
Organization / Workplace
HondurasLocation
Greater Chicago Area United StatesOccupation
Human Rights ObserverIndustry
Government / Military
About
I have been volunteering in Honduras as an International Human Rights Observer since May 2012. In that time, I have been involved in situations where international accompaniment was vital to the safety, and indeed the life, of Hondurans who struggle for Justice and Dignity. As a volunteer, I have been covering my own costs for the past year. For this vital work to continue, I need your support. Certainly before, but even more severely after the military coup in 2009, various communities have been under attack by the ruling elite. These include the campesinos (peasant farmers) throughout the country, the indigenous (which include, among others, the Lenca in the south and the Afro-Caribe ...