Elizabeth Zúñiga
Elizabeth Zúñiga is a journalist and member of the syndicate of workers of Regional University Centre of the Pacific Coast (Centro Universitario Regional del Litoral Pacífico - CURLP), a branch of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (Universidad Nacional Autónoma - UNAH).
She had been collaborating with Mr. Héctor Orlando Martínez Motiño, a fellow human rights defender who was killed on 17 June 2015. Héctor Orlando Martínez Motiño was president of Section 6 of the Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras - SITRAUNAH (Workers' Union of the National Autonomous University of Honduras). She and Héctor Orlando Martínez Motiño had been working on 34 cases of human rights violations, including a number related to the personnel of the university, and Elizabeth Zúñiga is now the only person with information on these cases.
Los/as defensores/as de derechos humanos en Honduras sufren ejecuciones extrajudiciales, desapariciones forzadas, tortura y maltrato al igual que hostigamiento judicial, amenazas y estigmatización. Los/as periodistas, abogados/as, fiscales, quienes defienden los derechos de las mujeres, la niñez, la comunidad de personas lesbianas, gay, bisexuales, transgénero e intersexuales (LGBTI), las comunidades indígenas y afro hondureña y quienes trabajan en la defensa del medio ambiente y del derecho a la tierra están especialmente en riesgo.
