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By jennyaFebruary 12, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreAction Alert, Human Rights, Take Action

Call-in Solidarity with Victims of State Terror in Honduras

Since the November elections in Honduras which resulted in the installation of Porfilio Lobo as President on January 27, 2010, the human rights situation in Honduras has continued to deteriorate. According to human rights organizations, there is a marked increase in selective targeting of people and communities active in the resistance movement. Despite a public discourse of reconciliation on the part of Lobo, partners in Honduras are experiencing increased levels of state terror.

By jennyaFebruary 3, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreAction Alert

Take Action to Stop Impunity in Honduras

On January 27, 2010 a new president assumed office in Honduras in what the resistance movement considers an institutionalization of the June 2009, military coup d’état. The Generals directly involved in the coup were granted immunity, reinforcing the culture of impunity that humans rights defenders have worked so hard to dismantle in Honduras.

By jennyaJanuary 15, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, News Flashes

Unified Peasant Movement Alert: More are captured

January 13, 2010 – At 1:30pm, a military and police patrol captured three members of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan along the Aguan river. The men are members of the Buenos Amigos Cooperative in the municipality of Trujillo. According to farmers in the zone, there are approximately 1000 armed men, military and paramilitary, under the command of Coronel Dagoberto Melgar occupying the area. He is suspected of selling protection services to large African palm plantation owners in the region.

Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan

By jennyaJanuary 13, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

Unified Peasant Movement Alert: More are captured

Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguan

By jennyaJanuary 8, 2010Alliance for Responsible Trade, Nicaragua LibreAction Alert, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Today’s violence against peasant families – detained, wounded and deaths

According to preliminary reports from Honduras, the violent removal of 600 families organized in two farming cooperatives in the Aguan Valle has resulted in 40 people detained including children, 15 wounded and three deaths. There are unconfirmed reports of the rape of three women. Many have gone into hiding.

Radio Progreso, Equipo de Reflexión Investigación ERIC

COFADEH

By jennyaJanuary 8, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, Nicaragua

COFADEH Urgent Alert: Police and military repress peasants in Trujillo and Tocoa

Jan 8, 2010 – A heavy contingent of military and police began to violently remove peasant families occupying land in Trujillo and Tocoa in the department of Colón. This marks an avalanche against this social movement on the part of a justice system that colludes with elite power groups and underscores the need to re-found the country according to Bertha Oliva, Coordinator of the Committee of Families of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, COFADEH.

By jennyaJanuary 6, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, Nicaragua

Honduras – Garifuna Community Radio Attacked

Urgent! Attack against Garifuna community radio in Triunfo de la Cruz

Today, early this morning, the Faluma Bimetu community radio was the victim of an attack carried out by unknown authors who set fire to the room where the community radio was installed.

By jennyaJanuary 5, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua

Message from teachers in Honduras

Since the disputed election at the end of November, repression of the resistance in Honduras has continued. A number of activists have been killed and others detained and beaten badly. Because of the role the teachers were playing in the resistance, the government shut the schools for holidays a month early, at the end of October instead of November. The government has tried to make up the month of missed classes by starting school a month early—as of today, January 4.

By jennyaJanuary 4, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Reports

COFADEH Vigil on New Years Day – Warnings of Death Squads and Dirty War

From Military Coup de tat, to illegitimate government of force – Entering the year 2010

This week’s kidnapping, disappearance, torture and interrogation of journalist Cesar Omar Silva by a street patrol with military training confirms the existence of a pattern of systematic violations of human rights committed by the same structure that violated the constitutional order on June 28, 2009.

This pattern is the responsibility of the “hard hand” of the coup regime that imposes state violence on a citize

By jennyaDecember 30, 2009Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHonduran Elections 2009: Delegation Report-backs, Human Rights, Nicaragua, Reports

8th International Witness Delegation to Honduras – Report on "Elections"

Over the last five months, as we and other solidarity and indepedent media organizations have reported on the egregious human rights violations and other anti-democratic measures committed by the illegal coup regime, that regime has sought to legitimize itself through the execution of the national electoral process originally scheduled for November 29th. The 8th Quixote Center delegation was in Honduras for that event.

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