Honduran indigenous women leading communities' land-defense efforts

Intibuca department, Honduras, May 9 (EFE).- Lenca indigenous and peasant women in western Honduras are taking the lead in defending their lands, natural wealth and human rights amid threats from large construction and resource-extraction projects. Gathered as members of the Lenca Indigenous Council of the Community of Lepaterique, dozens of these female representatives of historically …

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