Document #1019673
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
In a 8 October 1996 telephone interview
with the DIRB, the director of the Committee for the Defense of
Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), stated that he did not have any
information on the above-mentioned subject.
Please find attached a Central America
Report article that mentions the May 1994 dismissal of a worker
named Evelyn Canales from the Ace Fashion maquila in the Puerto
Cortés Free Zone (17 June 1994). The article does not
mention any family link between Gumercindo and Evelyn Canales
(ibid.). Country Reports 1994 mentions that an individual named
Cleofes Colindres Canales was killed in 1993 (1995, 451). The
attachment from ICFTU's Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union
Rights 1995 lists of labour conflicts in various regions of
Honduras but makes no mention of an individual named Gumercindo
Canales or his alleged murder or disappearance.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see below the list of
additional sources consulted for this Response to Information
Request.
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Investment Concern."
Committee for the Defense of Human
Rights in Honduras (CODEH), Tegucigalpa. 8 October 1996. Telephone
interview with the director.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1994. 1995. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
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