Honduran priest Padre Melo wins Rafto human rights prize

[Judi Lynn]

Honduran priest Padre Melo wins Rafto human rights prize
24/09 17:48 CET

Norway’s prestigious Rafto Prize for human rights has been awarded to the Honduran priest and radio activist Padre Melo for his defence of freedom of expression in one of the world’s most violent countries.

Organisers said the 57-year-old was a “fearless spokesperson who works tirelessly to investigate and communicate the reasons for the violence and abuse committed against vulnerable groups in society”.

The Rafto Foundation describes itself as a non-profit and non-partisan organisation dedicated to the global promotion of human rights.

It says it “aims to promote the three fundamental human rights of intellectual, political and economic freedom”.

http://www.euronews.com/2015/09/24/honduran-priest-padre-melo-wins-rafto-human-rights-prize/

(Maybe the international recognition might help protect this man from the Honduran right wing, which despises the poor, indigenous, African-Honduran people, and those who care about them. One can only hope.)

[MisterP]

1. Honduran doctors kicked out the Cubans after Mitch because they were seeing people who hadn't seen

doctors in 10-50 years--and that was embarrassingly showing them up

so they had to go

that's how they think

(also they remember a certain troublemaker priest from 1983: he went out the helicopter door)

[Judi Lynn]

2. Father Guadeloupe was just the kind of person they love to destroy.

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Bringing comfort, solace, knowledge to those in desperate need
just might get them feeling they are as good as the parasites
who profit from their misery, who benefit from their lives of hard,
irreplaceable, absolutely essential labor.

Gotta get rid of the peacemakers as soon as possible, according to
the racist, greedy scum of the right-wing, floating at the top of the pond.

Thanks for sharing info. on Honduras' clandestine, U.S. taxpayer-financed,
US CIA clandestinely trained (on U.S. soil) Battalion 3-16, dirty, dirty death squad.[/center]