Tegucigalpa.
The Minister of Human Rights of Honduras, Karla Cueva, presented to the president of the country, Juan Orlando Hernandez, his resignation for “health reasons,” reported this Friday Honduran presidential home.
Cueva announced his resignation from the Honduran leader on Nov. 15, 2020, and was confirmed by the Central American country’s presidency in a statement this Friday.
“He Government of the Republic accepts the resignation of the Secretary of State from the office of Human Rights, Karla Cueva, who has been forced to leave office for health reasons, “the presidency said.
The Executive regretted “not being able to continue to count on the valuable cooperation of Ms. Karla Cueva, who played a key role in creating and structuring the institutional framework responsible for coordinating the mandate within the Executive branch to human rights“.
The Honduran president decided to ‘accept’ Cueva’s resignation as minister of Human Rights starting today and I wish you a “speedy recovery”.
He Honduran Government said he will announce “as soon as possible” the person who will replace Cueva in the Secretariat for Human Rights, to “continue to promote actions that reinforce this fundamental issue for the country.”
Born in Copán, in the west HondurasCueva became a lawyer by profession on 5 October 1970.
In January 2018, the Honduran ruler took the oath to Cueva as head of the Secretariat for Human Rights, following the announcement in May 2017 of the decision to become the undersecretary of Human rights and justice a secretary or ministry of government.
Cueva was also deputy minister Human Rights, Justice, Government and Decentralization, as well as Undersecretary of Social Policy of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion.
Since 2003 she has specialized as an independent advisor in children’s rights for national and international organizations such as Unicef, Plan International, Inter-American Children’s Institute of the Organization of American States (OAS), SOS Children’s Villages, World Bank and the Honduras Ministry of Labor and Social Security, including on child labor, commercial sexual exploitation and human trafficking, the right to education and juvenile justice.