By Adeline Neau, researcher for Central America at Amnesty International When Honduras president Xiomara Castro was elected on 28 November 2021 on an anti-corruption platform, promising to tackle the country’s disastrous human rights record and sky-high homicide and extortion rates, hopes were running high. She committed to working with affected communities, listening to their needs and taking action. But the sense of optimism didn’t last long. In December 2022, less than a year after taking
Outraged by a long-ignored slaying in Honduras, lawyers are urging a human rights court in Central America to force governments to better protect transgender people in a region where they are targets.