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During the 1980s, the organization "withstood harassment and intimidation by Honduran security forces". [5] Following testimony that CODEH regional director in northern Honduras, Miguel Ángel Pavón Salazar, gave against the Honduran government in October 1987 before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), he was shot dead on 14 January 1988.
In 1982, in response to these human rights violations, 12 families of disappeared Hondurans, including Bertha Oliva de Nativí, whose husband Professor Tomás Nativí was disappeared in 1981, created the human rights NGO Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, COFADEH).
Established as early as 1826, the Ministry of Human Rights, Justice, Governance and Decentralization of Honduras was created from the territorial division of Honduras and was initially composed of seven departments.
During the pre-independence period the province of Honduras was governed under the 1808 Constitution of Bayonne.. Constitution of 1812 (Constitution of Cádiz), valid from 1812 to 1814 and from 1820 to 1823
Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos).Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.The governor represents the executive branch in the region in addition to acting as intermediary between municipalities and various national authorities; resolves issues arising between municipalities; oversees the penitentiaries and prisons in ...
Tela was founded by the Spanish conquistador Cristóbal de Olid on 3 May 1524; 500 years ago (), near an indigenous town, Tehuacán, ruled by a cacique named Cucumba, which had a very good source of clean water, food and medicinal plants. Olid named his town Triunfo de la Cruz (Triumph of the Cross), as it was founded on this Catholic holy day.
National Party of Honduras: Francisco Escobar: 1915-1918 Francisco Bográn: 1919-1920 Angel Ugarte: 1921 Liberal Party of Honduras: Miguel Oqueli Bustillo: 1923 Liberal Party of Honduras: Ángel Sevilla Ramírez: 1924 National Party of Honduras: Ramón Alcerro Castro: 1924 President of the Constituent Assembly of 1924 Venancio Callejas: 1925–1926
[2] In 1994, the organization affiliated with the Confederation of Autochthonous Peoples of Honduras . In the same year, Lenca activists from the group who wished to work more closely with the government and multilateral institutions created a rival Lenca organization, the National Indigenous Lenca Organization of Honduras . By 1998, COPINH had ...