All members of the United Nations are subject to the Universal Periodic Review. In the case of Honduras, it will take place for four days and will be submitted to representatives of the UK, Russia and Thailand.

According to Honduran newspaper El Heraldo, Honduras will submit a report where they recognize weaknesses in the process of investigation of certain human rights issues. However, the report also mentions that Porfirio Lobo´s administration –who took office through illegitimate elections according to the movement of resistance against the Coup- has helped to ensure these rights.

Civil society organizations and UN representatives will also submit reports about the attitude of the government in terms of human rights, although with a different perspective than that of the official authorities.

The UN report indicates that most of human rights violations after the Coup d´Etat continue unpunished, and that Lobo didn´t fulfill his promise to create human rights commissions.

Meanwhile, the network International Freedom of Expression Exchange in Latin America and the Caribbean (IFEX-ALC) is demanding an investigation of all the murders of journalists in Honduras.

“It is the country where the most journalists have been killed in 2010 (proportionally, based on the number of people living in the country), and where the investigations of these crimes have yet to produce concrete results”, states the organization, according to EFE. “The state insists on denying the situation and rather links the killings with common and organized crime”, they add.

Recently, several organizations related to journalism and the defense of freedom of speech (among them the World Association of Community Broadcasters) expressed the same concerns to the Inter American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS.

It is expected that after the Universal Periodical Review is conducted, the UN will send its recommendations to Honduras in terms of human rights.

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