The International Press Institute (IPI) today commemorated International Women’s Day by remembering eight female journalists who were murdered around the world in the past year and calling on authorities to bring their killers to justice. “The tragic deaths of eight of our female colleagues in Honduras, Mexico, Syria, Iraq, the Philippines and Bangladesh in the […]

Honduran journalist Adán Benítez (42) was shot in the head on Monday, 4 July, after two individuals intercepted him and stole his belongings. The journalist and TV producer was killed while he was walking home in La Ceiba, Atléntida department, in the northern part of Honduras. Benítez worked for Radio Makintosh and La Ceiba´s 14 […]

According to media reports, 26-year-old Nery Jeremias Orellana was riding a motorcycle to work in the morning when he was stopped and shot in the head by unidentified assailants. He was found on the road connecting  San Lorenzo village to Candelaria. He died later in a hospital. Orellana headed Radio Joconguera de Candelaria in the […]

Journalist Luz Marina Paz Villalobos was killed yesterday morning in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, according to news reports. Her driver and cousin, Delmer Osmar Canales Gutiérrez, also died when two men on a motorcycle intercepted their car and riddled them with dozens of bullets. Paz Villalobos was the director of the program “Three in the […]