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2016 Front Line Defenders Award Finalist - Ana Mirian Romero, Honduras

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2016 Award Finalists
Women HRDs

Ana Mirian Romero is a land rights and indigenous rights defender in Honduras. She is a member of Movimiento Indígena Lenca de La Paz Honduras – MILPAH (Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz, Honduras) and the Consejo Indígena San Isidro Labrador (San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Council). She has been active in opposing the installation of the Los Encinos hydro-electric dam on indigenous land near the Chinacla river. In early 2016 her home was burned down.

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#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
#Land Rights
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Ana Mirian Romero
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Maxima Acuna de Chaupe farmstead at sunset
28 April 2016

Máxima Acuña de Chaupe - Under Surveillance

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At the end of March, I visited environmental and land rights defender Máxima Acuña de Chaupe at her home in the Cajamarca region of Peru.  The next nonfiction graphic novel we are producing is about environmental and land rights defenders challenging and at risk from resource extraction companies. Máxima is confronting Newmont Mining (US) and its Peruvian counterpart, Yanococha Mining, which are trying to remove her from her land to build a huge gold mine, known as Conga.

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#Environmental Rights #Land Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Physical Attack
Locations 
#Peru
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31 March 2016

Take action for Fidencio Gómez Sántiz

Approximately three weeks since he was last seen on, 5 March 2016, the whereabouts of human rights defender Mr Fidencio Gómez Sántiz remain unknown. He was last seen leaving his family in Ocosingo, Chiapas. Front Line Defenders calls on the Mexican authorities to immediately take all necessary measures to locate human rights defender Fidencio Gómez Sántiz and to ensure his physical and psychological integrity and security, as well as that of his family members.

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#Impunity / Justice
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
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#Enforced Disappearance
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#Mexico
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Fidencio Gómez Sántiz

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