The National Popular Resistance Front of Honduras received the annual International Herbert Anaya Human Rights Award in El Salvador this week. The award was created in honor of Herbert Anaya Sanabria, who was murdered by unidentified gunmen on October 26, 1987, when he was president of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES). […]
Cerveceria Hondurena, a subsidiary of SABMiller, has begun a school named “Azunosa”, in order to provide an education for the children of their sugarcane field workers. Sugarcane supplies the soft drinks division, and the International Labor Organization (ILO) has stated that sugar cane harvesting could be hazardous, and is not suitable for people under 18 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2010 5:24 PM Honduras: Firings Undercut Judicial Independence Supreme Court Should Reinstate Judges Immediately The firing of judges who opposed the 2009 coup is a serious blow to judicial independence in Honduras, Human Rights Watch said today. On May 12, 2010, the Honduran Supreme Court ratified its May 5 vote […]
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 […]
President Porfirio Lobo has declared that Honduras’ truth commission will commence May 4, 2010. President Lobo empahasized the independence of the Commission, whose ultimate goal is to write an “objective and impartial” account of the incidents surrounding the June 28, 2009 political change of power. The Commission coordinator is former Guatemalan Vice President, Eduardo Stein, […]