. She participated in peaceful protests against illegal mining and logging activity on indigenous land. On 25 August 2013, Matute was killed along with two other activists as they participated in a sit-in to block a road. The sit-in had been in place since 14 August, involving several indigenous communities. About 150 activists of the San Francisco de Locomapa tribe blocked the main road, protesting antimony mining on their lands. In the evening, two men approached the group and opened fire, killing Armando Fúnez Medina and Ricardo Soto Fúnez. Matute fled to her home, though was followed by the gunmen and fatally shot. All three victims were members of ''Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y la Justicia'' (Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice), or MADJ. The shooters were later identified as Selvin Matute and Carlos Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesbia Urquía
Lesbia Yaneth Urquía (1967 - 6 July 2016) was a Honduran human rights activist. She was an advocate for the environment. Biography Lesbia Urquía was a community leader of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the same organization which Berta Cáceres belonged to. Urquía was opposed to the privatizations of the rivers, because they are diverted and stop giving water to the indigenous communities. In addition, dams promote the deforestation of these areas by companies and affect the flora and fauna of these lands. She had fought the construction of a hydroelectric dam of international investors in La Paz. The Lencas considered that the dams would affect their access to water, food and medical supplies, so that their traditional way of life would be jeopardized. The construction of this dam caused the Gualcarque River The Gualcarque River ( es, Río Gualcarque) is a river in Intibucá, western Honduras. It is sacred to the indigenous Lenca, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Garcia
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José Santos Sevilla
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago De Puringla
Santiago de Puringla is a municipality in the Honduran department of La Paz. The municipality is situated on a plain bordered by the River Puringla. South of the municipality runs the River Lepasale. History Puringla means "Abundance of Pollen" in indigenous languages. The original name of the community was Alguindia. In 1691, it was founded with the name Puringla and was given the categorisation of municipality in 1886. On 5 September 1921, as an act of celebration of the centenary of Independence, it was agreed to change the name to its current form. In April 2020, the municipality suffered fires in large parts of Delicias. Demographics At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Santiago de Puringla municipality had a population of 16,182. Of these, 97.06% were Indigenous (96.89% Lenca), 2.71% Mestizo, 0.17% Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.06% White White is the lightness, lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bajo Aguán
Bajo Aguán (''Lower Aguán'') refers to the lower part of Honduras' Aguán River Valley, in the north-eastern Colón Department and Yoro Department; the entire valley covers 200,000 hectares.Jeffrey R. JonesColonization and Environment: Land Settlement Projects in Central America The United Nations University Press, 1990 The area was at one time farmed by banana companies, but was abandoned in the 1930s, after which infrastructure deteriorated and the population sharply declined, to 68,000 inhabitants in 1961. Re-colonization of the area after 1974 resulted in a population increase, to 181,000 by 1980. The region is now again a major agricultural area, and by the early 1980s was producing "the majority of the nation's pineapple, grapefruit, and coconut, and nearly half its banana output". By 2011 though, much of the farmland was turned to oil palm plantations, including 22,000 acres (around a fifth of Bajo Aguán's agricultural land) owned by Miguel Facussé Barjum Miguel Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palm Oil
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced from oil crops in 2014. Palm oils are easier to stabilize and maintain quality of flavor and consistency in processed foods, so are frequently favored by food manufacturers. On average globally, humans consumed 7.7 kg (17 lb) of palm oil per person in 2015. Demand has also increased for other uses, such as cosmetics and biofuels, creating more demand on the supply encouraging the growth of palm oil plantations in tropical countries. The use of palm oil has attracted the concern of environmental groups due to deforestation in the tropics where palms are grown, and has been cited as a factor in social problems due to allegations of human rights violations among growers. An industry group formed in 2004 to create more sustainable an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kawas V
Kawas, Kavas or Cowas may refer to: * Kawas (genus), an extinct seal genus * Kawas (mythology), an Amis spiritual entity, and related terms * Kawas, Pakistan, a town and union council, Balochistan province, Pakistan * Kawas, Alabel, a barangay of Alabel, Sarangani, Philippines * NTPC Kawas, a power plant in Surat, Gujarat, India People with the name * Bassam Kawas (born 1969), Lebanese Olympic middle-distance runner * Hiba Kawas (born 1972), Lebanese operatic soprano, composer, and academic * Jeannette Kawas (1946–1995), murdered environmental activist from Honduras * Samira Kawas, Lebanese producer and actress *Kavas Jamas Badshah (1858–1931), Indian Civil Service officer, mayor of Ipswich *Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara (1977–1941), first Indian Deputy Commissioner of Bombay Police *Cowasjee Jehangir (other), alternative spelling of Kawasjee Jehangir *Kavasji Naegamvala (1857–1938), Indian astrophysicist *Cowaszee Nanabhoy Davar, Indian businessman in the cotton in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
