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Violence, gangs cast pall over life in Honduras. Edgard Garrido. January 2, 2019 at 4:38 PM. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras ... But the youth kept pressing me with questions about what had brought me to ...
Students Helping Honduras (SHH) started in 2004 when Cosmo and Shin Fujiyama went on a volunteer mission to Honduras, organized by the Campus Christian Community at the University of Mary Washington and aiming to assist victims of poverty and domestic violence. Witnessing the dire circumstances faced by the residents of Siete de Abril ...
In 2021, the United Nations declared that violence against women was “the other pandemic” in Honduras, which has a femicide rate of 6.62 per 100,000—the highest in Latin America. [10] The UN noted that 278 Honduran women were killed in 2020, and the National Autonomous University of Honduras along with the National Observatory of Violence ...
Other human rights problems include violence against detainees; lengthy pretrial detentions and failure to provide due process of law; harassment of journalists; corruption in government; violence against and harassment of women; child prostitution and abuse; trafficking in persons; encroachment on indigenous lands and discrimination against ...
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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -The Honduran government announced curfews on Sunday in two northern cities after 22 people were shot dead overnight in separate attacks amid escalating violence in the country.
ASJ, or la Asociación para una Sociedad Más Justa (which translates to the Association for a More Just Society in English) The Association for a More Just Society (ASJ, or La Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa in Spanish) is a non-governmental organization working on human rights and government transparency in Honduras, where it serves as Transparency International's local chapter.
Miriam Miranda is a Honduran activist who advocates for the human and environmental rights of the Garífuna people. As the leader of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), Miranda has coordinated efforts to counter land theft by big tourism businesses, reclaim ancestral territories formerly belonging to Garífuna communities, stop drug traffickers, promote sustainable ...