Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think it's exceedingly difficult to do it in present-day conditions in Honduras. I don't want to rule it out entirely. There might be small potable water projects that can make a difference in poor communities that don't have access to these water projects. But it's very diffic

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm cautious. The party that you referred to, Libertad y Refundación, “Refoundation and Liberty”, is inspiring in so far as it's carving out new political space on the political terrain in Honduras. It has been shaped and inspired by the social movements that emerged after the co

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't think the current free trade regime in our neo-liberal global world can possibly be fair or equitable. They're not written that way. As was mentioned earlier, they're designed with certain clauses around most favoured nation, national treatment, and the investor clause. W

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think for Gildan it's less than that. It's around 20,000.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's the maximum.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'd have to look at my notes for that.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I said with respect to the mining industry, the mining industry is not a major employer of people. It won't be a major employer of Hondurans. It's too capital-intensive an industry. It leads to greater displacement and dislocation of people, which can't possibly be compensated

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thanks. That's an important question. The first thing has to be to stop support for the Lobo regime, absolutely and unequivocally: financial support, diplomatic support, security support. To stress this point, Canada has been one of the strongest supporters of the Lobo regime, es

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think they've been of limited import so far. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, as well as Reporters Without Borders, have issued various reports, communiqués, releases, and so on, about the human rights situation, calling for protection

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think that's fine. It's one possible avenue among many, including the ones I've mentioned, of using the Inter-American Commission system to continue to press, and press strongly, on the Honduran government to respect human rights to end impunity, and so on. Again, just to stre

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. I think that is premised on the idea that the trade agreement could actually advance human rights. I know the argument is out there that more foreign investment is good for human rights. I don't believe that's the case. When people raise this issue, I refer to it as the trick

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are obviously disagreements and fights within it. Some people speculate that the suspension of the supreme court justices several months ago was a faction fight within the National Party. In my opinion, Honduras essentially has one political party with two factions within i

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Maquila is a shorthand that people use. It comes from maquiladora, which is the zone in northern Mexico on the border with the United States. The technical term that you'll see in the development literature texts are export processing zones. In Spanish, it's zonas francas. Essent

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.