El Encinal Community: “If we don’t take care of ourselves, who will?”

With the start of the health emergency by COVID19, El Encinal decided to organize itself to control the entry and exit of the community and thus avoid contagion. They explains that they took this decision because, even before the pandemic, they received no assistance from the police or military, and now they do not want them to enter their territories

CNTC: “We can’t sit on our hands waiting for agrarian laws to help us”

Peasant organizations warn that “recent laws have followed the line of privatisation and have brought with them displacement and dispossession”. They also recall that the lack of land titles remains a systemic issue that characterises the land recovery processes"

"What PBI can bring is its close connection with really marginalised defenders”

In an interview conducted by PBI, Mary Lawlor, new UN Special Rapporteur for human rights defenders (HRDs), also referred to "criminalization as a tool to silence defenders", as they are forced to face several legal accusations, which means they have less energy to dedicate to their human rights defence work

Another year putting human rights defenders at the centre

During 2019, PBI Honduras held 46 meetings with national authorities, 56 with international authorities and the diplomatic corps, and more than 310 accompaniments, observations and office visits with human rights organizations. In addition, in the seventh year of accompaniment, it contributed to 8 people having the opportunity to travel to the United States and Europe to share the situation in Honduras and its organizations