Webinar: Honduras after Hurricanes Eta and Iota – government Response and Community Participation in Humanitarian Crisis

NUNCA MÁS (https://www.nuncamas.net/) would like to invite you to a webinar on the situation in Honduras in the aftermath of the devastating hurricanes Eta and Iota.

The two hurricanes hit only two weeks apart leaving hundreds of thousands in despair without anything and the destruction of much infrastructure, i.e. bridges, airports, roads, electricity and water services and a government that is heavily criticized for its (in)-action.

With the accompanying humanitarian crisis Honduras is suddenly receiving international attention and international assistance, where the government seems to have made it as a trademark to bank on national crisis to receive international assistance, which afterwards is almost openly siphoned off the persons close to the government.

The webinar will put the humanitarian crisis into a Honduran political context and look at what has been the government response before and after the hurricanes.

It will look at the crisis from the national level and from the community level with reports from one of the worst hit areas. The presentations will be followed by discussions on what implications this should have on assistance from abroad.

Speakers

Dr. Juan Almendares: The present humanitarian crisis in the political context. 

Dr. Juan Almendares is a medical doctor by profession, former Principal of the Universidad Autónoma Nacional de Honduras, and presently the Director of Centro de Prevención, Tratamiento y Rehabilitación de las Víctimas de la Tortura y sus Familias, CPTRT and Director, Madre Tierra, Honduras. He has worked with politics and human rights all his life.

Licda. Tania Alvarado: The present humanitarian crisis seen from the community perspective.

Tania Claudina Alvarado is an educator / teacher in child rigths based based in La Ceiba. She has extensive experience in community development, in relation to mobilization, capacity development, training, gender equality, displacement, income generating activities, etc. She worked for many years in La Mosquitia. Finally, she is an author like Dr. Almendares writing poems.

Arely Patricia Alvarado Zúniga – Nunca Más: The present humanitarian crisis – the role of civil society organizations outside Honduras: How and why does an organization like Nunca Más intervene?

Arely is founding member / board member of Nunca Más. She has an MSc in Educational Research, UPNFM (thesis on Human Rights education) and a Master in Psychology, UNAH in Honduras. She has worked in the disability / rehabilitation and human rights field, with focus on trauma, violence-torture, with victims / survivors and their families.

She is a Member of McGill Echenberg Conference Young Leaders, EQUITAS Human Rights (Canada) and EHAPS-Honduras. Arely works as a psychologist at Region Midt, Denmark.

Language: Spanish

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