{{short description|Honduran human rights campaigner (born 1956)}} {{For|the Colombian athlete|Bertha Sánchez}}
{{Infobox person | image = Bertha Oliva (cropped).jpg | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1956}} | caption = Bertha Oliva in 2017 | occupation = Human rights campaigner }}
'''Bertha Oliva Nativí''' (born c. 1956<ref name="Los Angeles Times" />) is a [[Honduras|Honduran]] [[human rights]] campaigner. She is the founder and coordinator of the [[Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras]] (COFADEH, by its Spanish initials), a non-governmental organization promoting the rights of relatives of the victims of [[forced disappearance]]s between 1979 and 1989.
Oliva founded the organization after her husband, Prof. Tomás Nativí, founder of the People’s Revolutionary Union (URP), was taken from his home by State forces in June 1981. She was three months pregnant at the time. Her husband has never been seen since.<ref name="Commission">Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (National Commission on Human Rights). ''Los hechos hablan por sí mismos: Informe preliminar sobre los desaparecidos en Honduras 1980-1993 (The facts speak for themselves: preliminary report on disappearances in Honduras 1980-1993)''. 2a. Edición. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Editorial Guaymuras, 2002. P. 267-8</ref>
==Career== COFADEH is recognized as having played a major role in the dissolution of Honduras' Department of National Investigations, the repeal of compulsory military service, and the liberation of the country's last political prisoners in 1992.<ref name="World News Daily">[http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22977.htm ''Honduras under Siege''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112727/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22977.htm |date=2016-03-04 }}, World News Daily Information Clearing House, 3 July 2009</ref>
Oliva, and her organization COFADEH, have been active partners in the Global Response campaign Honduras:Protect Forests and Environmental Activists.<ref name="Cultural Survival">[https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/honduras/bertha-oliva-cofadeh-nominated-nobel-prize ''Bertha Oliva of COFADEH nominated for Nobel Prize''], [[Cultural Survival]], October 29, 2005</ref>
Oliva opposed the [[2009 Honduran constitutional crisis|2009 military coup]] against President [[Manuel Zelaya]].<ref name="Protection International">[http://protectioninternational.org/video/bertha-oliva-de-nativi-wins-the-2010-tulip-award/ ''Bertha Oliva de Nativí wins the 2010 Tulip Award''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808035329/http://protectioninternational.org/video/bertha-oliva-de-nativi-wins-the-2010-tulip-award/ |date=2014-08-08 }}, [[Protection International]]</ref><ref name="Los Angeles Times">Tracy Wilkinson, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-04-fg-honduras4-story.html ''Tensions mount as Honduras defies OAS''], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 4 July 2009</ref> After elections in late 2013 returned the rightwing National Party to power, Bertha Oliva said: "The police and military are using the cover of the US-led war on drugs in Honduras to eliminate many people, maybe including me: I am on the death list again."<ref name="The Guardian">Nina Lakhani, [https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/jan/07/honduras-dirty-war-clean-energy-palm-oil-biofuels ''Honduras and the dirty war fuelled by the west's drive for clean energy''], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 7 January 2014</ref>
==Awards== Oliva received the Human Rights Award from Honduras' National Commission on Human Rights,<ref name="World News Daily" /> and was nominated along with five other Honduran women as one of the 1000 Peace Women for the [[Nobel Prize]] in 2005.<ref name="Cultural Survival" />
In November 2010, the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] government awarded Oliva the 2010 [[Human Rights Tulip]] award.<ref name="Protection International" />
==See also== * [[Human rights in Honduras]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Bertha Oliva, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bertha-oliva/a-real-truth-commission-f_b_563215.html ''A Real Truth Commission for Honduras''], The World Post, 4 May 2010
==External links== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20091029180249/http://www.cofadeh.org/html/historia/historia_ingles.htm COFADEH]}} {{authority control}}
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