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July 31, 2019 Dispatches

US Senate Bill Aims to Kill Access to Asylum for Central Americans

Proposed Secure and Protect Act Attempts to Block Asylum Claims

June 10, 2019 Commentary

What Life is Like When Abortion is Banned

Graffiti promoting legal abortion and women’s rights on a street in central Tegucigalpa, Honduras where public protests and demonstrations often take place. Vivas nos queremos (“We want to live”) is a slogan used in campaigns across Latin America.

June 6, 2019 News Release

Honduras: Abortion Ban’s Dire Consequences

Arrests, Criminal Charges, Health Issues, Bearing Rapist’s Child

June 6, 2019 Witness

Life or Death Choices for Women Living Under Honduras’ Abortion Ban

Women Tell Their Stories

Lorena (a pseudonym) was unaware she was pregnant when she went to a hospital in intense pain two years ago. Doctors suspected she had attempted an abortion and called the police. She was taken from the hospital in handcuffs and is now facing charges.

May 23, 2019 Dispatches

LGBT Hondurans March Against Hate

Activists Call for Gender Identity Law, Equal Marriage, Adoption

January 16, 2019 Commentary

Central American Women Fleeing Domestic Violence Deserve Refugee Status

October 21, 2018 Dispatches

Trump on Asylum Seekers: Hysterical, Shortsighted, Wrong

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June 25, 2018 Dispatches

Why Families Flee Central America to the United States

Gangs Threaten Children, Parents

A Honduran mother and her 3-year-old daughter wait with fellow asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the Brownsville-Matamoros International Bridge after being denied entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near Brownsville, Texas, U.S., June

April 9, 2018 News Release

Honduras: Cybersecurity Bill Threatens Free Speech

Proposed Law Would Gag Government Critics

December 11, 2017 News Release

Honduras: Guarantee Credibility of Elections, Protect Free Expression

Supporters of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, take part during a march over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, December 10, 2017

July 13, 2017 Dispatches

Time to Get Serious about Child Marriage in Latin America

Honduras Leads the Way, Passes Law Making Practice Illegal

April 24, 2017 Dispatches

Honduras Should Give Women More Access to Abortion

Lawmakers Set to Discuss Loosening Notoriously Strict Anti-Abortion Law

October 21, 2016 News Release

Honduras: Investigate Killings of Land Rights Leaders

Regional Body had Ordered Protection for Peasant Leaders

Indigenous people hold posters with a photograph of slain environmental rights activist Berta Caceres while sitting in front of riot policemen during a protest to demand justice in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 17, 2016.

June 2, 2016 News Release

OAS: Save Human Rights Body

Financial Crisis Threatens Basic Protections

A protester holds up a sign next to relatives of some of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa College Raul Isidro Burgos during a march in Mexico City

March 31, 2016 News Release

Mexico: Asylum Elusive for Migrant Children

Major Obstacles for Central American Asylum Seekers

A 12-year-old Salvadoran boy rests as he waits to be deported, at the National Immigration Institute, in Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico on August 19, 2010. ©2010 Jose Cabezas/AFP/Getty Images

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