To mark the recent International Human Rights Day, this December we are celebrating the transformative role and bravery of human rights defenders in Honduras. This newsletter contains information about our integrated accompaniment work with SOMOS CDC, Arcoíris LGTB Association of Honduras, CNTC, MADJ, COPINH and ARCAH.
For the 25th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, we want to highlight the importante work of human rights defenders supported by PBI in Guatemala, Honduras, Kenya and Nicaragua. How did their journey as human rights defenders begin? What does their work mean to them? And which challenges do they face in their work?
This 21 September 2023, we commemorate the International Day of Peace with a newsletter to recognising and paying tribute to the many women defenders in Honduras. We would like to highlight their unwavering courage and dedication in persisting in their work of defending and seeking peace. This newsletter contains information about our work with Arcoíris LGTB Association of Honduras, SOMOS CDC, ASOPODEHU, CNTC, OFRANEH and COFADEH.
Three months after the inauguration of Xiomara Castro as the country’s first female president, this document gathers the challenges and opportunities that the Honduran state, a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council since January 2022, currently has with regards to defenders of land and territory, the LGTBI+ community, women and freedom of expression, among other issues.
In the project “Campaign of political incidence at the international level for the protection of human rights defenders from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras”, presented by PBI Catalunya and financed by the Provincial Deputation of Barcelona (DIBA), the journalists Xavier Sulé and Marta Saiz are publishing a series of articles resulting from extensive conversations with human rights defenders accompanied by PBI
It is difficult to sum up everything that happened in Honduras and in Peace Brigades International (PBI) in 2019. However, the selection of articles published online, and now gathered in this document, gives an accurate idea of the priorities of our work and the philosophy of the PBI Honduras project throughout the year
In preparation of Honduras’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) which take place in May 2020, PBI Honduras has written a report with testimonials which aims to highlight the specific risks and violence faced by women defenders of land, territory and the environment and demonstrate the need for a differentiated response by the Honduran State to protect them.
In this fifth edition of our bulletin, we would like to highlight some of the key human rights initiatives of Honduran social organisations, including the work of the feminist movement in relation to public policy reforms, and strategies developed by organisations, individuals and communities who defend human rights to confront the inappropriate use of the justice system to criminalise social protest and the defence of human rights.
In this fourth edition of the PBI Honduras Newsletter, we pay special tribute to the celebrated women human rights defenders who left us this year. In addition to the killing of Berta Cáceres, which leaves a huge void in Honduran civil society, the country has suffered the loss of historic women human rights defenders such as Gladys Lanza and Magdalena Morales.
Two years have already passed since the arrival of the first PBI team in Honduras and this is the third edition of our annual newsletter. In this edition we have compiled some issues related to human rights that have marked the year 2015.