On Friday, Latin America scholars sent an urgent letter<http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/08/21> to Human Rights Watch, urging HRW to speak out on violations of human rights under the coup regime in Honduras and to conduct its own investigation. HRW hasn't made any statement about Honduras since July 8. One of the things Human Rights Watch should be investigating is allegations by Honduran feminists and human rights groups that Honduran police are using rape and other sexual violence as weapons of intimidation against Hondurans nonviolently protesting the coup regime.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/coup-protestor-gang-raped_b_267139.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/coup-protestor-gang-raped_b_267139.html> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/24/11334/7736 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/304 <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/304> -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org nai...@justforeignpolicy.org Demand an Exit Strategy from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan
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