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An independent fact-finding delegation to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, found that violence against women—including murder, rape and forced disappearances—has reached a crisis point in the region. The Nobel Peace Laureates are calling for concerted and immediate action to protect women—including those women doing frontline […]
February 29, 2012
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check The Honduras Supreme Court has cemented the fate of women trying to avoid unintended pregnancy–whether from unprotected sex, contraceptive failure, or rape–by upholding what is currently the strictest ban on emergency contraception in the world. The absolute ban would criminalize the sale, distribution, and use of […]
May 16, 2011
Freedom of expression came under attack. Little progress was made in repairing the damage to human rights protection and the rule of law that followed the 2009 coup. Impunity for human rights violations by military and police officers persisted. Human rights defenders were subject to intimidation. Background Porfirio Lobo of the National Party became President […]
August 12, 2010
The peasant leader Maria Teresa Flores, who was missing since last August 7, was found dead with signs of having been tortured and then executed with shots from a firearm. Flores, mother of 14 children, was part of the Coordinating Council of Peasant Organizations of Honduras (COCOCH) and she used to head the Peasant Organization […]
August 4, 2010
A Honduran human rights defender has received a threatening email message and a series of anonymous phone calls. Amnesty International believes that her life may be in danger. On the evening of 17 July, Gladys Lanza, Coordinator for the Visitación Padilla Pro-Peace Women’s Movement (Movimiento de Mujeres por la Paz Visitación Padilla) received an email […]
July 29, 2010
The car of a Honduran human rights lawyer has been broken into, her papers searched and a laptop computer stolen. Amnesty International believes that she has been targeted because of her human rights work, and she may be in danger. On 21 July, Kenia Oliva Cardona,a lawyer with the Honduran human rights organization Committee of […]
March 9, 2010
A peaceful activity was taking place today, March 8, to mark International Women’s Day by the Feminists of the Resistance when it was repressed by authorities with the intention of disrupting the event at the National Congress and ironically, by the Women’s National Institute, INAM. According to INAM’s mission, “One of the fundamental pillars of […]
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 […]
March 7, 2010
Blanca Dole, Celeste Mejía and Gabriela Flores, of the COFEMUN directive, denounced that they are followed constantly since last December by vehicles with polarized windows and no nameplates, and receive threatening phone calls asking for abortion pills and where abortion clinics are. The Feminist Collective of University Women (COFEMUN) is a women’s organization that has […]
February 24, 2010
Tegucigalpa (AFP). A well-known activist with the Resistance Front against the Coup of June 28 in Honduras, Claudia Brizuela, was shot at and assassinated today, Wednesday [February 24] in San Pedro Sula, north of country, this group denounced. “Today at 2:00 pm, unidentified people came to the Céleo Gonzáles neighborhood, north of the city, knocked […]
February 21, 2010
Partial listing of human rights violations during the months of January and February 2010.
February 11, 2010
Elizabeth Gutierrez Reyes is the coordinator of the National People’s Resistance Front (FNRP) for Puerto Cortés, the port city a half hour to the north of Honduras’s industrial capital, San Pedro Sula. She has also championed maquila workers’ rights through the labor federation FESITRADEH, and the working women’s collective COMUTRA. In 2009, Elizabeth spoke throughout […]
February 10, 2010
Edgar Martínez, his wife Carol de Martínez (both leaders of the resistance in Ciudad Planeta, San Pedro Sula, north of Honduras), his brother Johan Martínez, and Carol’s sister, Melissa Rivera, were kidnapped on Wednesday, February 10. The couple was kidnapped by seven hooded men and taken to the El Venado mountain region and showed visible […]
February 2, 2010
Yesterday a member of the Syndicate of Workers of the Honduran Social Security Institute (SITRAIHSS) was found dead in the Loarque neighborhood. As yet the security forces have not captured the executioners. In an quiet area in the Loarque neighborhood, south of the city , the body of Vanessa Zepeda, an active member of the […]
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March 7, 2012
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