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By hondurasMarch 18, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights, News Flashes

Honduras Update: Police and Military pursue citizens in the street and seriously injure a woman with police vehicle

The Honduran Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared just released this statement that following the violent eviction of teachers from the National Teacher’s Pension Institute (Inprema) police and military are pursuing protesters in the street with tear gas and a tank with some kind of orange coloured chemical, which they believe has two functions: to overwhelm protesters with the toxins in the gas and to identify them with the orange colour so that they can be apprehended even after running away.

By hondurasMarch 18, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights, Reports

Honduras Accompaniment Project Update: Police repress protesters across the country

As this is being written, at 11:00 AM on March 18, 2011, police and military are violently evicting teachers from the National Teacher’s Pension Institute (INPREMA), which they have been occupying for two weeks protesting the new General Education Law, which teacher’s associations believe to be a legal mechanism to move towards the privatization of all levels of education in Honduras, and demanding the government pay a debt of approximately 1,500 million lempiras (approx. 80 million USD) which it owes the pension fund.

By jennyaMarch 16, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

URGENT ACTION: Aguan Valley Human Rights Defender Blanca Espinoza in Imminent Danger

The Honduran Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (COFADEH) repudiates the harassment and death threats directed towards human rights defender Blanca Azucena Espinoza, President of the Buenos Amigos Peasant Cooperative, in the municipality of Sabá in the department of Colón in the north of Honduras.

By jennyaMarch 9, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Commission of Truth opens new office in Tegucigalpa

By jennyaMarch 7, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights, News Flashes

International Mission Finds Human Rights Violations in Aguan Valley, Honduras

Tegucigalpa, Mar 5, 2011. (Prensa Latina) A total of 19 Honduran peasants were
killed in Bajo Aguan from Jan 2010 until today and all the crimes
remain unpunished, according to an International Mission that visited the area.

During the investigation that conducted between Feb 25 and Mar
4, 2011 the International Mission found numerous violations of human rights.

The leaders and members of peasant organizations have been threatened

By hondurasMarch 7, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectAction Alert, Human Rights, Take Action

2nd Urgent Action today: Human Rights Defender Threatened and Given Ultimatum (Trinidad Sánchez)

This is the 2nd urgent action being sent out today on behalf of COFADEH in Honduras – for a completely separate case then the action sent out less than an hour ago. Spanish version is below.

Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras

COFADEH

By hondurasMarch 7, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectAction Alert, Human Rights, News Flashes, Take Action

Urgent Action (COFADEH): Human Rights Defender at Risk

Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared of Honduras (COFADEH)

By hondurasFebruary 17, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectDelegation Information, Human Rights

Report Back from the January Honduras Accompaniment Project Delegation

A report-back from two members of the Friendship Office delegation to Honduras in January who were representing US-El Salvador Sister Cities. The original can be found at:

http://www.elsalvadorsolidarity.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&…

By hondurasFebruary 16, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectAction Alert, Human Rights

Police visit La Voz de Zacate Radio in Puerto Grande, Zacate Grande

Below is a quick translation of an original message in Spanish from volunteer Alessandro Bellini with the Italy – Central America Collective. As more information emerges, we will try to pass it on.

Hello friends,

By jennyaFebruary 10, 2011Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights

Grave Human Rights Violations Continue in Honduras

The National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP) denounced today that, in Honduras, grave human rights violations persist under the Porfirio Lobo Sosa administration.