Coordinadora de Organizaciones Populares del Aguán (COPA)

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Organization name

Coordinadora de Organizaciones Populares del Aguán (COPA)

Organization link

https://www.radioscomunitarias.info/copa/

Organization type

Network

Country

Honduras

Current focus/area

Human Rights Agrarian Reform Workers' rights

Description/notes

The Coordinator of Popular Organizations of Aguan (COPA) emerged in June 1997 in Tocoa, Colon. We are an Organization for the Defense of Human, Environmental, Social and Popular Rights in the Aguan Valley Region, made up of 26 grassroots organizations including: Trade Unions, Peasant Women, Community (Boards, Community Committee and Water Boards), Cajas Rural, Youth, Women. They accompany victims ttomedical cecentrescomplaints, arrest cases, arrest warrants, trials, illegal arrests, unjustified dismissals, follow-up and legal support to the COPA bases. (alternative website)

Compendium source

Signatory of the People's Summit: Climate Rights and Human Survival


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