Cofadeh

Human rights organization the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) and earlier local media reports suggested the assassin was a member of the police, but authorities are denying the claim. Police, relying on video footage of the killing, have arrested and taken into custody ...

The Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), the human rights group that helped Urbina leave Honduras safely and has advocated on his behalf, confirmed Wednesday that Urbina was in the care of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as an asylum seeker in ...

They fired live ammunition at mostly young protesters — killing at least 14 from November 30 to December 5, according to the Honduran human rights organization Committee of the Families of the Disappeared Detainees (COFADEH). There would be no official announcement for nearly two weeks, then ...

Eduardo Enrique Urbina Ayala was shocked to see his face and name making the rounds on social media, in posts that framed him as the person responsible for setting fire to a military truck during a protest at the height of Honduras' post-election crisis in December. The 22-year-old activist had left the ...

The Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) reports that between Nov. 28 and Dec. 30 alone the police and military detained over one thousand Nasralla supporters during massive and frequent protests against the allegedly fraudulent elections that took ...

Meanwhile, the Honduran military police are carrying out targeted attacks against protest leaders, journalists and human rights defenders in the wake of the post-electoral crisis, according to a leading Honduran human rights organisation, COFADEH. Thirty-four social leaders have been forced to leave the ...

The death is one of at least 30 blamed on security forces policing protests in Honduras since November, according to a report by the Committee for the Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH), a Honduran non-governmental organization founded in the 1980s. The majority of ...

Bertha Oliva, co-founder and director of the Honduran human rights organization COFADEH, has been defending human rights and fighting for justice for historic and ongoing abuses in the Central American country for over three decades. COFADEH formed to search and demand justice for the victims of ...

I had arrived at the Tegucigalpa offices of the Honduran human rights organization Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) at 8:30 that morning to meet with Bertha Oliva, the organization's director. Bertha, it turned out, was not at the office but at Flor del Campo police station ...