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The SDG16 has been formed as an objective condition of the other objectives. Without reliable and transparent institutions it is impossible to achieve the other objectives. In addition, an environment is created in which companies can lead to human rights violations, so that the Guiding Principles on business and human rights are not met. In this paper, these questions are analyzed in relation to the murder of Berta Cáceres in Honduras. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the main political, economic, and social events that happened in Honduras during 2015. Firstly, we present a brief description of the political situation of the country. Furthermore, we discuss Honduras main socioeconomic indicators and the social turmoil that was prevalent during the past year. Next, we provide an analysis of the 2013 electoral process and its effect on the transformation of the electoral system. At this point we make an assessment of the dimensions of change and continuity in the partisan landscape over the near future. In the third section we carry out an analysis of the Honduran executive branch, emphasizing the main policies enacted by the new government headed by the National Party. Next we discuss the legislative dynamic during this period and the relationship between Congress and the President. We conclude by describing the general state of democracy in this country and the more pressing challenges that it faces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the third wave of democratization in Latin America, presidential breakdowns in the region have occurred in socially opposite contexts. The constitutional mechanisms are different but have offered reduced options for revocation of presidential terms. The last two ruptures of Paraguay and Honduras led to an intense climate of polarization of the internal and external public. Although we know the debates about the legality and the causes, some conditions of such breaks are still to be analyzed. In this article we seek to determine the relationship between international cooperation and public management reforms in the context of presidential rupture in Honduras and Paraguay. The research reviews the sectors, the amounts and dates of international aid in parallel to reforms, in order to defend the thesis that governments after presidential breakdowns tend to use public management reforms through international cooperation to strengthen their own status quo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There were four key issues in Honduras's political conjuncture. First, the persistent violence and criminality that made of Honduras the most violent country in the world. Second, the clash between government and media on the issue of legislative reforms in the telecommunications sector. Third, the increase in social protest, especially of teachers, indigenous groups, and Afro-Honduran peasants, as a reaction to the deepening of neoliberal reforms. And fourth, the general elections, whose disputed results allowed the ruling party to continue in government. However, the election's results show that Honduras is undergoing a profound process of reconfiguration of the political party system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the capital of Honduras--Tegucigatpa--focusing on its "twin cities" of Comayagüela and Tegucigalpa, examining the relationships between topographic and socioeconomic exclusion, structural and symbolic violence, and the application of neoliberal policies. It explores the city post-hurricane Milch and post-coup d'État using historical and ethnographic data to shed Light on Tegucigalpa, the troubled political center of a corporatizing State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article briefly presents the most relevant facts occurred in Honduras in the period from 2005, when the presidential and legislative elections took place, until nowadays. The text basically posits the 2005 as an electoral year where change and continuity have been intertwined and thus pays attention to the doses of such interaction. In particular, the article focuses on the changes in the electoral rules governing the election, which in turn have not visibly affected the political dynamics, neither concerning the agenda of the government nor the context of unified government which ensures the support to this agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]