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Press Release
Federal Appeals Court in Denver Rules Transgender Woman from Honduras Should Have Been Granted Asylum Based on “Extensive Evidence” of Violence Against Transgender Individuals
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Kelly Gonzalez Aguilar, a transgender woman, should have been granted asylum based on…
March 30, 2022
Report
Countries cracked down on asylum and the right to protest in the Americas in 2019
As millions took to the streets to protest rampant violence, inequality, corruption and impunity, or were forced to flee their…
February 27, 2020
Press Release
New Honduras Agreement Could Be Deadly
Responding to reports of a cooperative agreement between the United States and Honduras, which would potentially force certain asylum-seekers to request asylum…
September 25, 2019
Press Release
Amnesty International to Participate in Hearings and Events at IACHR Sessions
Amnesty International will participate in public hearings on protests and security in Honduras and on limits of access to asylum…
September 20, 2019
Press Release
Trump Administration’s Asylum Ban Could be a Death Sentence for People Seeking Safety
Today, Amnesty International condemned the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration’s asylum ban to temporarily proceed. Charanya Krishnaswami, the…
September 12, 2019
Press Release
Honduras: Arrest of DESA executive must be followed by further action against those behind the killing of Berta Cáceres
president of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA), for his involvement in the killing of environmental human rights defender Berta Cáceres, Erika…
March 5, 2018
Press Release
Honduras: Failure to identify those behind Berta Cáceres’ murder puts other activists at risk
The Honduran authorities’ failure to identify those who ordered the brutal murder of the environmental human rights defender Berta Cáceres…
March 2, 2018
Press Release
Honduras: Government deploys dangerous and illegal tactics to silence population
The Honduran government is deploying dangerous and illegal tactics to silence any dissenting voices in the aftermath of one of…
December 8, 2017
Report
No Safe Place: LGBTI Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans Seeking Asylum in Mexico
The lives and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras…
November 27, 2017
Press Release
Honduras: Historic opportunity to decriminalize abortion
Ahead of a debate in the Honduran congress today over the country’s criminalization of abortion, Amnesty International’s Americas Director Erika…
April 25, 2017
Press Release
Activists’ murders turn Honduras into no-go zone for environmental
The brutal murders of two land rights activists in Honduras last night are the latest tragedies in a seemingly unstoppable…
October 19, 2016
Report
Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on the rise in world’s deadliest countries for environmental activists
An insidious wave of threats, bogus charges, smear campaigns, attacks and killings of environmental and land activists in recent months…
August 30, 2016