Lourdes Ramírez, Honduras, is an independent journalist and the director of the radio news program Café Informativo in the north of the country.
She specializes in human rights issues, especially violence against women and vulnerable groups in conflict areas. In 2015, she received the Courage Award from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF), which is awarded to women reporting in situations of risk. She was bestowed the award after she received threats in her country and had to leave temporarily.
In 2011, she was presented with the Froylan Turcios Award by the National Congress for her work on television promoting freedom of the press and expression. She has also received awards for her research in the Northern Triangle on violent deaths of women, part of a collaborative project between the three countries.
Since 2013, she has been a member of ICFJ’s Initiative for Investigative Journalism in the Americas and the Latin American journalism network CONNECTAS.
In 2017, she became the founder director of the digital newspaper En Alta Voz. Her projects have received research grants from Internews, IWMF, CAPIR/IWPR and Thomson Reuters Foundation.
It's not easy being a journalist in Honduras, where you can be captured by hooded men and face political pressure. But for ICIJ member Lourdes Ramirez that's why she became a reporter in the first place.
