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Honduras continues to challenge challenges in the pursuit of fundamental freedoms, “including all levels of violence, impunity, discrimination and lack of access to economic, social and cultural rights “, was the high commissioner of the UN for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
In its information on the current situation and other issues in the Council of Human Rights of the United Nations, the High Commission underlined the covid-19 pandemic and its impact hurricane Iota and Eta the past year “he exacerbated the pre-existing obstacles that frighten the most vulnerable”.
Bachelet claims that during the state of emergency decreed in Honduras, the pandemic was recorded 665 social protests, and expressed concern about the arbitrary detentions practiced in them, as well as the excessive use of force on the part of the operatives.
También also expressed his displeasure at the “military security security” during the pandemic, which he called Gobierno hondureño ‘n “embark on a gradual process of demilitarization and fortification of the civil institutions“in the matter of security.
The Chilean President signaled that in 2020 the UN Office will continue to observe in Central American countries the facilities, perceptions and inclusions of human rights defenders, the medium and the world.
También also expressed his concern about “obstacles in the access to justice in various legal proceedings”, between them the relationship with the owner of the indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, cometido hace cinco años.
The high commission lamented by another lad that the Gobierno Honduran had not initiated consultative consultations to reform the new Code punishment, and underlined that many Hondurans return, to form part of the “migrant caravans”, volvieron “without fulfilling the criteria of voluntariness, dignity and security”.