Amnesty International submits this document to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee (the Committee) ahead of its review of Honduras’ second periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the Covenant). The submission highlights Amnesty International’s concerns in relation to a number of questions on the Committee’s List of Issues with specific focus on violence against women, right to life, the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (other ill-treatment), sexual and reproductive rights, the right to privacy, freedom of expression and opinion and freedom of assembly and association.
