About Us
Founded in 2025 by former members of the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective, CATRA is an international solidarity project that works with and alongside Black, Indigenous, campesino, and other organized communities and grassroots organizations in Honduras and the United States to realize life-affirming political and economic systems that uphold the inherent dignity of all people.
What We Do
Urgent Action
Develop and deploy emergency response tools designed to leverage international solidarity networks to protect human rights defenders and at-risk communities, with a particular focus on cases of criminalization.
Grassroots Advocacy
Work closely with grassroots organizations and impacted communities to conduct targeted human rights documentation and investigative output that supports advocacy campaigns and legal strategies designed to counter colonialism, corporate abuses, and state violence.
Experience Driven Research
Conduct research that contextualizes patterns of human rights violations within global political and economic systems, including issues related to U.S. foreign policy, extractivism, migration, and impunity as it relates to Honduras.
Fostering Transterritorial Exchange
Facilitate exchanges between organized peoples across borders to expand world views, skill build, and inspire new ways of organizing and conducting advocacy, with an emphasis on connecting the Central American diaspora to struggles across the isthmus.
Our Values
Accountable
Accountable to our mission, values, supporters, and the communities, organizations, and movements that we work with.
Respect-Based
Sustained by relationships rooted in mutual respect.
Reflexive
Dedicated to a continuous process of evaluating and improving our methods to better serve our mission.