IACHR Condemns the Murder of a Trans Woman in Honduras

 August 28, 2012

Washington D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemns the murder of Barbarita, a 21-year-old trans woman, in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

     According to the information received, on August 2, 2012, in a remote area in Colonia San Martín,San Pedro Sula, the body of Barbarita (registered at birth as Marlon Javier Jiménez Alemán), was found with a series of bullet wounds to her face and head. Also, her hands showed signs of being tied behind her back. According to the media, her relatives reported that four persons came to their house the day before, announcing they came as officers from the National Agency of Criminal Investigation (Dirección Nacional de Investigación Criminal), and took her, indicating she was arrested.

     The IACHR reminds the State of its obligation to investigate such acts on its own initiative and to punish those responsible. The Inter-American Commission urges the State to conduct an investigation that takes into account whether this murder was committed because of the gender expression, gender identity or sexual orientation of the victim.

     The Commission continues to receive information on killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and other forms of violence and exclusion against lesbians, gays, and trans, bisexual, and intersex persons. In addition, the Commission notes that very frequently, problems exist in the investigation of those crimes, which involve, in part, failures to open lines of investigation into whether the crime was committed by reason of the victim's gender identity or sexual orientation. The ineffectiveness of the state response fosters high rates of impunity, which in turn lead to the chronic repetition of such crimes, leaving the victims and their families defenseless.

     The IACHR urges the State to take action to prevent and respond to these human rights abuses and to ensure that LGTBI people can effectively enjoy their right to a life free from discrimination and violence, including the adoption of policies and public campaigns and the amendments necessary to bring laws into line with the inter-American instruments on human rights.

     A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this matter. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in a personal capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.

Where's the Outrage: Nobody Seems to Care as America Becomes a Police State

  


“America has been so degraded as a free society that such intrusive violations of our privacy by a police agency or a librarian are now accepted by most people as normal and to be expected.”


People don't care anymore. They think it won't happen to them. For 20+ the U.S. Government has deprived me of some of the most important basic human rights. They have treaded on me so severely it amounts to torture. The U.S. Government is still using deliberate malice because they know no one cares and there is nothing anyone can or will do about it. They'll mess you, too, up deliberately and maliciously right in front of everyone. My case is beyond outrageous and my website has uploaded evidence (http://judiciary.zoomshare.com).  G-d cares! And, He has proved it since 911.

Details From A Human Battering Instrument And A Trafficking Victim In The USA

I was promised an education in the legal industry making extensive wages. As a result, I was profiled as a lesbian and arbitrarily arrested excessively since 1989-1995 (approx 40 times-landing in prison on July 4th, arrested on Martin Luther King Day, arrested 1st business day of 2011, sent to a mental institution on March 1, 2011: my birthday).  When I was wrongfully convicted of "stalking", the status was enhanced to include a "sex offense" after I was sent to prison.  Branded a “sex offender,” I lost custody of my two sons.


All legal activities others are entitled to have become illegal for me. All my business ventures were deliberately destroyed and frustrated and U.S. officials, state and federal judges have left me to languish resulting in loss of liberty, civil rights, productive lifestyles, financial and personal ruin, mental anguish, social condemnation and personal and family embarrassment.


I have appealed to the Federal courts since 1995 and ALL of my cases were dismissed without review. All of the difficult and dedicated work I've done was ignored while federal judges demanded that I complete more work.  Even though Federal judges know I am not the “Betty Crocker” type girl, they have become obsessed with “curative rape” by forcing their disregard on me making me an object of ridicule and scorn in order that I submit to and service their American Men. 


As a result of my legal battles against the U.S. Government, I have become an extremely unfavorable person subjected to and having to suffer severe retaliation and exploitation.  I noticed my $100k rightfully inherited trust fund was wrongfully pilfered/seized after I asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend the powers of the trustee. I also noticed that at least two attempts to entrap me in illegal ponzi schemes occurred while I was suffering brutality at the hands of the Lassen County community in California. I have also lost other real property and vehicles wrongfully seized and confiscated by the states of California and Oregon authorities.


The state and federal courts, in both California and Oregon, deliberately set me up to fail refusing to grant me asylum or protection from persecution and using me as a human battering instrument for others in the community to abuse, physically and emotionally. Those in the community banter me because they just want me to shut up and go away and endure the sexual harassment. 


The U.S. Government endorsed this cruel and unusual punishment by continuing to identify me as a sex offender, allowing me to be defined as someone who has been convicted, at any time, of any sex offense or [who] engaged in sexual misconduct during the course of an offense. They  have continued to recommend that I receive disparate treatment making it their constitutional duty to inculcate cruel and unusual punishment by portraying me to the public that “sexual assault is a heinous crime committed by Offenders with deviant behavior patterns that cannot be controlled by incarceration alone.”


There is now substantiated evidence that I am being been tortured to premeditate my murder using their power of abuse to maliciously disintegrate my health.  Local, state, and federal officials have targeted me by using punks to menace and drive me from city to city, state to state. They have also used individuals to perjure and lie in an effort to cause extreme mental and emotional anguish in an effort to successfully incarcerate me. They have invalidated all of my legal activities others are entitled to by rendering them criminal. Officials have severely crippled my very difficult work (even while bearing children):  
http://appeals4justice.zoomshare.com/files/Resumes.pdf  


They have forced me to live in a state of continued physical torture, mental and emotional abuse, and oppression for over 25 years. The pattern of abuse by officials have always been to intrude on my employment activities to traumatizing me. This has been their assurance to send me to jail. 25 years of the same pattern of abuse. http://judiciary.zoomshare.com.


My case is now pending at the Inter-American Commission for Human Trafficking:
CASE NO.: A149568, CASE NO: 11C96000, Court of Appeals (9th Cir): 11-35438, Circuit Ct. Associated Cases: No: 09-1352; 11-464CR; OR Supreme Ct.: S058661, Ct. of App.: A145734, OR Fed Dist Ct.: 10CV3062, Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Organization Of American States CASE NO.: P-878-09; ICC Communication OTP-CR-886/09


The latest weapons being used by the states of California and Oregon: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/881/818/401/tell-christian-bigots-to-stop-hate-crimes-against-women/