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Gilda Silvestrucci Brussels, 26 January 2012 (ITUC OnLine): Gilda Silvestrucci, a member of the Journalists for Life and Freedom of Expression group, received death threats by telephone on 24 January. The ITUC firmly condemns the constant threats against journalists who dare to exercise their profession. Gilda Silvestrucci was among the women who headed the call […]
January 26, 2012
by Dana Frank IT’S time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Honduras’s democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State […]
January 24, 2012
Miami Herald, Editorial The recent withdrawal of America ’s Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras is one more sign that the security situation in that Central American country has deteriorated to crisis levels not seen since the civil wars of the 1980s. The country is quickly turning into a disaster zone. After the tide of civil […]
January 20, 2012
Two-year land struggle brings death toll of massacred peasants to 45 By Giorgio Trucchi – Rel-UITA The land conflict that has been plaguing the northeast Honduran region of Bajo Aguán for the last two years has taken a new innocent life. At 7 a.m., Friday, Jan. 20, two hooded men on motorcycles gunned down Matías […]
January 18, 2012
By way of this public statement COPINH (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras – Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), wishes to alert the national and international community to the following, in the face of the fresh threat to life, sovereignty, biodiversity, health, water and dignity of the Honduran […]
January 17, 2012
A Honduras lawyer who revealed to a newspaper that police were torturing detainees was killed three days after the story was published. José Ricardo Rosales was shot dead on 17 January after telling the newspaper El Tiempo of police mistreatment of prisoners in the coastal city of Tela, in northern Honduras. According to the paper, 74 lawyers […]
January 9, 2012
The Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) express our concern for repeated abuse committed by the Honduran police against the population. In the last two weeks at least three people have reported assaults and assassination attempts by police officers. January 7, 2012, around 8:00 p.m., Gonzalo Cruz, 42 years old […]
January 9, 2012
The Committee for Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) wishes to express its total condemnation and deep concern regarding the police of the State of Honduras and their systematic practice of attacking its citizens. On 26 December Marco Aurelio Lorenzo, the Catholic parish priest for Macuelizo, Santa Bárbara, was travelling in a […]
January 2, 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 […]
January 26, 2012
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