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Same-sex unions are currently not recognized in Honduras.Since 2005, the Constitution of Honduras has explicitly banned same-sex marriage.In January 2022, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to this ban, but a request for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to review whether the ban violates the American Convention on Human Rights is pending.
International human rights organizations have stated that the military Government has targeted LGBT people for harassment, abuse and murder. [5] In June 2013, a transsexual woman was given asylum in Spain after a police officer had tried to assassinate her in Honduras. [27]
On 24 November 2022, the government of Honduras declared a state of emergency regarding gang violence in the country. [6] On 3 December 2022, the government announced that some constitutional rights would be suspended in the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula to crack down on criminal gangs in those two cities, particularly Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang.
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
July 6 – The government of Honduras releases a report stating that the deportation of Honduran migrants from Mexico and the United States increased by 84.4% during the first half of the year. [7] July 24 – Police in Honduras intensify their crackdown on gangs in response to last week's murder of the son of former president Porfirio Lobo ...
Serious issues involving human rights in Honduras through the end of 2013 include unlawful and arbitrary killings by police and others, corruption and institutional weakness of the justice system, and harsh and at times life-threatening prison conditions.
The country's prohibition causes detrimental effects on the human rights of women and girls in Honduras, particularly survivors of rape. Like in its neighbors Nicaragua and El Salvador, abortion is prohibited even in cases of rape, even though United Nations experts have found that denial of abortion can constitute torture in certain cases. [2]
In a 2021 report, Human Rights Watch stated that "Overcrowding, inadequate nutrition, poor sanitation, beatings, intra-gang violence, and detainee killings are endemic in [Honduran] prisons." [ 2 ] Contraband , such as drugs, pistols, machine guns, and grenades, has been discovered in Honduran prisons.