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Contact:(English o Español): Michael Bass (San Francisco) , Victoria Cervantes (Chicago) (312) 259-504, Honduras Solidarity Network: honsolnet@gmail.com More than 30 organizations in the United States belonging to the Honduran Solidarity Network (HSN) are organizing national actions the week of June 28th in commemoration of the June 28, 2009 Honduran coup – its martyrs, and the ongoing peoples’ movements in […]
May 18, 2012
The Observatory on Violence from the Democracy, Peace and Security Institute (IUDPAS), published the 24th edition of their Annual Report 2011, which reached eight uninterrupted years of providing reliable, systematic and heterogeneous data on the behavior of insecurity in Honduras from data collected by different official institutions. This is a comparative analysis of the years […]
March 7, 2012
An independent fact-finding delegation to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, led by Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchú Tum, found that violence against women—including murder, rape and forced disappearances—has reached a crisis point in the region. The Nobel Peace Laureates are calling for concerted and immediate action to protect women—including those women doing frontline […]
February 18, 2012
A La Voz de los de Abajo delegation of 8 people is in Honduras (February 14-22) to accompany the campesino movement and to support the Internacional Encuentro por los Derecho Humanos en Aguan February 17-19. We are traveling with compañeros and compañeras from the National Center for Rural Workers (CNTC) and will be sharing ourexperiences and the stories of […]
February 14, 2012
TEGUCIGALPA (14 February 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya said* today that human rights defenders in Honduras continue to suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment, death threats, attacks, harassment and stigmatization, and called on the Honduran Government to urgently establish a protection programme. “Honduras faces serious challenges in combating violence and […]
December 7, 2011
Journalists in Honduras are facing growing danger, the country’s human rights commissioner has warned. Ramon Custodio was speaking to the Spanish news agency, Efe, a day after a radio host was shot dead. Luz Marina Paz was the 17th media worker to be killed in Honduras over the past couple of years, rights groups say. […]
July 24, 2011
On July 11th 2011, FIDH, APROEV, CIFCA, FIAN International, IUF and Via Campesina International presented at the European Parliament the conclusions and recommendations from the report of the international fact-finding mission to Bajo Aguán valley, which took place from February 26th to March 4th 2011. They denounced the continuation of murders and grave human rights […]
July 12, 2011
By Freddy Cuevas TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—The Honduran government violated human rights by causing the deaths of 20 people in the seven months after the 2009 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, an Organization of American States report said Thursday. Eight of the 20 victims were assassinated and 12 others were killed during street protests, an OAS committee […]
May 18, 2011
Sixto Ramos (45), a member of the campesino cooperative Nueva Suyapa, of the Peasant Movement of Aguán, MCA, was murdered at about eight o’clock on Wednesday, 18 May, shot several times from a passing car, when he was going to his organization. This is one of several murders in recent days. On May 9, Roney Diaz […]
May 16, 2011
Freedom of expression came under attack. Little progress was made in repairing the damage to human rights protection and the rule of law that followed the 2009 coup. Impunity for human rights violations by military and police officers persisted. Human rights defenders were subject to intimidation. Background Porfirio Lobo of the National Party became President […]
May 16, 2011
A brief account of the past and present human rights situation in Honduras by Bertha Oliva, director of COFADEH, and recipient of Premio Tulipán 2010.
May 12, 2011
Years from now when participants on the SOA Watch delegation to Honduras look back on this visit, I´ll wager to bet that the ten of us will most remember one vivid moment: standing on a dusty road bordered by fields of African palm on a steaming hot tropical afternoon. Given all we experienced those nine […]
May 11, 2011
Tegucigalpa – Almost five million Hondurans live below the poverty line, according to a report from the Ministerial Forum for Development in Latin America, published Tuesday. Honduras, with a population of 8.2 million, is one of the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin America, the report states. Most of those people live in completely […]
April 8, 2011
Reports of Beatings, Other Abuses Against Teachers’ Union Protests (Washington, DC) – Honduran authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by police to disperse teachers union demonstrations in Honduras and prosecute anyone found responsible, Human Rights Watch said today. Since mid-March 2011, demonstrations by teachers’ unions […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
June 27, 2012
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