OFRANEH
El Foro de Naciones Unidas (ONU) sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos nombra a OFRANEH (Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña) como organización ganadora del Premio de Derechos Humanos y Empresas 2023.
La Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras (OFRANEH) articula procesos para la defensa de los derechos del pueblo garífuna y los pueblos indígenas de Honduras. Defender la vida, la cultura y el territorio son los propósitos que unen a las comunidades costeras de la zona norte en la OFRANEH. Sus mujeres son, en gran medida, quienes sostienen y ayudan a la organización a construir modelos de vida comunitaria alrededor del cuidado colectivo y el bien común. En los últimos años, estas defensoras y OFRANEH se han convertido en víctimas de cientos de ataques de derechos humanos.
Human rights defenders suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment as well as judicial harassment, threats and stigmatisation. Journalists, lawyers, prosecutors, those defending the rights of women, children, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community, indigenous and Afro-Honduran communities, and those working on environmental and land rights issues are particularly at risk.
LGBTI defenders in Honduras are doubly discriminated against. They are discriminated firstly because they are human rights defenders and secondly because they defend LGBTI rights. Journalists continue to face increased risks as they report on human rights violations. Constant threats, harassment and killings of journalists have led many to self-censor. 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.
