Accountability for Corporate Abuse
In Honduras, transnational corporations and financial institutions fuel the rampant extraction of the country’s natural resources at the cost of communities, human rights, and environmental sustainability. Their outsized and oftentimes illegal influence on state institutions weakens the rule of law and distorts practices of participatory democracy.
At CATRA, we 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 corporate abuses.
Justice for Communities Impacted by Aura Minerals
In 2022, U.S.-headquartered mining company Aura Minerals destroyed a 200-year old Indigenous cemetery in the Honduran region of Santa Rosa de Copán. The continued expansion of the mine now threatens a number of communities with force displacement.