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Romero is a human rights activist based in Santa Elena, La Paz, Honduras. [1] She a member of the Lenca Indigenous Movement [1] a leader of the San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Council. [2] She campaigns against a hydroelectric dam, concerned about its impact on the natural resources. [3]
MILPAH (Movimiento Independiente Indígena Lenca de La Paz Honduras) is an indigenous rights group, based in the La Paz region of Honduras. The group was formed in 2010 when Honduran indigenous communities organised in response to the effect of mining companies and hydroelectric projects on territories of the Lenca people. The presence of the ...
Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras [1] (COFADEH, Spanish: Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras) is a human rights NGO in Honduras founded in 1982 by 12 families of disappeared Hondurans, including Bertha Oliva de Nativí (also spelt: Berta, Olivia), whose husband Professor Tomás Nativí was disappeared in 1981.
On 20 June 2023, a prison riot broke out in the Women's Center for Social Adaptation, [a] a women's prison located in Támara, Honduras, about 29 km (18 mi) northwest from Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital. The riot is suspected to be the result of a conflict between female members of the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs. [1]
Curfew times are announced on radio stations, differ daily and between regions of Honduras. Amnesty International described the curfew implementation as "arbitrary". [16] The ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua said that on the 29th they were detained and beaten by Honduran troops before being released. [17]
Amnesty International is seeking a meeting with the president, who is currently running for reelection. ... From October 2023 to January 2024, no permanent residencies have been renewed or issued ...
During the 1980s, the organization "withstood harassment and intimidation by Honduran security forces". [5] Following testimony that CODEH regional director in northern Honduras, Miguel Ángel Pavón Salazar, gave against the Honduran government in October 1987 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), he was shot dead on 14 January 1988.
March 25 – Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China. [ 3 ] June 20 – At least 41 women are killed in a riot at a women's prison in the town of Támara.