Human Rights

CCR Welcomes Release of Honduran True Commission Report, Condemns Continuing Attacks on Human Rights Defenders

Domingo 14 de Octubre de 2012 20:04 CRR

October 3, 2012, New York – In response to the release of a report today by the Honduran True Commission, the alternative commission established to investigate and document the coup d’etat of June 28, 2009 and human rights violations that have followed it, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement:

We congratulate the True Commission on the publication of this historic report, which documents the severe human rights crisis following the 2009 coup d’etat.

Ultima actualización ( Domingo 14 de Octubre de 2012 20:53 )

Honduras: Now Open for Political Murder

Jueves 11 de Octubre de 2012 04:33 by NICK ALEXANDROV

Last Wednesday’s presidential debate, and the flurry of fact-checking that followed, helped sustain the illusion that Republicans and Democrats are bitter rivals. Reporters and analysts obsessed over the accuracy of each candidate’s claims, ignoring the two parties’ broadly similar goals, which mainstream political scientists now take for granted....

The Wave of Persecution and Harassment Continues in the Campesino Settlements of the Aguán.

Martes 02 de Octubre de 2012 19:39 MUCA

Today at about 6:00 am, members of the army and national police tried to enter the finca La Lempira located in the right margin of the river Aguan in Tocoa, Colon.

We regret that in the midst of a possible willingness on the part of the government to move forward with the implementation of the agreements signed on April 13, 2010 (sic, the agreement...

Ultima actualización ( Martes 02 de Octubre de 2012 20:14 )

Bertha Oliva: We are being picked off piece by piece!

Miércoles 26 de Septiembre de 2012 19:41 Girgio Trucchi Rel-UITA

Bertha Oliva: We are being picked off piece by piece!Pushes for more belligerence in the international community

By Girgio Trucchi – Rel-UITA http://nicaraguaymasespanol.blogspot.it/2012/09/honduras-bertha-oliva-nos-estan.html

While a crowd at the San Miguel Arcángel cemetery in Tegucigalpa said their goodbyes to Antonio Trejo Cabrera, the campesino...

Ultima actualización ( Miércoles 26 de Septiembre de 2012 20:23 )

More Blood in Aguan as Violence and Repression Escalates

Jueves 13 de Septiembre de 2012 05:49 La Voz de los de Abajo

Another Campesino Murdered Today

At approximately 12:30 pm, compesinos from the campesino group Refundacion Gregorio Chavez were fired on by private security guards working for Miguel Facusse. Herman Alejandro Maldonado was killed and Ivis Ortega was gravely wounded. The campesinos were working on the plantation (finca) Panama which is near the town...