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1 Oct 2016

Author:
COPINH (Honduras)

COPINH rejects FMO’s Mission Report on the Agua Zarca Project

COPINH rejects the biased report of the FMO’s Mission, which seeks to whitewash the Agua Zarca Project and hide the systematic violence imposed by the project. The report clearly seeks to justify the continuation of the Agua Zarca Project after the murder of our General Coordinator Berta Caceres and to discredit, minimize, and criminalize COPINH and the dignified opposition to the project…The report ignores the systematic violence and repression carried out by people associated with DESA…The Mission’s report contributes to the criminalization of COPINH…The report distorts and manipulates the concepts relating to international obligations in ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples…We demand that the FMO, Finn Fund, and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) immediately and definitively withdraw from the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Project.  We also demand FMO, Finn Fund, and CABEI never again invest in projects that violate the right of free, prior, and informed consultation…

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