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HONDURAS
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Title:
El Salvador-Honduras-Nicaragua. General Logistics and Planning Map.
Source:
World Food Programme
Date of Document:
9 November 2009
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras – Salvador. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
5 November 2021
Accessed Date:
17 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
17 December 2015
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Honduras
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
27 July 2016
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Honduras: Background and U.S. Relations
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
27 April 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
BTI 2020 Country Report — Honduras
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Présentation du Honduras
Source:
France. Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
Date of Document:
29 July 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras. The Impact of Violence on the Right to Health for Displaced Persons in the North of Central America and Mexico.
Source:
Regional Group on Risks, Emergencies and Disasters for Latin America and the Caribbean et al.
Date of Document:
June 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras. Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2019.
Source:
United States. Social Security Administration.
Date of Document:
March 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Country Information Note. Honduras: Background Note. Version 1.0.
Source:
United Kingdom. Home Office.
Date of Document:
March 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Date of Document:
15 February 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 April 2022
Accessed Date:
26 April 2022
Title:
Honduras. Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
7 April 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. Chapter IV.A: Human Rights Development in the Region. Annual Report 2020.
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 28
Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. Freedom in the World 2021.
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. World Report 2021: Events of 2020.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Republic of Honduras. Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review. 36th Session of the UPR Working Group.
Date of Document:
3 October 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Chapter V: Follow-up of the recommendations issued by the IACHR on the Human Rights Situation in Honduras
Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras: Information Gathering Mission Report
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
February 2018
Accessed Date:
28 February 2018
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Honduras
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/HND/1
Date of Document:
5 February 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras. Human Rights Defenders Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Fact-Finding Mission Report.
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture; International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on his mission to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
11 April 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Honduras
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
2 April 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders on his visit to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
11 January 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/HND/2
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
3 March 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Summary of Stakeholders' submissions on Honduras
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/36/HND/3
Source:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Date of Document:
25 February 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Honduras. U. S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Title II, Chapter I of the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras, 2013
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 November 2013
Accessed Date:
19 December 2013
Title:
Procedure for obtaining an identity card (tarjeta de identidad) and information that appears on such a card (January 2011-December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 December 2015
Accessed Date:
11 December 2015
Title:
The procedure for obtaining a birth certificate and a death certificate, and the information indicated on those documents
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
29 January 2010
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Title:
Chapter I: Hondurans. Title II: Nationality and Citizenship. Honduras's Constitution of 1982 with Amendments through 2013.
Source:
Honduras; Comparative Constitutions Project
Accessed Date:
17 November 2021
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Honduras
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
April 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Procedures for listing a new parent on a birth certificate, particularly a parent who is neither a biological parent nor an adoptive parent (2019–July 2021)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
30 July 2021
Accessed Date:
25 November 2021
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Crime, Drugs, and Power in Honduras: Searching for Better Measures of State Fragility
Source:
Global Drug Policy Observatory
Date of Document:
20 September 2018
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Re: Supplementary information on Honduras, submitted for consideration by the Human Rights Committee (the “Committee”) during its 120th Session.
Source:
Center for Reproductive Rights
Date of Document:
5 May 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras' Compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Suggested List of Issues Relating to Violence Against Women.
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights
Date of Document:
7 June 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. Left in the Dark: Violence Against Women and LGBTI Persons in Honduras and El Salvador.
Source:
Latin America Working Group
Date of Document:
7 March 2018
Author:
Andrea Fernández Aponte
Accessed Date:
26 November 2021
Title:
Honduras. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2019.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Date of Document:
7 December 2018
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Femicide in Honduras: women dismissed by their own government
Date of Document:
8 August 2020
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Ninth periodic report submitted by Honduras under article 18 of the Convention, due in 2020
Source:
United Nations. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Date of Document:
1 April 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
“Everyday Life is Fear”: Violence Against Children and Youth in Honduras
Source:
Kids in Need of Defense
Date of Document:
26 November 2019
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Life or Death Choices for Women Living Under Honduras' Abortion Ban
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
6 June 2019
Author:
Amy Braunschweiger; Margaret Wurth
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Re: Supplementary information on Honduras, submitted for Consideration by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for 97th Session
Source:
Center for Reproductive Rights
Date of Document:
30 July 2018
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice on its visit to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
8 May 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras: Attack on Reproductive Rights, Marriage Equality
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
23 January 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Declaration of Claudia Herrmannsdorfer Acosta and Regina Fonseca Discua, Experts on Violence Against Women in Honduras
Source:
Kids in Need of Defense
Date of Document:
13 May 2020
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Country of Origin Report: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression in Honduras
Source:
Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration; University of Minnesota Law School. Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.
Date of Document:
July 2020
Author:
Anna Somberg et al.
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Amidst Violence, Hondurans March for Pride
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
9 September 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
“My Life Passed Before My Eyes”: Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in Honduras
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
November 2020
Accessed Date:
27 November 2020
Title:
Honduras: Court Finds State Responsible for Trans Killing
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
2 July 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
IV. Honduras. “Every Day I Live in Fear”: Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and Obstacles to Asylum in the United States.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
7 October 2020
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Honduras: Stakeholder Report for the United Nations Universal Periodic Review
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights
Date of Document:
3 October 2019
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Honduras. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2021, Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
MS13 in the Americas: How the World's Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction
Source:
Insight Crime; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies
Date of Document:
16 February 2018
Author:
Steven Dudley; Héctor Silva Ávalos
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
Title:
Gangs in Honduras
Date of Document:
21 April 2016
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Honduras: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2021.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
1 July 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Extortion Drives Displacement of Victims and Perpetrators Alike in Honduras
Date of Document:
2 August 2018
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Field Notes: Report from Honduras
Date of Document:
June 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras: The Deadliest Country in the World for Environmental Activism
Date of Document:
31 January 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras
Source:
Small Arms Survey
Date of Document:
November 2016
Accessed Date:
21 November 2017
Title:
Honduras Elites and Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
When Corruption Is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras
Source:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date of Document:
30 May 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Firearms Trafficking in Honduras
Source:
InSight Crime; Asociación para una Sociedad Más Justa
Date of Document:
23 August 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras Army Faces Backlash After Continued Prison Violence
Date of Document:
21 June 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Information on the structure and hierarchy of main gangs; gang recruitment of children (2012-November 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 December 2014
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Title:
Honduras Country Security Report
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
13 September 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
Title:
Crime, Violence, and Community-Based Prevention in Honduras. Justice, Security and Development Series.
Date of Document:
June 2015
Author:
Louis-Alexandre Berg; Marlon Carranza
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
Title:
Gang Presence in Tegucigalpa
Date of Document:
26 April 2019
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Gang Presence in San Pedro Sula
Date of Document:
26 April 2019
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
When Corruption Funds the Political System: A Case Study of Honduras
Date of Document:
August 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Los Tercereños (The Third Parties), including activities, areas of operations, key members and relationship with other gangs; state response (2016-August 2019)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 August 2019
Accessed Date:
20 November 2020
Title:
Combatting Impunity: Evaluating the Extent of Cooperation with the Mission to Support the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America et al.
Date of Document:
September 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras Unable to Curb Rising Violence Inside Prisons
Date of Document:
20 August 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
One Party, Many Crimes: The Case of Honduras' National Party
Date of Document:
16 February 2021
Author:
Héctor Silva Ávalos; Victoria Dittmar
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Shadow report from Honduran civil society to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)
Source:
UPR Platform; CAT – UN Committee Against Torture
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
Title:
Protest prohibited: Use of force and arbitrary detentions to suppress dissent in Honduras
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
13 June 2018
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers on his visit to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
2 June 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras' New Criminal Code Will Help Impunity Prosper
Date of Document:
29 June 2020
Author:
Héctor Silva Ávalos
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Update: Legal Research in Honduras
Date of Document:
October 2019
Author:
José Miguel Álvarez et al.
Accessed Date:
26 November 2021
Title:
Honduras Justice System: Evaluating Capacity Building and Judicial Independence
Source:
Washington Office on Latin America; The University Institute For Democracy, Peace and Security
Date of Document:
September 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Procedures for lodging a criminal complaint with the police, including a complaint about police activity or misconduct and how effectively such complaints are processed; procedures to obtain police reports (January 2011-December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
30 November 2015
Accessed Date:
15 December 2015
Title:
Police corruption, police participation in criminal activities and measures taken by the government
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 November 2011
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Title:
Honduras SSR Background Note
Source:
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. International Security Sector Advisory Team.
Date of Document:
28 April 2017
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Whether a person outside the country or a third party can obtain a police report
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 January 2012
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Title:
Arrest warrants, including appearance, signatory, issuance procedures, means and agent of delivery; whether the warrant can be received by a person other than the individual in case they cannot be located (2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
31 January 2014
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Title:
Honduras' Post-Coup Militarization
Source:
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Date of Document:
5 April 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Police Reform in Honduras: The Role of the Special Purge and Transformation Commission
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Honduras. Critics Are Not Criminals: Comparative Study of Criminal Defamation Laws in the Americas.
Source:
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP et al.
Date of Document:
March 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
Title:
Honduras enacts penal code maintaining ‘crimes against honor'
Source:
Committee to Protect Journalists
Date of Document:
26 June 2020
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Another Honduran journalist murdered, second in 2019
Source:
Reporters Without Borders
Date of Document:
3 September 2019
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
Title:
Honduras. International Religious Freedom Report for 2020.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
12 May 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her visit to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
21 July 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples.
Source:
Minority Rights Group International
Date of Document:
June 2019
Accessed Date:
7 November 2019
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons on his mission to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
5 April 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
Title:
A Web of Violence: Crime, corruption and displacement in Honduras
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. et al.
Date of Document:
March 2019
Accessed Date:
17 November 2021
Title:
Fight and Flight: Tackling the Roots of Honduras' Emergency. Latin America Report N°77.
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
25 October 2019
Accessed Date:
4 November 2020
Title:
Removal proceedings pursuant to Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) Sec. 237(a)(1)(A) of an accepted refugee and permanent resident, due to a finding of misrepresenting a material fact in an asylum claim; whether a decision to find someone...
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
23 January 2019
Accessed Date:
13 March 2019
Title:
Circumstances under which victims of domestic violence and gang violence are granted protection; protection offered to claimants who do not meet Refugee Convention grounds, but instead claim a risk to their life or a risk of torture, or cruel and unusual treatment (2016-August 2018)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 October 2018
Accessed Date:
13 March 2019
Title:
Honduras: Seeking durable solutions for people displaced by violence
Source:
International Committee of the Red Cross
Date of Document:
13 January 2021
Accessed Date:
10 November 2021
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 30 November 2021:
Title:
Honduras. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2020.
Additional Info.:
Addendum regarding reproductive rights was added on 4 November 2021
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
30 March 2021
URL:
https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/honduras
Accessed Date:
17 November 2021
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