Date: 28-05-2026Time: 07:00 - 09:00 PMLocation: Kargadoor (Oudegracht 36) in UtrechtIn
collaboration with Both Ends and study association CS Ubuntu, Peace
Brigades International (PBI) is organising a Human Rights Café at 19:00
on the 28th of May at the Kargadoor (Oudegracht 36) in Utrecht.
Click here to register.
On
Thursday evening the 28th of May, Honduran human rights defenders
Bertha Zuniga Cáceres and Camilo Bermúdez will come to Utrecht to speak
about the struggle for human rights in Honduras. Bertha is the daughter
of Berta Cáceres, a human rights defender who was killed in 2016 for
defending the rights of the indigenous Lenca community and related
resistance against the ‘Agua Zarca’ hydropower project. Other speakers
are Anne de Jonghe from environmental NGO Both Ends, and Roxanna Altholz
and Pedro Biscay, members of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent
Experts that was appointed by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
in 2025 to do an independent investigation into the circumstances around
the killing of Berta Cáceres.
During
this event, panel members will speak about recent developments in the
case of the killing of Berta, such as publication of the report of the
Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts and the ongoing court
case against Dutch development bank FMO. This bank financed the ‘Agua
Zarca’ hydropower project, but their human rights and environmental
policies could not prevent human rights violations and the killing of
Berta Cáceres.
Panel
members will also discuss what justice comprises in a case like this,
what dangers human rights defenders face in Honduras now, and how the
international community can support indigenous communities in their
struggle for justice. Apart from the panel discussion, there will also
be room for a Q&A during the event and more informally during the
drinks afterwards.
Do you want to come? Attendance is free.
Please register so that we know how many people to expect.
You can read more about the story of Berta Cáceres here.
