Caribbean Women condemn assassination of Berta Caceres

Caribbean Regional Network of Women and Women's Organizations
c/o Women's Resource and Outreach Centre
47 Beechwood Ave , Kingston 10.
Jamaica

Email: braceletsofjoy@gmail.com or crossroads283@gmail.com

MARCH 10, 2016

TO: Jorge Alberto Milla Reyes, Embajada de Honduras, 1014 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001; 

Ambassador James D. Nealon, Embajada de USA, América Avenida La Paz, Tegucigalpa M.D.C., Honduras

Honduras Embassy in Mexico,  Calle Alfonso Reyes #220, Cuauhtémoc, Condesa, 06170 Ciudad de México, D.F., México, T: 52 55 5211 52

Honduras Embassy in Canada,
151 Slater Street, Suite 805-A,
Ottawa ON KIP 5H3,
Canada

We, the undersigned women and representatives of Women's organizations and civil society organizations across the Caribbean and its diaspora condemn the assassination of Berta Caceres. Berta was a courageous woman whose actions were inspiring to all those committed to social justice worldwide.

We demand that Gustavo Castro, witness to the Caceres murder, be allowed to return home to Mexico in safety immediately. Any further legal procedures that are still needed from him should be carried out in the Mexican embassy in Honduras.

We, along with all justice seeking communities globally, are carefully watching the actions of the authorities in Honduras in regard to this horrific murder.

Monifa Adebola -  Jamaica

Nikki Sewell - 51%Coalition, Jamaica

Linnette Vassell -  Jamaica

Judith Wedderburn – Jamaica

Mariama Williams - Jamaica

Audrey Roberts - Bahamas

Jean Lowrie-Chin – Jamaica

Ayesha Constable - Jamaica

Carol Narcisse – Jamaica Civil Society Coalition

Horace Levy – Jamaica Civil Society Coalition

Jenny Jones – Jamaica Civil Society Coalition

Hilary Nicholson - Jamaica

Adwoa Onuora – Jamaica and Canada

Emma Lewis - Jamaica

Sandra Patterson- Barbados

Mildred Crawford - Jamaica

Joan Grant Cummings – Jamaica and Canada

Vanda Radzik –Guyana Women's Rights

Delores Robinson –Trinidad and Tobago

Vanya David  - Dominica

Eunadie Johnson– Dominica

Nadeen Spence - Jamaica

Latoya West Blackwood - Jamaica

D. Alissa Trotz – Guyana and Canada

Nicole Brown - Jamaica

Rachele E Vernon – UK and Jamaica

Honor Ford-Smith -  Jamaica and Canada

Marion Bethel - Bahamas

Danuta Radzik -Help & Shelter, Guyana

Noelle Nicholls –Bahamas

Alicia Wallace – Bahamas

Diana McCauley – Jamaica

Patricia Philips - Jamaica

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sent from the email address of:

Honor Ford-Smith, PhD.
Associate Professor
Community and Environmental Arts
Faculty of Environmental Studies
280, HNES Bldg
York University
4700 Keele St,
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3