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The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) and the Honduras Accompaniment Project (PROAH) would like to express our concern at the death threats received by members of PROAH, an international organization that provides accompaniment for human rights defenders at risk in Honduras. On the 26th of April in the […]
April 24, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA – Television personality Noel Valladares and two companions were gunned down Monday in Tegucigalpa, Honduran police said. A fourth person was wounded in the attack, police inspector Jose Martinez told reporters. Unknown assailants opened fire on the host of the entertainment program “Tecolote” and the other three people as they walked out of the […]
April 24, 2012
Dina Meza, a Honduran journalist and human rights activist, has received a series of threats of sexual violence against her in recent weeks. Her safety is at risk. Dina Meza reports on human rights issues for the website Defenders Online (Defensores en Linea). She is also a human rights activist with the Committee of the […]
April 18, 2012
Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government. The coordinated invasions took place in several locations across the country, activists and officials say. Farmers groups say the areas taken over are public lands where poor farmers have the right to grow food under […]
April 16, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA – An ongoing struggle over land in the Caribbean coastal province of Colon claimed five more lives this week, Honduran police said Friday. Three employees of agribusiness firm Quimicas Dinant, owned by mogul Miguel Facusse, were fatally shot on Thursday while driving between the towns of Olanchito and Saba, the National Police said in […]
April 6, 2012
The US government and multilateral institutions must demand an end to the human rights abuses surrounding land disputes. Springfield, MA – Honduras now claims the dubious distinction of being the murder capital of the world as drug trafficking and gangs play an undeniable role in the violence plaguing the small central American country. However, there […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
April 30, 2012
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