Full Coverage: Central America

29.03.2005 Join MADRE for a very special Voyages with a Vision delegation to Nicaragua from May 24-31, 2005 to inaugurate the expansion of MADRE’s sister organization, Casa Museo, and celebrate MADRE’s 20+-year history of working with Indigenous and human rights organizations on the North Atlantic Coast. For over two decades, MADRE has supported community-based women’s groups on the country’s North Atlantic Coast to promote women’s human rights and the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples through a women’s health clinic, leadership development trainings, sexual and reproductive health workshops, and programs to combat violence against women, drug addiction, and malnutrition.

25.03.2005 A Canadian-based mining company that used "trickery [and] coercion" to buy up land in the towns of San Miguel Ixtahuacán and Sipakapa is imposing on the rights of indigenous communities, say local human rights groups, and causing social unrest. A Mayan man was killed after a heated dispute with mine workers on his land last week.

04.03.2005

01.03.2005 Organizations of the civil society in Centralamerica are presenting today irrefutable proofs of the presence of StarLink –a genetically modified maize banned for human consumption in the US-, in food aid sent to Centralamerica.