Bertha Oliva

Bertha Oliva Nativí (born c. 1956

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.

Oliva, and her organization COFADEH, have been active partners in the Global Response campaign Honduras:Protect Forests and Environmental Activists.

Oliva opposed the 2009 military coup against President Manuel Zelaya. 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."

Awards Oliva received the Human Rights Award from Honduras' National Commission on Human Rights, and was nominated along with five other Honduran women as one of the 1000 Peace Women for the Nobel Prize in 2005.

In November 2010, the Dutch government awarded Oliva the 2010 Human Rights Tulip award.