 Annie Bird – author and human rights activist. Director of Rights and Ecology, a co-founder of Rights Action, and former research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, since 1995 Annie Bird has helped fund and support grassroots organizations in Central America, especially in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Southern Mexico that are struggling for community controlled development and environmental protection; for disaster and repression relief; for truth, memory, justice and human rights; and for democracy and the rule of law. Her community-based experiences, research, publications, and advocacy has made her a key actor in the international accountability movement with environmental quality/social justice work that calls governments and corporations to account for policies that cause harms and human rights violations.
Some of her recent publications:“18 Former Guatemalan Militar Officers Arrested for Crimes Against Humanity” by Annie Bird. Americas Program. 7 January 2016. “Rio Blanco Dam: Honduran Rights Defenders to be Jailed while Transnational Investors are Above the Law“ by Annie Bird. Americas Program, 6 October 2013.
The Agua Zarca Dam and Lenca Communities in Honduras by Annie Bird. Rights Action (USA) Report, October 3, 2013.
“The Guatemala ‘Ixil Genocide Trial’ Tests Judiciary Independence and Pushes Military Political Project to the Limit“ by Annie Bird, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, May 3, 2013. “Development or Armed Robbery: World Bank Funding, SouthCom Militarization Displace Indigenous and Campesino Communities“ by Annie Bird, Americas Program, 2 May 2013. Human Rights Violations Attributed to Military Forces in the Bajo Aguan Valley in Honduras. Rights Action (USA) Report by Annie Bird. February 20, 2013 “Privately Owned “Charter Cities” in Honduras: Entire Urban Areas Handed over to Corporations: From neo-liberalism to neo-colonialism“ by Annie Bird, Global Research, September 15, 2012. “Drugs and Business: Central America Faces Another Round of Violence” by Annie Bird, NACLA Report on the Americas , Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2012: 35-36. Collateral Damage of a Drug War: The May 11 Killings in Ahuas and the Impact of the U.S. War on Drugs in La Moskitia, Honduras. Center for Economic Policy Research and Rights Action (USA) Report, by Annie Bird and Alexander Main with research contributions from Karen Spring. August 2012. “The History and Resurgence of Death Squads in Central America“ by Annie Bird. Upside Down World, 17 April 2012.
“Biofuels, Mass Evictions and Violence Build on the Legacy of the 1978 Panzos Massacre in Guatemala“ by Annie Bird. Upside Down World, 23 March 2011.
“Guatemala: Ramiro Choc – a Political Prisoner – and the Fwebruary 11, 2011 massacre of three University Students, in Livingston” by Annie Bird. Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources, 11 February 2011.
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