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• Honduras: LGBT+

  Drastic increase in LGBT killings in Honduras since US-backed 2009 coup

  7 April 2016, by McCORMICK Joseph Patrick

  Since the country’s left-wing leader was ousted in 2009, LGBT people have faced a dramatic increase in the risk of torture, prison and murder.
  The Index on Censorship, produced in the UK, looked at data from NGOs in the Central American country.
  It found that since 2009, when president (…)

• Honduras: LGBT+

  Honduras: IGLHRC Expresses Outrage at Human Rights Abuses After Military Coup

  17 July 2009, by IGLHRC

  IGLHRC
  Press Releases
  07/17/2009
  (New York, July 17, 2009) The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) strongly condemns the recent murder and arbitrary arrests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Honduras. IGLHRC has learned that these (…)

• Honduras: LGBT+

  Honduras: Investigate Murder of Transgender Activist

  12 January 2009, by Human Rights Watch

  (New York) - the Honduran authorities should fully investigate the murder of Cynthia Nicole, a leading Honduras transgender rights defender, and other attacks on the transgender community, Human Rights Watch said today. Nicole’s killing is the latest in a series of violent attacks against (…)