Comayagua: A Chronicle of Hell, Women and Hope
A Honduran journalist, Jessica Isla, tells her personal story of the prison fire.
The Prison Crisis in Latin America: Comayagua and elsewhere
Following the disastrous fire in Comayagua Prison, Honduras, Sonja Wolf analyses the disgraceful state of the continent's penitentiaries.
Honduras: Women’s organisations struggle in a failing state
Almost one woman a day is murdered in Honduras, a rate that has increased markedly since the 2009 coup. In this small Central American country of just under eight million, more than 2,000 women have been killed in the past five years.
Women’s Lives and Women’s Struggles
Women's lives and women's struggles. While the daily lives of millions of women in Mexico and Central American continue to be marked by poverty and exploitation.
Honduras: violence against women
Gladys Lanza, from a leading women's movement in Honduras, tells LAB how women in Honduras are fighting back against the escalating rates of violence against women.
Honduras Resistencia Trailer
Official trailer for the upcoming documentary on the ongoing plantation occupations in Honduras' Aguan Valley.
Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
Since the June 2009 military coup in Honduras at least 34 opposition politicians and more than 300 others have been killed or disappeared, 13 journalists have been murdered and state-sponsored repression rules.
Honduras: deaths foretold
Back in 2006, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) had ordered the Honduran government to take urgent measures to improve prison conditions.
Graft, greed, mayhem turn Tegucigalpa into murder capital of world
An unholy alliance of cops, crooks, prisoners and politicians has turned the nation into a shooting gallery.
Trials and Tenacity in Honduran Women’s Struggle for Land Rights
Despite being denied time and again title to the land they farm, a group of women from El Estribo is not giving up.