Honduran authorities must urgently investigate the recent killing of Jose Trejo just five months after his brother, a prominent human rights lawyer, was also murdered ...
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Human rights defenders in the Americas have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of human rights. However, as the clamour for human rights has grown ...
An environmental journalist has received a death threat after publicly condemning the environmental impacts of opencast mining and illegal logging in Honduras.
On 23 October Karla Zelaya, a human rights defender working on land rights issues, was abducted in Tegucigalpa, Honduras and held for three hours. The men who abducted ...
As a result of her human rights work with Honduran group Unified Campesino Movement of Aguán, human rights defender Karla Zelaya has received death threats by text ...
The brazen murder of a Honduran human rights lawyer underscores just why the country's authorities must step up their efforts to protect human rights defenders.
On 5 July, prominent LGBT activist Donny Reyes was pursued by an armed man on a motorbike. He managed to escape, but his life is in danger. The authorities have ...