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Nov 16, 20113 min read
Leading Honduran Human Rights Group Rallies Against U.S. Bases
The following is a release from the Comite de Familias de Detenidos y Desaparecidos de Honduras. All credit for translation attributed...
Oct 26, 20113 min read
Exiled: Honduran Human Rights Defenders and Effects of U.S. Policies
By Brooke Denmark Witness for Peace International Team – Nicaragua After a meeting with a rural community in Northern Honduras, we were...
Oct 20, 20113 min read
“We can neither eat bullets nor guns”: the impact of U.S. military aid on Garifuna commu
By Riahl O´Malley and Brooke Denmark Witness for for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Driving into Triunfo de la Cruz, a Garifuna...
Aug 19, 20112 min read
Reports on Violence in Bajo Aguan Fail to Capture Complexity of Conflict
By the Witness for Peace International Team, Nicaragua Early this week, several major news outlets ran stories concerning continued...
Jun 28, 20112 min read
Honduras: Two Years After Military Coup, U.S.-Backed Repression Continues
By Riahl O’Malley International Team Witness for Peace Two years ago today, Manuel Zelaya, then the democratically-elected president of...
Jun 1, 20112 min read
Zelaya is back – but the human rights crisis in Honduras continues
The Organization of American States has readmitted Honduras to the association, two years after the military coup that led to widely...
Apr 14, 20112 min read
Embattled Honduran Radio Station Reaches First Birthday
“The security forces have the power and the weapons. What do we have? Our voices?” Noelia Nuñez, Honduran human rights lawyer Changes to...
Mar 30, 20111 min read
Today: International Day of Action in Solidarity with Honduras
By Brooke Denmark, Christine Goffredo and Riahl O’Malley International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace In Tegucigalpa teachers,...
Mar 22, 20112 min read
The Truth Commission vs. the True Commission: a report from Witness for Peace in Honduras
By Brooke Denmark International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace The official Honduran Truth Commission has finished its investigations...
Mar 19, 20111 min read
Honduran Teacher Killed During Military Repression of Peaceful Protest
By Christine Goffredo International Team – Nicaragua Witness for Peace Yesterday in Honduras’ capital city of Tegucigalpa, members of...
Dec 9, 20102 min read
Open and Shut: a Case of Hypocrisy and the Honduran Coup
By Brooke Denmark, Witness for Peace International Team Leaked State Department cables recently shed light on what was going on behind...
Aug 27, 20101 min read
Support Teachers in Honduras
Teachers’ strikes are not something new in Honduras. As lawyer Nectalí Rodezno noted, teachers’ strikes are a nearly annual occurrence...
Jun 28, 20101 min read
A year after the coup in Honduras
One year ago today, this is the situation that the citizens of Honduras were dealt when soldiers forced President Manuel Zelaya from the...
Mar 7, 20105 min read
“Don’t Close Your Eyes”: Honduran Journalist César Silva Speaks Out
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team César Omar Silva Rosales – a journalist, filmmaker and member of the Honduran...
Jan 28, 20104 min read
Whitewashing the Coup
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo, winner of Honduras’ controversial November 29, 2009...
Nov 29, 20092 min read
Empty Streets on Election Day
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Tegucigalpa woke on ‘election’ day to eerily quiet streets. The few taxis working...
Nov 28, 20093 min read
Tragedy and “Tranquility” Reveal Dual Realities in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team On the eve of Honduras’ “elections,” Angel Sagrado lays in critical condition in a...
Nov 27, 20093 min read
Will Election Observers Understand the Context of the “Elections”?
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team “The three emotions you will see most prevalently this weekend are fear, uncertainty...
Nov 26, 20092 min read
The Pre-Election Environment in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Young girl lights a candle at a vigil for the International Day Against Violence...
Nov 9, 20092 min read
U.S. Hands Victory to the Coup Regime in Honduras
by Galen Cohee Baynes, Nicaragua International Team Last Friday Manuel Zelaya declared from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy in...
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