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By way of this public statement COPINH (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras – Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras), wishes to alert the national and international community to the following, in the face of the fresh threat to life, sovereignty, biodiversity, health, water and dignity of the Honduran […]
December 15, 2011
On Monday, December 13th, leaders from the communities of Cristales and Río Negro, part of the Municipality of Trujillo, accompanied by OFRANEH, presented a lawsuit to render null and void various fraudulent contracts for sales of community lands held by Canadian Randy Roy Jorgensen. The majority of these transactions were carried out under pressure, offering […]
May 6, 2011
Thursday afternoon, after the conclusion of a peaceful demonstration against “Honduras: Open For Business” by various organizations of the National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP, police fired tear gas and captured about eight people, including three from the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations, COPINH, when they reached the central park of San Pedro Sula. […]
April 7, 2011
Troops of the Ministry of Security, at the request of the Military Prevention Institute (GPI), are currently carrying out an eviction in the island community of Punta Gorda, Roatan. More than 40 families are being forcibly evicted, living in the area known as Punta Gorda, located in the community of the same name. It is […]
March 29, 2011
Honduras: The Coup d’etat, its inheritors and the criminalization of social protest by Miriam Miranda Yesterday I was captured in a selective way by agents of the Ministry of security in the middle of a protest around the Garífuna community Triunfo de la Cruz. In the process of being arrested they shot several tear-gas bombs […]
February 3, 2011
Reporters Without Borders calls on the National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) to withdraw a draft resolution under which the granting of low-power broadcast frequencies to radio stations would be suspended. “At a time when small radio stations such as Faluma Bimetu and La Voz de Zacate Grande are being hounded, we have every right to suspect […]
January 23, 2011
La Voz de los de Abajo has just begun an 8-day human rights delegation to Honduras, our fourth since the coup d’etat of June 28th, 2009. Our delegation started out with a visit to Triunfo de la Cruz, a Garífuna community that is home to the first Garífuna people’s radio station, which has been under […]
February 21, 2010
Partial listing of human rights violations during the months of January and February 2010.
January 6, 2010
In the early morning hours of Wednesday January 6, the Garifuna community radio Faluma Bimetu (“Sweet Coconut”) based in Triunfo de la Cruz was burnt down by unknown armed individuals who proceeded to loot the station’s radio equipment. This is not the first time the radio has been attacked and its equipment stolen. In 2002 […]
October 7, 2009
Interview with Dr. Luther Castillo and Denunciation from La Voz de los de Abajo This is to make known that on October 7th at 6am three army patrols broke down the doors and stormed the first Garifuna hospital in Honduras, located on the Atlantic Coast. Alexy Lanza of La Voz de los de Abajo interviewed […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
January 18, 2012
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