Café Guanasco: Honduras’ most outspoken band
This post comes from the Honduras Memoria Creativa blog. The full blog can be read, in both English and Spanish, here.
“If they thought they...
Honduras: water defenders targeted
The Guapinol Eight have been in detention for close to two years now, a situation denounced as illegal by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. ‘There is no legal basis for having detained the defenders and even less so for continuing to detain them’.
Honduras: Femicide Part 2. Battling machismo culture. Part 2.
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Part 2 of the ABC Nightline documentary on women in Honduras. In this episode we see an adolescent maternity...
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN CENTRAL AMERICA
A photo essay: women denounce violence and demand a real commitment to women's rights.
Freedom has no borders
A moving short photo-video from Francisco Elías Prada and Ángela Rodríguez Torres of LAB partner Ojos Ilegales, Venezuela. The photos convey haunting images of...
The Ghosts of Elections-LAB Newsletter 21 December 2017
20 December 2017
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The ghosts of elections past, present and future
Across the world, polls this year have been confounded as...
How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad
This report by Nasim Chatha for Truthout was first published on July 22 2017. You can read the original here.
The new federal penitentiary in...
Peace Brigades International – UK Section (PBI UK)
PBI sends teams of international volunteers to areas of conflict at the request of local human rights defenders who are threatened because of their legitimate, nonviolent, human rights activities.
Redes sociales: blessing or curse?
Social media outlets, such as Twitter and WhatsApp, played a major role in the protests that spread across the Americas in 2019. In Chile,...
The Popular University of Honduras
Interview with Franco Lagos. In 2015 a group of Honduran researchers and activists founded the Clementina Suárez Popular University. This was the idea of...