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.
In Washington D.C. members of the Honduras Working Group, a subgroup of the Latin America Working Group LAWG, including a represenative of PROAH, had a full week of Congressional visits to discuss the worsening crisis in Honduras.
The response of the international community to death threats received by the PROAH team was immediate, strong and is ongoing.
“I condemn the murder of Erick Martínez Ávila,” declared the Director-General. “I am deeply concerned about this second journalist killed in Honduras in a month and call on the authorities to bring to justice the perpetrators of this crime against the basic human right of freedom of expression.
Defensores en Linea 4/23/2012 – Dina Meza, a Honduran journalist and human rights activist, has received a series of threats of sexual violence against her in recent weeks. Her safety is at risk. PLEASE NOTE: PROAH accepts applications on an ongoing basis from individuals who have been trained for human rights accompaniment in the recent past with organizations familiar to PROAH who have extensive experience in accompaniment work in a comparable context and fulfill the rest of the requirements mentioned above and in this PDF.
International Accompaniers in Honduras receive Death Threats
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International Accompaniers in Honduras receive Death Threats
The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) and the Honduras Accompaniment Project (PROAH) would like to express our concernat the death th
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NEW DEADLINE: Next Human Rights Accompaniment Training for new volunteers, June 2012 in Atlantic Canada
