Consuelo Castillo | Bajo Aguan, Honduras My name is Consuelo Castillo and I have been fighting to defend the land for five years. Our goal is for everyone who is part of the land occupations to have access to land. Land, well, it’s our first mother. For us farmers, we don’t have life without land. […]
PRESS RELEASE The Honduras Supreme Court has upheld the country’s absolute ban on emergency contraception, which would criminalize the sale, distribution, and use of the “morning-after pill” — imposing punishment for offenders equal to that of obtaining or performing an abortion, which in Honduras is completely restricted. “By banning and criminalizing emergency contraception, Honduras is […]
The village of Suyapa, a suburb of Tegucigalpa, Honduras has been alive with national and foreign tourists who began arriving in January for “Feria de la Virgen de Suyapa”. The fair experience involves ‘typical’ meals, rides, and Honduran vendors peddling handmade goods including clothing, shoes, and symbols of the Catholic faith, treasured by local believers. […]
Nobel Prize winners Rigoberta Menchu (1992) and Jody Williams (1997) will arrive in Honduras to boost the investigation on women killing, said the executive director of the Women Rights Center, Gilda Rivera. “They arrive in Honduras on January 25th, on National Women’s Day, the day in which Honduran women won, after many battles, their right […]
In the small Honduran village of Cocobila, a few metres from the Caribbean Sea, there is a small cemetery filled with the graves of young men. Amid the makeshift, worm-holed crucifixes and sun-bleached plastic flowers, Carlos Evans has just been buried. He died four days ago, aged 32, leaving a wife and two small daughters […]