Protection International has accompanied the Honduran civil society initiatives aimed at establishing a legal framework on the protection of human rights defenders -HRDs- in the country, due to the high risk that HRDs are facing as a result of their daily work. On May 15th the new “Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice System Operators’ Protection Law” was enacted. Following the publication of the Law on Protection, [...]
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today concluded an onsite visit to Honduras, which took place December 1-5, 2014, for the purpose of monitoring the general human rights situation in the country. The delegation was led by the Chair of the IACHR, Tracy Robinson; the First Vice-Chair, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine; and Commissioners José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, Rosa María Ortiz, Paulo Vannuchi, and James Cavallaro. Other [...]
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8 October 2014, Brussels- In April 2015, Honduras is scheduled to be reviewed at the 22nd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is ‘a mechanism of the Human Rights Council (HRC) aiming at improving the human rights situation on the ground of each of the 193 United Nations (UN) Member States’ (1). In the run up to the UPR 2015 of Honduras, several civil society organisations have [...]
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