Archive for July, 2010
Comisión propone 7 puntos para retorno de Honduras a la OEA
TEGUCIGALPA - La Asamblea General la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), tiene en su poder el documento final que redactó una comisión que en junio anterior recibió un mandato en Lima, Perú, para que redactara un informe sobre la situación de Honduras y analizara su reintegró a ese foro continental. Read more
United Nations: Dismissal of Honduran judges sends an intimidating message
29 July 2010 (New York, NY) – The recent dismissal of three judges and a magistrate in Honduras, apparently because they spoke out during the political crisis that engulfed the country last year, sends a disturbing message to other jurists in the Central American country, three independent United Nations human rights experts warned today. Read More
Human Rights Watch: Ongoing Attacks Foster Climate of Intimidation in Honduras
(Washington DC) – Six months after President Porfirio Lobo took office, Honduras has made little progress toward addressing the serious human rights abuses since the 2009 coup, Human Rights Watch said today. Threats and attacks against journalists and the political opposition have fostered a climate of intimidation, while impunity for abuses remains the norm. Read more