Honduras
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The Leonela case is an opportunity to eliminate discrimination against LGBTTI people in Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa / Washington DC., August 2, 2024] On July 26, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights referred the case of Leonela Zelaya v. Honduras to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IA Court). This case concerns the transfemicide of Leonela in Honduras and is being represented Red Lésbica Cattrachas and Robert F. Kennedy…
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Caso Leonela es una oportunidad para eliminar discriminación contra las personas LGBTTI en Honduras
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa / Washington DC., 2 de agosto de 2024] El pasado 26 de julio, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos sometió el caso de Leonela Zelaya contra Honduras a la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH). Este caso se refiere al transfemicidio de Leonela en Honduras y está siendo representado por…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist…
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Trans murder in Honduras
Tags Share In 2009, 26-year-old trans woman and LGBTQ+ rights activist Vicky Hernández was murdered in Honduras during a coup d’etat perpetrated by a right-wing sector of society. For years, the legal team at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights fought for accountability in Vicky’s case. In 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a…
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New York Times: Court May Force Honduras to Better Protect Trans People
Tags Share Outraged by the long-ignored murder of trans activist Vicky Hernández, RFK Human Rights and Red Lésbica Cattrachas have brought her case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights demanding the state of Honduras be held accountable. It is the first time the Inter-American Court will rule on whether governments have done enough to…
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‘With This Light’ panel examines Honduran nun’s social justice legacy
Tags Share The Catholic faith, feminism and human rights work in Latin America have long been important to Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. They’ll all converge in a new way May 22, as Kennedy, bestselling author of Being Catholic Now, takes part in a panel alongside the “With This Light” film…
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Honduras: Judicial Delay Violates Access to Justice in “Gualcarque Fraud” Case
Tags Share Europe/The Americas, December 1, 2022.- The national and international organizations that make up the Expert Observation Mission in the Berta Cáceres Case call on the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras to promptly resolve the consultation on the amparo action that has suspended the trial in the process for…
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Honduras: Retraso judicial vulnera acceso a la justicia en caso “Fraude sobre el Gualcarque”
Tags Share Europa/Las Américas, 1 de diciembre de de 2022.- Las organizaciones nacionales e internacionales que componen la Misión de Observación Calificada en la Causa Berta Cáceres, llaman a la Sala de lo Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia a decidir prontamente la consulta sobre la acción de amparo que suspende el juicio oral…
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Honduras must honour Vicky Hernandez’s legacy with real change for trans people
Tags Share For Vicky Hernandez’s family and the hundreds of LGBTQ+ activists and allies in Honduras waiting several hours in 100-degree San Pedro Sula, heat was a matter of relativity. On the day Honduran President Xiomara Castro formally claimed responsibility on behalf of the state for Hernandez’s death, it had been almost 13 years since…
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Honduras has entered a critical moment for LGBTQ+ rights
Tags Share This May, a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights delegation traveled to Honduras aiming to reinforce the implementation of reparations ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a key legal victory: Vicky Hernández et al. v. Honduras, the Court’s first trans rights case. Alongside our partners at Red Lésbica Cattrachas, the group…
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Kerry Kennedy, mother of Vicky Hernandez celebrate Mother’s Day and discuss long-awaited justice
Tags Share San Pedro Sula, Honduras – Mother’s Day was a reunion seven years in the making for Kerry Kennedy and the mother of slain trans woman and activist, Vicky Hernandez. After climbing the steps to enter Vicky’s childhood home, the two women entered a tearful embrace. “Thank you for keeping hope alive and for…
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Kerry Kennedy demands continued justice for Vicky Hernandez, her family
Tags Share Tegucigalpa, Honduras — Visiting Honduras a year after the Inter American Court of Human Rights issued a landmark ruling holding the government of Honduras accountable for the murder of trans woman and activist Vicky Hernandez, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy demanded justice not only for Vicky’s life but the life…
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