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delegation on human rights following the coup in Honduras

articles for Annual Report 2010 of the Ecumenical Office for Peace and Justice Association

At an event in March 2010 in Munich EineWeltHaus had the Honduran human rights activist Bertha Oliva and the representative of the democracy movement FNRP Jesus Garza called on the German supporters to come into the country and with their own eyes to bear witness to what is moving there and how serious the human rights violations by the government of President Porfirio Lobo still are. This is important both for the protection of activists and human rights defenders, on the other hand, it is urgently necessary to break the silence of the international media since the elections in November 2009, barely over Honduras reported and so gave the impression that with the new government of coup overcome. That the opposite is the case, confirmed by the members of the German-Honduran coordinator, an association of journalists, parliamentarians, human rights organizations and aid agencies with contact persons in Honduras. They encouraged us to provide a to organize delegation for journalists and human rights defenders in Honduras.
Suitable participants soon found themselves and prepared for two weekends in the fall for the trip. cooperation partners of the project included the German-speaking Honduras coordination, Friends of Oscar-Romero-Haus eV in Bonn, the information group, Latin America, Austria (IGLA), the International Secretariat of FIAN, the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, Bundestag member Heike Hänsel, the Christian Initiative Romero in Münster eV (CIR), the Queer Alliance Tróchez Walter, the Internet portal www.amerika21.de, The human rights organization CAREA eV, Vía Campesina Austria, Austria and SÜDWIND ATTAC Austria. total of ten free journalists and representatives of independent NGOs and initiatives from Germany and Austria arrived on 6 to 20 December 2010 Honduras.

aim of the trip was to get information out about the current situation of human rights, to grasp the demands of the democracy movement and to make their situation through international public relations in Europe public. Furthermore, the participants examined the positions and the role of the representatives of the Federal Government and the European Union in Honduras and the Honduran government human rights policy.

These were human rights organizations, representatives of the democracy movement as well as visiting Honduran and international official bodies and interviewed about their attitudes on the current political situation.

led a tour through the country to places including acute conflict situations. In Bajo Aguan on the north coast, the delegates witnessed the evacuation of a settlement of landless peasants, in Zacate Grande there were farm workers, who opposed the illegal appropriation of their homes by a major international bank, in La Esperanza from the Salvadoran border members of the Lenca ethnic group who defend themselves against a barrage major project on the territory of their communities. In these and other cases, the activists of threats and acts of violence reported to their organizations, which are all part of the resistance movement FNRP (see country report, page XX).

In Tegucigalpa, the delegation met with other organizations active in the FNRP, with human rights organizations and with representatives of official bodies of the Honduran and German Governments and the EU Commission.

The delegation ended with a press conference in which the government certifies Lobo a way to deal with the opposition in the country was, has nothing in common with democratic standards. According to EU Commission and federal government have been criticized for its support of the controversial regime.

with representatives of the FNRP and human rights organizations have made agreements on further cooperation.

Back in Europe, the collected information in radio, print and online reports, a booklet and a photo exhibition, events and seminars will be made public.

addition to a written question in parliament to Honduras policy of the Federal Government, the European funding for the Honduran security forces be discussed in public.

The request Honduran and international human rights organizations to train human rights observers, and to send to Honduras, we try to comply.