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Ana Mirian Romero is a Honduran human rights activist who won a Front Line Defenders Award in 2016


Activism

Romero is a human rights activist based in
Santa Elena, La Paz Santa Elena is a municipality in the Honduran department of La Paz. Demographics At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Santa Elena municipality had a population of 12,162. Of these, 92.06% were Indigenous (92.02% Lenca), 7.79% Mestizo, 0 ...
, Honduras. She a member of the Lenca Indigenous Movement a leader of the San Isidro Labrador Indigenous Council. She campaigns against a hydroelectric dam, concerned about its impact on the natural resources. Her advocacy has made her the target death threats and of police violence, including in October 105 when her house was raided. Romero won a Front Line Defenders Award in 2016. Former Irish president
Mary Robinson Mary Therese Winifred Robinson ( ga, Máire Mhic Róibín; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who was the 7th president of Ireland, serving from December 1990 to September 1997, the first woman to hold this office. Prior to her electi ...
gave her the award on the 9th June in Dublin. The trip to Ireland was her first international journey.


Personal life

Romero lives with her husband''HONDURAS Indigenous movement risks lives to save their land''
Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...
 and has five children, including a daughter who was born in 2016.


See also

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Berta Cáceres Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (; 4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won ...
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Human rights in Honduras Serious issues involving human rights in Honduras through the end of 2013 include unlawful and arbitrary killings by police and others, corruption and institutional weakness of the justice system, and harsh and at times life-threatening prison ...
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History of Honduras Honduras was inhabited by many indigenous peoples when the Spanish arrived in the 16th century. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lencas, the central north coast by the Tol, the area east and west of Trujillo by the ...


References

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