Bank faces lawsuit over Honduras dam project as spirit of Berta Cceres lives on
Organisation co-founded by murdered activist sues Dutch bank over support for Agua Zarca dam on Gualcarque river
Liz Ford and Sam Jones
Fri 18 May 2018 00.00 EDT
The organisation co-founded by the murdered environmental activist Berta Cáceres is taking legal action against a Dutch bank over its involvement in the construction of a controversial dam project in Honduras.
The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (Copinh), along with the Cáceres family, announced the suit against the Dutch development bank FMO, one of the backers of the Agua Zarca dam on the Gualcarque river, in the Netherlands on Thursday.
The lawsuit says the bank failed to observe the human rights of local people affected by the project and disregarded warnings about human rights violations perpetrated in the area, and raised by Cáceres before her death in 2016.
FMO suspended loans to the company after Cáceres’ death, pending a review. Last year, following protests by members of Copinh, the bank, along with the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, Finnfund, withdrew from the project “to reduce international and local tensions in the area”. FMO and Finnfund had provided $15m (£11m) to the project. A third backer, the Central American Bank of Economic Integration (Cabei), which had given $24m, has also withdrawn support.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/18/bank-faces-lawsuit-over-honduras-dam-project-spirit-of-berta-caceres-fmo-agua-zarca
Berta Cáceres
So many more people who are part of "la lucha" (struggle) in Honduras:
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