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OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 42/15 31 December 2015 Original: Spanish INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Situation of Human Rights in Honduras 2015
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INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Members Rose-Marie Belle Antoine James L. Cavallaro José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez Felipe González Tracy Robinson Rosa María Ortiz Paulo Vannuchi Executive Secretary Emilio Álvarez-Icaza L. Assistant Executive Secretary Elizabeth Abi-Mershed Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on December 31, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 11 INTRODUCTION 17 CITIZEN SECURITY 25 A.Violence and citizen insecurity 25 1.Rights Defenders and Justice Operators 29 a.Human Rights Defenders 30 b.Justice Operators 42 2.Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants 46 a.Violence 46 b.Impunity 55 3.Children and Adolescents 57 a.Violence 57 b.Impunity 63 4.Women 64 a.Violence 64 b.Impunity 69 5.Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender Persons (LGBT) 76 a.Violence 76 b.Impunity 79 6.Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees 81 7.Bajo Aguán 89 a.Violence 89 b.Impunity 95 8.Journalists and Media Workers 97 a.Violence 97 b.Impunity 112
9.Creation of the Special Police Unit the ‘TIGRES’ and of the Law Enforcement Military Police 128 10.Role of the National Police 138 11.The "Guardians of the Nation" program 142 B.Violence and access to justice 144 C.Access to justice and judicial independence 150 12.Judicial Independence 152 a.Council of the Judiciary 153 b.Selection and Appointment Procedures 155 c.Process of Judicial Purging and the Application of Trust Tests 156
13.Boys, girls and adolescents 180 14.Women 185 15.LGBT People 189 16.Indigenous People and Afro-descendants 191 17.Migrants 192 18.Bajo Aguán 197
19.Law on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Media Workers, and Justice Operators 202 20.Trainings 206
21.Women working in the maquilas 216 B.Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant persons 220 22.The situation of the Miskito divers 225 STATE OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 231 A.Pluralism and diversity in radio broadcasting 231 23.Regulation of the radio spectrum for broadcasting in the new digital dividend 232 24.Acknowledgment of the community sector 238
25.Sharp increase in the prison population and the State’s response to the problem 266 26.Uncontrolled self-governance, violence, lack of classification of persons deprived of liberty, and reports of torture, and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment 276 27.Increasing use of the armed forces in prisons 283 28.High rate of detained defendants 288 29.Situation of juveniles deprived of liberty 290 30.The Comayagua National Penitentiary 296
31.Citizen Security 301 32.Administration of justice 302
33.Women 303 34.Indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants 304 35.LGBT people 304 36.Children 305 37.Migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and forced displacement 306 38.Bajo Aguán 307 39.People deprived of liberty 307 40.Freedom of expression 308
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