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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 […]
August 10, 2011
Tegucigalpa, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) Honduras and Canada will sign a free trade treaty on Friday that will open up both countries’ markets to traditional and non-traditional exports and boost investment. The treaty will be signed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, according to a government press release. The treaty […]
June 2, 2011
Honduran teachers who have been on a hunger strike for 28 days publicly asked former president Manuel Zelaya to intercede on their behalf for the reinstatement of some 300 suspended teachers. The five teachers fasting in La Merced Square hope to meet with Zelaya, who returned to the country on Saturday, 23 months after a […]
May 10, 2011
Various teachers suspended from their jobs for one, two and six months began a voluntary fast for 24 hours on May 4 and have now declared themselves to be on an indefinite hunger strike and in a state of calamity. The educators who began the fast on Wednesday (May 4) outside of the National Congress […]
May 2, 2011
Thousands of Hondurans took to the streets on May Day to demand an end to political persecution, respect for human rights, the repeal of hour labor and the safe return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales and creation of a National Constituent Assembly, among other points. The streets were flooded with people belonging to unions, employers’ […]
April 13, 2011
Workers, students and activists have held a month-long general strike in Honduras to protest repression by the government of President Porfirio Lobo. Lobo came to power following elections under the regime of Roberto Micheletti, who seized power in a violent military coup against democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009. Honduras is one of […]
April 12, 2011
Honduran Unions Denounce the Lobo Administration’s Assault on Labor The United Federation of Honduran Workers (FUTH) has denounced what it is calling the targeted extermination of unions, led by the Lobo Administration. The denunciation comes on the tails of antiunion sentiment in the form of an increased number of threats, attempted murders, violations of collective […]
April 1, 2011
By Karen Spring (Rights Action, Tegucigalpa) Today, a National Strike was called in Honduras by the public school teachers and the National Front of Popular Resistance to protest the last two weeks of brutal and fierce repression, the eighteen political prisoners on trial and the attempt of the post-coup regime and international financial institutions to […]
June 21, 2010
LA CEIBA – The son of Mauro Gonzalez, president of the National Trade Union Federation of Honduras (FESITRANH), died of bullet wounds yesterday afternoon in a car wash located on the El Toronjal neighborhood. Mauricio Nahum Gonzalez Coello, 21, who was an employee of a cellular company in La Ceiba, was attacked while waiting for […]
May 26, 2010
The Committee of the Families of the Disappeared Detainees in Honduras, COFADEH, urgently alert the national and international community of the serious events which occurred this afternoon against the Union of Workers in the Beverage Industry (STYBS). 1. COFADEH received the report of this at 4:30 pm, Tuesday, May 25, 2010: armed men dressed in […]
March 25, 2010
During a court hearing with the Criminal Justice Section of Tegucigalpa, judge Melvin Bonilla issued precautionary measures against 10 of the 16 members of the Workers Union of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (Sitraunah), accused by the prosecution of sedition, coercion, and usurpation. Bonilla also issued house arrests against 5 people for being over […]
February 21, 2010
Partial listing of human rights violations during the months of January and February 2010.
February 15, 2010
Julio Fúnez Benítez, union worker, SANAA, assassinated
February 11, 2010
On Thursday, February 11, at 4:40 pm, unidentified men entered by force Porfirio Ponce´s home, in Tegucigalpa, minutes after his wife and three children had left their residence. His neighbors alerted the police when they saw that his doors and balcony were forced open. It took the police 30 minutes to show up, even though […]
Honduras: Human Rights 
February 18, 2012
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