National and international organizations called on the Honduran government to enact it state of humanitarian emergency by the massive influx of migrants to the Central American country.
Honduran civil society organizations signed an official statement asking that the state of humanitarian emergency. The signatories include the Association of Non-Governmental Organizations ASONOG, the Center for Research and Promotion of Human Rights CIPRODEH and the National Forum for Migration in Honduras FONAMIH.
The text explains that they crossed the eastern border of Honduras nearby seven thousand people of different nationalities in an irregular conditionduring the first three months of 2022. They denounce that these migrants are extremely vulnerable.
The organizations stressed that it was necessary to declare a state of emergency in order to activate a response mechanism as soon as possible Institutions of the Honduran state and that actions are coordinated with the support of civil society and international organizations.
“This answer implies Attention to the migrant population (…); Respect for the principles of no harm, the best interests of boys and girls, non-refoulement and access to procedures for asylum seekers, immediate attention to victims of human trafficking and people smuggling, among others,” they explain.
The organizations pointed out that it was a Urgent appeal to the State of Honduras and they exhorted that country’s legislature to push for “immediate reforms” of immigration and alien laws. In this sense, they consider it necessary to relieve migrants who enter the country irregularly from collecting fines of around $220.
They called on the judicial officials to address the complaints of the various organizations and the migrants themselves who are victims of and respond to them without delay illegal extortion, physical and verbal aggression, treated, human traffickingamong other violations of their human rights.
They also called on the State of Honduras to include measures to raise awareness among the population, authorities and institutions in the fight against xenophobia and discrimination in its work programs in the field of migration.
This week a group of 50 Cuban emigrants were arrested in a community in Honduras border with Nicaragua.
The arrest took place at the time they were transmitted irregularly in a truck belonging to two local residents in what Honduran police dubbed “Operation Scorpion” in Danlí Municipality, El Paraíso Department.
The Honduran citizens arrested with the group of Cubans are 30 and 32 years old and could be charged human trafficking.
He was arrested by Honduran authorities in early March two similar operations on 241 Cuban emigrants. The National Police said the first group of 116 migrants were traveling with six nationals. The second group consisted of 125 Cubans and they were traveling with three other Hondurans.
Both operations were organized by police in the municipality of Danlí, a border area with Nicaragua, a country that does not require visas for Cubans and serves as a border crossing point with the United States.
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