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Juan Francisco Martinez

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Juan Francisco Martinez

HRD, Member
Movimiento Indígena Lenca de la Paz- Honduras – MILPA
Case HistoryStatus: Killed
Rights: 
#Indigenous Peoples / Campesino Rights
#Land Rights
Violations:
#Killing
#Torture / Ill-Treatment
Location: 
#Honduras

Juan Francisco Martínez was a member of the Movimiento Indígena Lenca de la Paz- Honduras – MILPA (Lenca Independent Movement of La Paz - Honduras), and worked on issues relating to the rights to water, land and territory for the Lenca community.

Honduras

Human rights defenders suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment as well as judicial harassment, threats and stigmatisation. Since the 2009 military coup, the number of killings, threats and acts of intimidation against campesinos and environmental rights defenders has increased. The perpetrators of violations against many defenders of environmental, land and indigenous rights, are often influential landowners or logging companies.

#Honduras
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