Honduras News – Daily News about Honduras

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls for the resignation of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Jose Miguel Insulza. HRF published a 300-page legal report exposing numerous errors in judgment, gross negligence of duty, and willful complicity in the undermining of the Inter-American Democratic Charter by the OAS secretary general. HRF contends that the actions of the OAS escalated the Honduran crisis, when its duty was to resolve it…Read article here.

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Honduran President Porfirio Lobo received a series of recommendations from Amnesty International yesterday. They made the suggestions, hoping the new government would attempt to repair damages done to human rights since the June 28, 2009 ousting of Manual Zelaya.

Recommendations included rejecting amnesty laws for those responsible for crimes, training judges on international human rights legislation, and setting up an effective witness protection program.

“Honduras’ devastating coup d’état has left the country in urgent need of a program of human rights reconstruction, with clear objectives and a time line for completion,” said Kerrie Howard, Americas Deputy Director at Amnesty International.

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The National Congress approved late last night the granting of general amnesty for some of those who may have committed political crimes relating to the events of June 28, 2009.

Lobo Sosa announced this decree to the international community today to display Honduras’ support for peace, unity, reconciliation, and forgiveness.

The amnesty decree passed allegedly allows Zelaya to leave the country and be entertained as a guest of the Dominican Republic.

The amnesty bill, which the previous Congress would not vote on, was introduced by the representative of Santa Barbara, a Nationalist, Mario Alonso Perez. The introduction of the bill immediately generated a long debate, in which members of the new Congress carefully analyzed the issues outlined before adopting it.

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After investigating a potential violation of University contract, Purdue has decided that Nike did not breach its licensing contract with Purdue when Honduran workers failed to receive full severance pay after the factory closed.

In November, members of the Purdue Organization for Labor Equality brought the issue to the University after they learned that two factories in Honduras were in violation of the Purdue Code of Conduct for apparel licensing. The Worker Rights Consortium said the factories, which produced Nike apparel, were closed by subcontractors without warning workers. The workers were owed $2.5 million in severance pay when the factories were shut down. The equipment was liquidated, which provided the workers with a small portion of their money, but they were still owed more than $2.1 million.

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