Nicaragua Network

March 15 - 25, 2014  --  Deadline for Applications is February 15!

This delegation will examine the state of indigenous rights in Nicaragua at a time when the government has demarcated indigenous land and granted communal titles to indigenous groups but also at a time when illegal loggers and land grabbers have invaded those lands, deforesting pristine, internationally recognized nature reserves and threatened the tranquility of the indigenous territories.

Join Nicaragua Network National Co-Coordinator Katherine Hoyt and Alliance for Global Justice board chair Charlie Delaney-Megeso, a member of the Nulhegan-Coosuk tribe of the Abenaki Nation, who has represented the Nicaraguan Miskito in the United States, on this important delegation.

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The delegation will include:

*Plane flight to Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas, in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region;
*Meetings with governmental officials involved in indigenous land titling and the environment;
*Meetings with Miskito leaders and leaders of human rights and environmental groups;
*Trip by land to the Bosawas, the UNESCO Biosphere Nature Reserve to observe deforestation and meet with Mayangna leaders to learn about their way of life and the problems of land invasion;
*Meetings in Managua with government and other representatives involved with indigenous property demarcation and titling as well as environmental preservation.
*Meeting with representatives of the indigenous of the “Pacific” side of Nicaragua

Write now to nicanet@AFGJ.org to to receive information and an application for this important delegation!

Fee: $1,150 which includes all lodging, food, translation, and all in-country travel, including the plane flight to Bilwi, Puerto Cabezas.  It does not include international travel.

Sponsored by the Nicaragua Network (a project of the Alliance for Global Justice) with 35 years in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua. Tel. (619)423-2909.