Press releases from Honduras

In 2022, we registered 768 attacks against women defenders and organizations that defend the right to a life free from violence in Mesoamerica

To mark November 25, we offer information regarding the violence faced by women who defend women’s right to a life free from violence.
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Mesoamerican Registry of Attacks against Women Defenders: 2022 — Preliminary data

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HONDURAS / International Forum calls for immediate release and reparations for defenders of the Guapinol River

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Unraveling the crisis - weaving futures

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[PRESS RELEASE] There is no gender equality without protection for women defenders.

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[URGENT ALERT] HONDURAS / Arrested Garifuna rights defenders will have hearing this Sunday, March 7th: The international community demands their release.

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[Urgent Alert] MESOAMERICA / Stop the violence and hate speech against migrants! Regional governments must guarantee safe, humanitarian passage to the Migrant Caravan.

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[STATEMENT] National, regional, and international human rights and feminist organizations call for solidarity with our allies from the Uganda Women's Network, "UWONET," and the Uganda National NGO Forum makes an urgent call to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing their work.

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[Urgent Alert] HONDURAS / Murder of young Garifuna defender Laura Carolina Valentín Dolmo, OFRANEH member

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[Urgent Alert] MESOAMERICA / Regional governments send military troops and special forces to head off and disband the migrant caravan that left Honduras on September 30.

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[Urgent Alert] HONDURAS / Berta Cáceres’ daughters and son expelled from trial held behind closed doors

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Sobre el aumento de la represión en las comunidades lencas y garífunas y el papel de la UE y España

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Press Release: “Their Lives are Our Lives”

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[CAMPAIGN] “Their Lives are Our Lives”

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The crisis was already here: Mesoamerican WHRDs and COVID-19

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Marcala speaks out against extractivism and declares the town free of mining and power plants

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Informational newsletter, January 31, 2020: Honduran Network develops Seminar for Analysis of National Situation

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Human rights organizations recognize OHCHR’s work in Honduras

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Miriam Miranda: “Our people face an extermination plan”

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UGANDA / Brutal attack against Mollie Siperia, student leader at Makerere University

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Concerns raised over Esraa Abdel Fattah’s state of health during prison hunger strike

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Stop the extermination of WHRDs and leaders in Colombia!

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Stop militarization and the repression of social protests in Chile!

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Stop the abduction and human right violations of Women Defenders in Egypt

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Attack against COPINH Intibucá members demanding #JusticeForBerta outside the courthouse where David Castillo is on trial

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[STATEMENT] ¡Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders say NO to the attack against the Kurdish community!

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PARAGUAY / ANTI-RIGHTS GROUPS ATTACK MARCH HELD BY #LGBTI COLLECTIVES

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HONDURAS / We celebrate the award of the LETELIER-MOFFITT PRIZE to the Municipal Committee for the Defense of Common Public Assets in Tocoa Colón.

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SOLIDARITY WITH FEMINISTS CRIMINALIZED for Anarchist Sisterhood’s Sacred Defiant Cunt and Burial of Socio-Labour Rights Procession in Spanish State

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[CALL TO ACTION] #DefendamosVallecito: Solidarity and engagement with the Garífuna community of Vallecito and OFRANEH

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We congratulate the FAU on its tenth anniversary

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Harassment of COPINH: Maize crops destroyed in Rio Blanco community

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National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: “More women in Santa Barbara Environmental Movement (MAS)”

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / OFRANEH members in high-risk situation due to harassment, intimidation and repeated attacks

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Military police invade UNAH and use firearms to repress students – Several reported wounded

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[INFOGRAPHIC] HONDURAS: Ten years after the Coup d'Etat

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#WHRDAlert COLOMBIA / Assailants kill María del Pilar Hurtado, defender of the right to decent housing

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Government represses demonstrators: At least two dead and dozens wounded, mainly by firearms

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Stop the criminalization of WHRDs working with migrant people!

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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF COLOMBIAN DEFENDER FRANCIA MÁRQUEZ, GOLDMAN PRIZE WINNER 2018

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Stand in solidaity with Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa, Ugandan #WHRD

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Defending Guapinol to live well

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NASRIN SOTOUDEH: We demand her release!

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GOOD NEWS! Freedom and definitive acquittal for Lourdes Gómez and all other defenders of common assets in Guapinol

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INFOGRAPHICS / Berta Cáceres: chronology of a political feminicide

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / PREVENTIVE DETENTION DECREED FOR LOURDES GÓMEZ AND 11 DEFENDERS OF THE RIGHT TO WATER IN GUAPINOL

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We lament the death of WHRD Caroline Mwatha in Kenya, caused by structural violence against women

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#UrgentAlert HONDURAS / Stop the criminalization of persons, organizations and movements in defense of the water of Tocoa and Guapinol

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Manifesto of the Annual Assembly of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras

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"Tengo la palabra" (We have the voice): Resistance in Honduras

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Outset of International Feminist Solidarity Mission with Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: “The Embrace.”

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National Women Defender Network demands feminist justice for Berta Cáceres through political, artistic and cultural events and actions

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In Honduras, defenders begin process of diagnosing needs to strengthen IM-Defensoras national networks

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IM-Defensoras participates in high-level events in New York on 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders

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FREE THE DEFENDERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA!

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Defend in order to Live: 2016-2017 report on the situation of women defenders in Honduras

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#WHRDAlert SYSTEMATIC THREATS AGAINST WOMEN DEFENDERS OF THE SANTA BARBARA ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT (MAS)

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VIDEO / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL

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Philippines government criminalizes UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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#WHRDAlert BRAZIL / Assailants kill Marielle Franco, feminist and defender of the rights of Afrodescendant peoples

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#WHRDAlertHONDURAS / Stop the repression associated with the National Strike against electoral fraude

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IM-DEFENSORAS STATEMENT RESTABLISHMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES IN HONDURAS NOW! IMMEDIATE END TO REPRESSION! DEMOCRACY AND RESPECT FOR VOTE!

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16 Days Campaign 2017 / IM-Defensoras calls for holistic feminist protection as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign

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PRESS RELEASE / More than 180 international organizations denounce surge in repression against women human rights defenders in Honduras

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IM-Defensoras at the Dublin Platform

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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people

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CALL TO ACTION IN SUPPORT OF HONDURAN WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

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HONDURAS / NEW ATTEMPT AGAINST SAFETY OF MIRTHA GUTIÉRREZ

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HONDURAS / ALERT: Prosecution of Cristian Marisol Hernandez Pineda and four other members of Boulevard Neighbors

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We thank organizations that made possible "Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land..."

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We congratulate the Center for Women's Rights (CDM) of Honduras on its 25th anniversary

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Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land, Territory and Environment

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Declaration of organizations participating in the Latin American Gathering of Defenders and Authorities of the Original Peoples and Territories of Latin America

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Women defender networks meet at UN for first time to denounce violence and discrimination against women activists throughout the world

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NEWS / NETWORKS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE PLANET GO TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES ABOUT PROTECTION WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

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CALL TO ACTION / APRIL 25 - TWITTER STORM FOR THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN HONDURAS

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SISTERHOOD / #WHRDAlert COLOMBIA: At least six women defenders have been killed in the last four months

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Berta didn’t die, she multiplied...

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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group

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CALL TO ACTION / GLOBAL TWEET BOMB #JusticeForBerta (March 2nd)

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CALL TO ACTION / The National Network of Human Rights Defenders in Honduras calls for mobilization in front of the Honduras embassies this March 2 to demand #JusticeForBerta

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“Berta lives on, COPINH is strong” - COPINH calls for month of actions

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NEWS/ National defender network in Honduras launches campaign: Defending to Live and Live Well

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NEWS / "La Rojita" is 3 years old!

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NEWS / National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras presents the book Marta, la de la López: The way I learned and unlearned

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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action

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Invitation to virtual dialogue “Self-Care, a Political Strategy in Defense of Human Rights”

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HONDURAS / Support from IM-Defensoras for International Experts Advisory Group (GAIPE)

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IM-Defensoras In the Campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women 2016

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International seminar held in Spanish State: Weaving Webs for the Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders

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OPEN LETTER / IM-Defensoras express our absolute repudiation of the reported robbery of the original case files on the murder of Berta Cáceres

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STATEMENT / IM-Defensoras laments the death of Gladys Lanza, long-time feminist and WHRD in Honduras

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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION

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NEWS / IM-Defensoras at AWID FORUM 2016, Brasil

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NEWS / After #SixMonthsWithoutJustice, IM-Defensoras continues to demand #JusticeForBerta

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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder

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NEWS / IM-DEFENSORAS and national groups tell UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about attacks and impunity faced by women defenders in Mesoamerica

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IM-Defensoras at Regional Dialogue‬ on "An Interchange of Good Practices: New challenges for the erradication of violence agaist women”

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UN Women and IM-Defensoras publish Spanish language edition of UN General Assembly Resolution on Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and Individual Women’s Rights Defenders

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Berta Zúñiga Caceres and Rosalina Dominguez, of COPINH, require #JusticeForBerta in the Spanish State

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Statement of the National Network of Women Human Rights Defenders in Honduras: Two months after our comrade defender Berta Cáceres was killed

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CALL TO ACTION / #JusticeForBerta at #CSW60

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CALL TO ACTION #8March: #Justice For Berta

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012-2014 REPORT

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PAVING THE ROAD FOR FREEDOM & EQUALITY

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012 ASSESSMENT REPORT - SUMMARY FINDINGS

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