Full Coverage: Honduras

19.05.2008 Hollywood actor David Harewood, a star of the film Blood Diamond, is supporting CAFOD's new exhibition which reveals the truth behind the glamour of gold through images and accounts from three continents.

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12.03.2008 Most children in rural Honduras stop attending school before they turn 12, but Marta's alliance with a local development organization ensures that her two oldest daughters receive a quality education -- and the family's first high school diplomas.

04.01.2008 'Radio Realidad,' one of many small, rurally-run radio stations springing up throughout Honduras, tackles grassroots issues such as the intrusion of mining companies, economically-driven migration, and the situation of women in rural communities.

24.01.2007 Eleven environmental groups, with millions of members worldwide, are demanding action from the President of Honduras following the alleged murder by state police of two Honduran activists.

21.11.2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA

06.04.2006 A federal judge in Miami has ordered Colonel Juan Lopéz Grijalba, one-time leader of the infamous death squad Battalion 316, to pay $47 million in compensation to torture survivors and relatives of those murdered by the Honduran military in the 1980s.

08.11.2005 U.S. and EU imports of illegal Honduran wood increase poverty, fuel corruption and devastate forests and communities, according to an undercover investigation.

21.10.2005 Two hydroelectric power projects in Honduras have become the first facilities to generate certified emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol.

09.09.2005 Off-duty police in Honduras and Guatemala have been killing suspected members of youth gangs, human rights groups report.

06.08.2005 Entre deux inhalations de colle, il tresse un bracelet. Les fils rouge, bleu et orange attachés à son pantalon dessinent tranquillement des motifs de poissons. Il le tend à Lenin, qui approuve. Je le vois esquisser un sourire dans ma direction, avant de replonger son nez dans sa bouteille de plastique. Puis, il repart dans les rues débraillées de Tegucigalpa. Moi, je reste là, avec un bijou d’une valeur inestimable entre les mains...

29.07.2005 The Chorti indigenous group of western Honduras took over the Copan Ruins Archeological Park in June 6 as a new round of contention with the government materialized.

13.07.2005 A coalition of small-scale farmers and community leaders in Honduras is calling for a 10-year moratorium on logging, to combat what they say is the single biggest threat to the country's environment.

15.11.2004 Thanks to one dedicated teacher--and some help from abroad--the children of Los Pinos, Honduras, are attending school for the first time ever.

08.09.2004 Malgré la création, il y a deux ans, d’une Unité spéciale chargée d’enquêter sur les morts violentes d’enfants, les tueurs d’enfants du Honduras continuent d’échapper à toutes poursuites pour meurtre, a déclaré Amnesty International ce lundi 6 septembre, alors que l’organisation relance sa campagne mondiale appelant le gouvernement du Honduras à mettre fin à l’impunité régnante.

08.09.2004 Despite the creation of the Special Unit for the Investigation of Violent Deaths of Children two years ago, the killers of children in Honduras continue to get away with murder, said Amnesty International, as it relaunched its world-wide campaign calling on the Honduran government to stop impunity.

07.09.2004 Amnesty International has announced that it is relaunching its global campaign to press the Honduran government to take stronger measures to stop the continued killing of street children, nearly 700 of whom have been murdered in the last 18 months.

07.09.2004 In Honduras nearly 700 children have been murdered or illegally executed in the past 18 months, reports Amnesty International.

21.07.2004 Every child’s death – whether in Palestine/Israel or in Honduras - is a crime that leaves us all a little less human, write Bruce Harris and Esteban Castro of Covenant House/Casa Alianza. Yet few people know about the continuing Honduran urban murder of innocents.