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Jody Williams to Obama: Stand Up for Women's Rights in Honduras
Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams and Executive Director of the human rights organization Just Associates, Lisa VeneKlassen, called upon US President Barack Obama to speak out "strongly and clearly" against the widespread human rights violations that have occurred in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras. The brunt of these violations have been endured by the women of Honduras.
In an Opinion Editorial in the Christian Science Monitor this week, the women urge Obama to live up to the expectations the his administration has raised in making support for women's rights a pillar of its foreign policy and show that it is serious about democracy.
Speaking out strongly and clearly against these abuses would improve Washington's moral authority. It would also signal to the rest of Latin America that the administration is serious about reestablishing US credentials as a defender of people, not just of political expediency.
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Activists in Honduras tell Amnesty International of hidden human rights crisis, Amnesty USA, 4 December 2009.
From the Nobel Women's Initiative web site:
Nobel laureates in solidarity with the people of Honduras