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Honduras Accompaniment Project works to accompany the nonviolent social movement in Honduras in the face of the repression begun by the coup.

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 tomlFebruary 10, 2010Honduras Accompaniment ProjectHuman Rights, News Flashes

Honduran Human Rights violations: January – Feb. 2010

What follows is a partial listing of human rights violations during the months of January and February 2010. Honduran Human rights organizations have expressed concerns about a marked increase in selective targeting of people and communities active in the resistance movement and asked for vigilance on the part of the international community.

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By tomlFebruary 9, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, News Flashes

Union Leader murdered in Honduras

On February 3, Vanessa Zepeda, a 29 year old nurse and SITRAIHASS union leader (Honduran Social Security Institute) left her home at 2pm. At approximately 6:30 pm, her lifeless body was dumped out of a vehicle in Loarque, a neighborhood well known for resistance movement activities. Vanessa had received repeated death threats linked to her activism in the resistance movement which had been registered by human rights organizations. She was the mother of three children; the youngest is 4 months old.

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

Death Threats against COFADEH Personnel

The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) are denouncing that today, Sunday, February 7 at 8 am, Caniel Martinez, who was in the offices of our organization received a phone call from the number 222-71-44 in which a woman told him, “Be careful there will be an attack against you, especially those of you who are in the street”. Martinez states that when he asked the women who was calling she hung up the telephone.

By tomlFebruary 8, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, News Flashes

State Terrorism against the resistance movement contradicts discource of reconciliation

Feb. 5, 2010 COFADEH

The state terrorism which has been implemented since June 28, 2009 against the people of Honduras in the form of selective crimes, political persecution and other human rights violations contradicts the discourse of reconciliation and the installation of a Truth Commission.

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 tomlFebruary 1, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

More Hondurans Protest Inauguration than Attend

Jan 27^th 2010 Tegucigalpa, Written by Chris Dadok

In the capital Tegucigalpa, buses and private cars surround the stadium as political party members, congressmen, international delegates, and mayors enter to attend the inauguration of the recently declared president of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa. Despite the high attendance close to 20,000, the stadium stands unfilled. Outside on Boulevard Fuerza Armadas -passing under the bridges inscribed with political graffiti – over 200,000 Honduran teachers, small business owners, lawyers, youth, farmers, and many other employed and unemployed people march 5 kilometers across the city. They are protesting what they see as corruption and an illegitimate government. The simultaneous rallies mark the divided nature in which the coup d’état has left Honduras.

By tomlFebruary 1, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

Declaration of the Hemispheric Social Alliance on Honduras

Honduras: without democracy and without a President. The Resistance continues.

Today a group of Presidents (Panama, Dominican Republic, Colombia and Taiwan) as well as official delegations from 15 other countries including Australia, United States, Canada, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, the Vatican, Peru, Switzerland and Turkey will assist a parody of the transition of presidential power with leading roles played by Mr. Jose Lobo and other actors and authors of the coup de tat that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009.

By tomlJanuary 28, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights, Quest Import

Honduran Coup d’état, a ‘win’ for the U.S.?

January 27, 2010

Today, Pepe Lobo will be inaugurated as the new President of Honduras in what many consider to be an institutionalization of the coup d’état which took place seven months ago. Lobo comes to the Presidency as a result of a highly disputed election process carried out by the coup regime. The elections, which have been widely condemned as illegitimate were boycotted by a large percentage of the Honduran population.

By January 27, 2010Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua LibreHuman Rights

Video: Repression in Honduras

Haz un click para español. This powerful video was made by Cesar Silva, a publicist who before the coup in Honduras worked for Channel 8, the State Television Channel. He made this video in collaboration with Edwin Renán Fajardo Argueta. Once the coup happened, and Channel 8 was no longer directed by the Zelaya government, Cesar continued his work as a journalist, but as an individual in collaboration with Edwin.

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