“The organisations Article 19 Mexico and Central America, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Free Press Unlimited, PEN International, PEN Honduras, Reporters Without Borders and ASOPODEHU (Association for Democracy and Human Rights in Honduras) sent a report to the UN UPR Working Group to draw attention to laws restricting freedom of expression and press freedom in Honduras; murders and attacks against journalists and community and indigenous media; threats to academic freedom and the limitation of equal participation of women journalists and authors in the media and publishing houses in their country, as well as violence against women journalists and historically marginalised communities.
The report says Honduras has one of the most complex and unstable human rights contexts in Latin America and requires the immediate attention of the international community. Conditions for the exercise of freedom of expression and press freedom have deteriorated with the current political polarization, impunity rates continue to rise and, given the imposition of an extended state of emergency in Honduras, the landscape ahead of the general elections is worrying.”
