In July 2010, PBI received a formal petition from the National Human Rights Platform of Honduras, requesting that our organisation establish an international accompaniment and observation project in the country as a result of the lack of guarantees of protection for those persons working to defend human rights.

In response, PBI formed a working group of international observers who carried out a short-term field trip to Honduras in May 2011. The executive summary and recommendations of PBI’s report can be downloaded on this page.

It is PBI’s sincere hope that these observations are helpful in the future monitoring and evaluation of the situation for human rights defenders in Honduras.

We greatly appreciate the willing and generous collaboration of all the organisations, individuals, and communities with whom we had the pleasure of meeting during the mission, and whose experiences, analysis, and hopes were indispensable in the writing of this report.

<media 7876>Read the report</media> (pdf 191kb)