January 9, 2012
January 9, 2012
President Porfirio must demonstrate that he’s taking measurable steps to prevent human rights abuses. January 2, 2012 Honduras has the highest homicide rate in the world, according to the United Nations, and its government has long been plagued by allegations of corruption and human rights abuses. A 2009 military coup deepened political rifts and eroded public trust… [Read more…]
In response to widespread concern in both the House and Senate over human rights abuses involving the Honduran police and military, the United States Congress has placed new conditions on a portion of U.S. police and military aid to Honduras. The legislative language that establishes these new conditions can be found in the Department of… [Read more…]
The Permanent International Observatory for Human Rights in the Aguán once again denounces the climate of repression prevailing in the Aguán Valley on the north coast of Honduras. In the region there has been no truce in the implementation of repression and uninterrupted military operations against the community of Rigores and the campesino settlements of… [Read more…]
More murders take place in the Central American country than anywhere else, but will putting troops on the streets help? Honduras has the highest per capita murder rate in the world, marked by a sharp increase in the number of drug-related deaths. More killings take place in the small Central American country than anywhere in… [Read more…]
On Monday, December 13th, leaders from the communities of Cristales and Río Negro, part of the Municipality of Trujillo, accompanied by OFRANEH, presented a lawsuit to render null and void various fraudulent contracts for sales of community lands held by Canadian Randy Roy Jorgensen. The majority of these transactions were carried out under pressure, offering… [Read more…]
TEGUCIGALPA.- Villagers, along with environmentalists, protested yesterday in front of the offices of the AG (Attorney General), demanding that the Environmental Prosecutor’s office act upon all the cases that have been filed by people from the Siria Valley who have been harmed by the mining operation [of Goldcorp Inc] in the Siria Valley . Children,… [Read more…]
Tegucigalpa, Dec 13 (EFE).- Several people were beaten by police and troops here Tuesday during a protest to demand justice for the 24 journalists murdered in Honduras over the last eight years, including 17 slain since January 2010. Some 40 news professionals marched from the eastern part of Tegucigalpa to the presidential palace, where soldiers… [Read more…]
Journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos has been killed in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, along with her driver and cousin, Delmer Osmar Canales Gutiérrez. Two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car when they were driving to work at the Honduras News Channel (HCN) and riddled them with dozens of bullets. Paz Villalobos, the director of… [Read more…]
Journalists in Honduras are facing growing danger, the country’s human rights commissioner has warned. Ramon Custodio was speaking to the Spanish news agency, Efe, a day after a radio host was shot dead. Luz Marina Paz was the 17th media worker to be killed in Honduras over the past couple of years, rights groups say.… [Read more…]
by MARK WEISBROT Imagine that an opposition organizer were murdered in broad daylight in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador or Venezuela by masked gunmen, or kidnapped and murdered by armed guards of a well-known supporter of the government. It would be front page news in the New York Times, and all over the TV news. The U.S.… [Read more…]
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), with great concern, would like to inform the international community, and the Honduran population in particular, that the practice of forced disappearance is once again being systematically implemented in Honduras, as demonstrated by the following cases. 1. Osmin Obando Cáceres (age 22), son… [Read more…]
José Reynaldo Cruz Palma, president of the Patronato de la Colonia Planeta, in San Pedro Sula, was taken by force this August 30, by the National Criminal Investigation Unit (DNIC) and police, who were travelling masked and hooded, in several vehicles, according to a complaint made by their relatives to the Committee of Relatives of… [Read more…]
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