On May 10, 2018, a high-level delegation of Honduran security officials led by Security Minister Julian Pacheco was in New York City for meetings with the Giuliani Security and Safety (GSS) consulting firm and the NYPD’s police academy. Both GSS and the NYPD have been retained as consultants on the question of how to lower the catastrophic level of violent crime in Honduras. Rudolph Giuliani and his firm have previously done work with regional governments known to have commit

As we approach the second anniversary of the murder of the renowned indigenous, feminist human rights defender Berta Cáceres, the need for the Berta Cáceres Human Rights in Honduras Act is as great as it has ever been. With the support of US financing and training for police and military forces, the Honduran government has become one of the most repressive in the world, engaged in a murderous crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrators, with state security forces routinely murde

Honduran security forces target and kill protesters while U.S. sits back On January 22nd, Witness for Peace issued its statement on the attack against Martín Fernández and the Movimiento Amplio por la Dignidad y Justicia (MADJ, or the Broad Movement for Dignity and Justice) on the night of January 20th. Since then, the level of violence has escalated further still, both in terms of the widespread and systematic human rights violations committed during in the post-election per

In April, Delta Apparel – a US-based company – fired 40 workers with crippling musculoskeletal injuries from their factory in Honduras. There was outrage, and Delta agreed to reinstate them, but with conditions that violate Honduran labor laws. Please insist that the U.S. government live up to its promise that CAFTA-DR would “strengthen workers’ rights and conditions in the region.” Delta Apparel agreed to settle the conflict with the workers’ union, but only in the presence