Category: Human rights

Periodistas, camarógrafos y medios de comunicación esperan la llegada del presidente de México Manuel López Obrador, en Casa de Gobierno en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, el pasado 06 de mayo. Foto CC / Jorge Cabrera.

Honduran journalist protection prosecutor office left unable to investigate murders or achieve justice for victims

4 July, 2022

Journalists in Honduras are vulnerable to violence, and impunity is the norm after any are attacked, threatened, or murdered. The only body in Honduras that investigates violence against journalists is the FEPRODDHH (a special prosecutor office). However, it only has five courts, all in Tegucigalpa and no dedicated investigators or any legal right to investigate murders.

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Berta Cáceres supporters accuse the Atala clan of complicity in her murder

22 June, 2022

David Castillo, the former general manager of energy company DESA, was sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison for being one of the intellectual authors of the murder of indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Cáceres. Her relatives and colleagues are now demanding that the Atala clan face justice.

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The hidden connection between a U.S. steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras

10 November, 2020

An environmental conflict marked by violence is raging in Guapinol, Honduras, where local inhabitants are resisting an iron oxide mine in a national park. This cross-border journalism alliance* has uncovered that Nucor Corporation, the chief steel producer in the United States, was a powerful hidden partner behind the mining project.

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How to Fight for the Environment in Honduras Without Becoming a Martyr

20 September, 2020

By Jennifer Avila/ Contracorriente Illustration by Paola Nirta from a photograph of Juan López / Agenda Propia Photos by Martín Cálix and Fernando Silva /

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A Micronation for Sale in Roatan

3 September, 2020

The Bay Islands of Honduras are a premier tourist destination for Honduran and foreign visitors alike. Its biggest island, Roatan, has also been designated as

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For defending their land and culture, violence struck the Garifuna people

16 August, 2020

The kidnapping of five men in the coastal community of Triunfo de la Cruz (Tela, Atlántida), four of whom were Garifuna, is yet another instance

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More responsibility and more impunity: the Armed Forces and its role in the pandemic

1 August, 2020

Translation by: John Turnure Led by General Tito Livio Moreno, the Armed Forces are the most prominent institution in critical areas of the fight against

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The US Government and Embassy’s Questionable Arguments about the Migrant Caravan

18 October, 2018

Photography by: Claudia Mendoza The exodus of Hondurans is alarming. Since last Friday, more than 2,000 people left from San Pedro Sula in a caravan

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Displaced and Returned to Despair

4 July, 2018

Text: Fernando Silva Photo: Martín Cálix “Esperanza” and her two daughters leave their neighborhood in Tegucigalpa with a small wallet, filled with prescriptions and some

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Only police officer accused of murders in operation with the DEA in Ahuas is acquitted

29 June, 2018

Text by: Jennifer Avila Photography: Hansel Brooks, victim in the Ahuas massacre 2012. By: Martín Cálix Yesterday, a tribunal in La Ceiba absolved the only

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Honduras and the United States should build more humane and less militarized or corporate connections, according to Congressman Keith Ellison

20 November, 2017

After four days of traveling through the northern and central regions of Honduras, the U.S. Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison tells us that he has listened

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Category: Human rights

Honduran journalist protection prosecutor office left unable to investigate murders or achieve justice for victims

Berta Cáceres supporters accuse the Atala clan of complicity in her murder

The hidden connection between a U.S. steel company and the controversial Los Pinares mine in Honduras

How to Fight for the Environment in Honduras Without Becoming a Martyr

A Micronation for Sale in Roatan

For defending their land and culture, violence struck the Garifuna people

More responsibility and more impunity: the Armed Forces and its role in the pandemic

The US Government and Embassy’s Questionable Arguments about the Migrant Caravan

Displaced and Returned to Despair

Only police officer accused of murders in operation with the DEA in Ahuas is acquitted

Honduras and the United States should build more humane and less militarized or corporate connections, according to Congressman Keith Ellison

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