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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 […]
September 2, 2011
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 […]
September 1, 2011
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 […]
July 4, 2011
“The soldiers came with an eviction order saying we had weapons” Saturday July 2, 2011. On Friday June 24 the judge of letters from the city of Tocoa, Josue Mejia Pagoada issued an eviction order addressed for Rigores Peasant Movement in Lower Aguan. When it took place hours later, 114 houses were demolished (valued at 14,000 Lempiras […]
June 16, 2011
By Annie Bird On Sunday, June 5, Jose Recinos Aguilar, Joel Santamaria and Genaro Cuesta, all members of the Authentic Revindicative Campesino Movement of the Aguan (MARCA), were massacred in a car a few meters from the San Esteban cooperative. At approximately the same time it is reported that armed forces entered the installations of […]
May 18, 2011
Sixto Ramos (45), a member of the campesino cooperative Nueva Suyapa, of the Peasant Movement of Aguán, MCA, was murdered at about eight o’clock on Wednesday, 18 May, shot several times from a passing car, when he was going to his organization. This is one of several murders in recent days. On May 9, Roney Diaz […]
December 20, 2010
FOR THE FULL REPORT SEE: After the Coup: Ongoing Violence, Intimidation, and Impunity in Honduras Honduran authorities should take concrete steps to end impunity for abuses committed after the country’s 2009 coup, and to curb ongoing attacks against journalists, human rights defenders, and political activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The […]
August 20, 2010
CORRECTION: Upon direct conversation by Radio Progreso with Berta Oliva, it was discovered that there are indeed 100 unidentified bodies at a morgue between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. The morgue announced that it will create a mass grave for them and some of them might belong to the names of disappeared people. But a […]
March 8, 2010
Washington, D.C., March 8, 2010—The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns and laments the murders last month of three persons in Honduras who were active in the resistance to the coup d’état or related to activists. It also deplores the kidnappings, arbitrary detentions, acts of torture, sexual violations, and illegal raids to which other […]
January 27, 2010
Today, January 27, at 8:00 am, members of the Unified Movement of Peasants of Aguan in the municipality of Trujillo, were attacked by elements of the Tocoa Police, members of the Fifteenth Army Battalion located in Rio Claro, Trujillo and private security guard of businessmen René Morales and Gustavo Canales. As a result of the […]
December 5, 2009
The massacre of and aggression towards members of the resistance and their families continues. On December 5th, a group of men wearing cloths from the National Criminal Investigative Unit (DNIC) with masks on arrived at the Carrizal and Mery Flores neighborhoods at one in the morning and violently entered the houses of Ms. Vilma Martínez […]
November 28, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 26 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA-XINHUA) – The assassination of a National Front resistance leader in the southern Honduran region clouds even more the tense political atmosphere in the country, ahead of the general elections on Sun Nov 29. The body of Luis Gradis Espinal was found yesterday after he was arrested by the police, Front […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
December 19, 2011
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