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Feb 23, 201814 min read

Domestic Policy as Foreign Policy: What Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies Mean in Honduras

What Donald Trump’s Immigration Policies, from ICE Raids to MS-13 and from DACA to TPS, mean in Honduras By Ryan Morgan, Honduras...

Jan 26, 20185 min read

The Very Face of Impunity

Honduran security forces target and kill protesters while U.S. sits back On January 22nd, Witness for Peace issued its statement on the...

Dec 19, 20172 min read

At a Barricade in San Pedro Sula

by John Walsh On December 18th, the day after the election authorities of Honduras declared the incumbent president Juan Orlando...

Dec 18, 20173 min read

Open Letter on Honduran Election Results

December 18, 2017 An Open Letter to the US Congress and US State Department: As a US-based human rights, grassroots organizing,...

Sep 6, 201713 min read

Pajuiles Resiste: Dignity, Water, and Life

In La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras, the hometown of the murdered indigenous, feminist, environmentalist leader Berta Cáceres, a slogan...

Aug 16, 20177 min read

Illegal Evictions and Detentions in Pajuiles, Honduras: The US Embassy’s Inadequate Response

[Note from the Honduras IT: This blog post was written on August 14th. At six o’clock this morning, August 15th, a contingent of National...

May 4, 20177 min read

The Complexities of US Security Aid to Honduras: A Response to Sonia Nazario

The Honduras International Team recently had a letter to the editor published in the LA Times in response to a Sonia Nazario op-ed about...

Mar 23, 20176 min read

Honduras Partner Profiles: Dina Meza

Honduras Partner Profiles: Dina Meza This post represents what we hope will be a new and regular feature from the Honduras IT for the WfP...

Feb 15, 20178 min read

Global Witness Report on Honduras Vindicates Berta Cáceres Act.

Global Witness Report on Honduras Vindicates Berta Cáceres Act: We Urge Refining Recommendations for US A new report from the human...

Jan 17, 20172 min read

Eyewitness to Assassination of Berta Cáceres Condemns Failures of Honduran Investigation

by John P. Walsh On January 16th Gustavo Castro, sole eyewitness to the assassination of Berta Cáceres last March in Honduras, held a...

Jan 7, 20172 min read

Take Action to Protect Honduran Workers

In April, Delta Apparel – a US-based company – fired 40 workers with crippling musculoskeletal injuries from their factory in Honduras....

Sep 26, 20163 min read

Padre Guadalupe Presente!

On the approximate anniversary of the disappearance of US-born Jesuit priest James Carney in Honduras, civil society organizations...

May 5, 20164 min read

Berta and Cuba: A History of Solidarity that Highlights Unjust U.S. Policies

“They killed a dreamer, thinking that it would make us stop dreaming. But for Berta, there will be no moment of silence, rather a whole...

Mar 25, 20165 min read

“The Honduran Government Wants to Incriminate Us”

Criminalization of COPINH and Misdirection Plague Investigation into Lenca Leader’s Assassination Family members of Berta Cáceres,...

Mar 3, 20161 min read

Our Deepest Condolences following the Assassination of Indigenous Leader Berta Cáceres Flores

Witness for Peace is devastated by the assassination of Berta Cáceres Flores, the General Coordinator of the National Council of Popular...

Feb 25, 20166 min read

Indigenous Lenca Mobilization Meets Intimidation and Harassment in Rio Blanco

“This is struggle is not just for Rio Blanco, not just for the indigenous,” explained a Lenca woman as she approached her town’s sacred...

Dec 10, 20155 min read

Could the Tomás García murder trial be another case of impunity in Honduras?

An interview with Berta Caceres of COPINH By Bryan Rogers y Gloria Jiménez In July of 2013, Lenca leader, Tomás Garcia, who was unarmed,...

Jul 6, 20151 min read

The Risk of Being a Woman and Human Rights Defender in Honduras

by Keith Roberts In a recent delegation to Honduras, we met a young (27-year-old) feminist activist in Honduras—trained as a...

Feb 17, 20153 min read

“Our conflict is not internal, but imposed”: Lessons from Colombia for U.S. aid to Central America

By Julia Duranti In a January op-ed for the New York Times, Vice President Joe Biden called for $1 billion in aid to Central America to...

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