Jarrod Rudd
November 6, 2009
4:17 pm
Representatives from Honduran women’s organizations presented many violations of women’s human rights by the de facto regime led by Roberto Micheletti before the Inter-American Human Rights commission on November 2. They claim the coup regime and its security forces raped, beat, murdered, and harassed the women of Honduras is the resistance movement. This is an ongoing crisis that continues to claim victims and women are particularly at risk. Honduras women have been the backbone of the resistance movement against the coup from its very beginning and because of that they have suffered tremendously. Honduras has a strong and organized feminist movement that came together by the integration of hundreds of independent women, in a coalition to resistance following the coups formation. They think the only was women’s rights can be restored to Honduras is if they return to a constitutional government.
All I can say to this is….really. I don’t see how or why people would purposely do this to women o their own country. I think no matter how hard people try, others will still disrespect other people and cause things like this to continue to happen. I’m glad that at least the women are coming together and fighting this and not just standing back watching it happen. This shows some progress is being made. I just hope it’s enough to wake up other places to show them that there situations are still going on and the abuse of women needs to be stopped.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57416.shtml
2 comments:
I agree with your reaction, and I am also glad that the women are starting to fight back, and stand up for themselves. I as well cannot believe this even happens to women, and hopefully the resistance will influence other countries to stand up for their own women who face the same troubles.
Wow this is awful. I agree with you in your reaction. I am glad that these women are stepping up and taking action. Hopefully this will have an influence on other countries and there women will start standing up for themselves too.
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