Tag: Human Rights

By Honduras Accompaniment Project

IACHR DEPLORES MURDERS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND ATTACKS IN HONDURAS

PRESS RELEASE    N° 26/10
IACHR DEPLORES MURDERS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND ATTACKS IN HONDURAS
Washington, D.C., March 8, 2010—The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns and laments the murders last month of three persons in Honduras who were active in the resistance to the coup d’état or related to activists. It also deplores the kidnappings, arbitrary detentions, acts of torture, sexual violations, and illegal raids to which other members of the resistance have been victims. The IACHR also expresses its deep concern over information it has received indicating that sons and daughters of activists are being threatened and harassed, and that in two cases they have been killed.
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By Honduras Accompaniment Project

COFADEH list of murders since the coup in Honduras

The accompanying pdf document is a list of confirmed political murders since the coup d’état was carried out in Honduras in June 2009. It has been very carefully prepared by COFADEH, as a part of their Third Report since the coup.   Regarding the deaths listed, they have only included in their report the deaths which their staff has personally investigated. It is widely understood in Honduras that the number of murders is much higher than those listed here, but there are many factors which contribute to a reporting of fewer deaths.
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By Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua Libre

III Situational Report from COFADEH in Honduras (Spanish version only)

The Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) release III Human Rights Report for Honduras in the context of the coup d’état. This report provides a contextual analysis and full report on abuses documented by COFADEH for the period of October 2009- January 2010.  (Translation of this document is in process, and we will post the translated version as soon as it is completed.)
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By Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua Libre, ,

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. 

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By Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua Libre,

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.

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By Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua Libre

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.

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By Honduras Accompaniment Project, Nicaragua Libre

More Hondurans Protest Inauguration than Attend

 Jan 27th 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.

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