Tag: Human Rights

«States of exception, in general, are difficult to sustain»: Uzra Zeya, Under Secretary of State

12 January, 2023

In an exclusive interview for Contracorriente (CC), Undersecretary Uzra Zeya (UZ) spoke about her government’s support to Honduras on issues of education, security, migration and human rights and about the conditions of the United States to support the installation of an International Commission against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (CICIH) to strengthen the anti-corruption efforts in the country.

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Despite the risks, LGBTQIA+ community says it will participate in Honduran civic events

15 September, 2022

As she was leaving the September 15 Independence Day parade, Dulce Pamela Bizarro, a trans woman and member of the LGBTQIA+ contingent, said, “We are so happy to have participated in the parade, even though at first people insulted us and threw things at us. But we are here because we have rights.”

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22. Episode – Traffickers not the key cause of migrant deaths and danger

7 July, 2022

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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 children who harvest your coffee

13 March, 2021

The best, export-quality Honduran coffee is grown at 1,600 meters above sea level, say the local coffee growers in the mountains of Corquín, one of Copán department’s most important coffee-growing areas.

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Vista aérea de parte del grupo de migrantes hondureños ingresando al territorio guatemalteco

The migrant caravan of 2021: thousands flee from the Honduran crisis

22 January, 2021

Approximately 7000 Honduran citizens are travelling through Guatemalan territory in the first migrant caravan of 2021. This exodus, possibly the largest since 2018, comes despite the pandemic and the widespread police and military deployment in Honduras and Guatemala.

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Dilemmas and paradoxes of El Salvador’s Armed Forces

6 September, 2020

What is at stake is not only the future of El Salvador’s Armed Forces, but also of democracy itself, write historians Knut Walter and Otto

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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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For three months, Selvin Quinilla, 34, has been begging near the tollbooth on the highway exit south to Tegucigalpa. Selvin says that he was fired from his job at a maquila shortly after the pandemic hit. He has a young daughter and lives in the Chamelecón area. Charity is the only source of income he has left, he says. That street is full of mothers and children asking for help just like Selvin, appealing to the sympathy of drivers. They say that there is no work to be had, so they have to beg for food. San Pedro Sula, July 9, 2020. Photo by Deiby Yánes.

Hunger caused by the pandemic drives more people onto the streets

5 August, 2020

Photography by Martín Cálix and Deiby Yánes Translation: John Turnure Extreme poverty has always forced people to beg. This has been the story for years,

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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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