AMERICA/HONDURAS - Violence continues to affect mainly children and adolescents

Monday, 29 December 2014

Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - Children and young people continue to be the most vulnerable populations groups who suffer violence in Honduras. According to the English charitable NGO Casa Alianza, compared to 2013, an additional 21 violent deaths and murders of children, girls and adolescents were registered in 2014. Between January and November 2014 there were a total of 947 cases.
The organization, involved in the rehabilitation of street children in Latin America, highlighted that the murders have doubled over the last seven years, from 49.3 per month in 1998 to 83.9 in 2014. Casa Alianza has urged the Government to establish a public policy of integral human security and to review the current strategy for the security of citizens. In addition, it has asked the authorities to strengthen police forces in the Country. However, the National Directorate of Criminal Research (DNIC) has declared the dismantling of more than 700 criminal gangs, the seizure of several thousand appliances and 776 dangerous firearms, pistols, revolvers, rifles and machine guns in 2014. In addition, about 1,200 vehicles, 462 kilos of cocaine, 2900 marijuana plantations and more than 5000 pounds of heroin were confiscated. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 29/12/2014)


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