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 […]
The recent dismissal of three judges and a magistrate in Honduras, apparently because they spoke out during the political crisis that engulfed the country last year, sends a disturbing message to other jurists in the Central American country, three independent United Nations human rights experts warned today. The experts said the dismissal last month of […]
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 […]