During the COVID-19 pandemic, the security forces used excessive force to implement lockdowns and to police protests. Health workers highlighted the health risks posed by the lack of personal protection equipment (PPE) in hospitals. Honduras remained one of the most lethal countries for human...

On Saturday, 14th September, environmental defender and coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Common and Public Assets (CMDBCPT) Juan López was murdered as he was leaving his work as a community and religious leader in the parish of San Isidro Labrador in the municipality of...

Tell me a little bit about yourself and your activism? Human Rights as a space of hope I grew up in Honduras, where I lived through the coup d’état, which took place in 2009. It was a difficult time where rights were non-existent, and people were constantly afraid. I thought it was something you...

The convictions of those responsible for and complicit in the murder of Honduran human rights defender Berta Cáceres have yet to be confirmed. Amnesty International calls on the Honduran state to ensure that truth and independent and impartial justice for her family and loved ones is guaranteed...

By Graciela Martínez González, campaigner at Amnesty International When Honduras President Xiomara Castro took office in January 2022 with a promise to protect national parks and end open pit mining, members of communities in the municipality of Tocoa who lived in a protected area in the north of...

By Adeline Neau, researcher for Central America at Amnesty International When Honduras president Xiomara Castro was elected on 28 November 2021 on an anti-corruption platform, promising to tackle the country’s disastrous human rights record and sky-high homicide and extortion rates, hopes were...

Today, on 25 July, International Afro-Latina, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day, Amnesty International is highlighting nine defenders and collectives who have devoted their lives to ending inequality and violence, advocating a dignified life for all people. These are just a few examples of...

States in the Americas must address the closure of civic space in the region, end repressive policies and respond to the social demands of the population of the region, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to heads of state attending the 53rd General Assembly of the Organization of...

Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on 15 June 2023. Five months earlier, defenders Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the resistance of Guapinol against an iron ore mine,...

Amnesty International presents this document to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the eve of the adoption of the list of questions in the third periodic report on Honduras regarding application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The document emphasizes Amnesty...

Reacting to the signing of a communiqué by more than 30 countries in Costa Rica today calling for international law including prohibitions and regulations in relation to the development and use of autonomous weapons systems, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “The...

Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the resistance of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) against an iron ore mine, were found dead in the community of Guapinol on 7 January 2023. One month later, six other defenders of the Guapinol river found out that...

In its first year in office, President Xiomara Castro’s government has not been decisive in fulfilling its international human rights obligations. Although it has taken some timely actions that advance its commitments in this area, the Honduran government will have to be more forceful to counteract...