“Bearing Witness: Panning for Justice” The NGO Committee on the United Nations International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples seeks to present, promulgate and promote UN activities for the Decade for Indigenous Peoples. Founded in 1991, it is a Special Committee of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO). […]
President Lobo will meet with a UN (United Nations) mission today. The mission is in the country at his request, and is expected to stay until Thursday. The UN mission will be investigating what help Honduras needs in order to combat crime, particularly in the areas of justice, security, and investigation. They will meet with […]
Leaders of Central America from Belize, Panama and the Dominican Republic will join Honduras to make a formal presentation to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon today. The topic is Regional Security, Environment and Climate Change, and the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (Comisión Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala [CCIG]). The President arrived in Guatemala […]
A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Honduran Government to take immediate action to end violence against journalists in the Central American country where, they said, seven media professionals have been killed during the past six weeks, and several others have been threatened. “We urge the Government to take all necessary […]
Honduras’s ambassador to the Organization of the United Nations (UN), is Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake “Lizzy”. She is the daughter of former President Carlos Roberto Flores (1998-2002). She is a journalist and lawyer, and has held management positions in the Liberal Party. Lizzy has served as a Member of the National Congress of Honduras, and […]