TEGUCIGALPA, Aug 14 (Reuters) By Gustavo Palencia – The Honduran government must investigate the cases of 22 journalists murdered in the last two years in a country that has the world’s highest murder rate, a United Nations envoy said on Tuesday. Frank La Rue, a U.N. special freedom of expression rapporteur, also demanded that President
On June 22, Accompaniment Organizations working in Central America sent an "Open Letter to the distinguished members of the international diplomatic corps and international organizations with a presence in or focus on Honduras" outlining concerns about threats received by international accompaniers of PROAH and the recent increase in attacks on human rights defenders in Honduras. See letter attached.
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From 20 to 24 May 2012, a commission organised by COFADEH (the Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras) visited La Ceiba and La Moskitia to document the tragic events of 11 May, when four passengers in a river boat were killed when they were shot from helicopters during a joint
From 20 to 24 May 2012, a commission organised by COFADEH (the Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras) visited La Ceiba and La Moskitia to document the tragic events of 11 May, when four passengers in a river boat were killed when they were shot from helicopters during a joint
A new book documenting the history of the grassroots movement to halt American intervention in Nicaragua, including interviews with the Friendship Offices’ Rita Clark and Tom Loudon, has just been released by University of Massachusetts Press. — A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign by Roger Peace.
In a letter sent yesterday to President Lobo, 17 members of the United States Congress expressed concern regarding the escalation of violence targeting human rights defenders and international human rights accompaniment efforts in Honduras in recent months. The representatives requested an exhaustive investigation into recent death threats issued to human rights defenders, journalists and PROAH accompaniers by C.A.M.
The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras, COFADEH, expresses its total repudiation and extreme concern for the abandonment on the part of the state of Honduras, of the victims of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Honduran security agents’ antidrug operation carried out on May 11, 2012 in the community of Paptalaya, Ahuas, Department of Gracias a Dios.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) —The new chief chosen to clean up a Honduran national police force tarred with allegations of corruption and involvement in murders was accused by the department’s internal affairs investigators of running a death squad when he was a top regional police official.
