The Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project has posted on social media:
“‘Violence has affected entire families involved in organizational efforts to defend land and territory, claiming the lives of young people who are carrying on their communities’ struggle,’ warns the report ‘Honduras: A Debt of Blood and Justice – the report we should no longer have to write’, presented today by @aciparticipa [the Association for Participatory Citizenship].
The organization states that “ACI-P will continue to verify data regardless of which government is in power and whatever obstacles they put in our way, because it is our duty as human rights defenders”.
At PBI, we express our concern about the situation of systemic impunity in the country and support the dissemination of this #InformeACIPARTICIPA2025”
The Association for Participatory Citizenship (ACI Participa) was founded in July 2003 to promote respect for human rights, their protection and the investigation of human rights violations in Honduras.
Their website notes: “ACI Participa has a Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders at risk, through which it carries out criminal investigations, documents cases of human rights violations and provides support for the implementation of organizational, physical and psycho-emotional security protocols. Every year, ACI Participa produces an annual report on the situation of human rights defenders in Honduras.”
The Swiss news agency EFE reports: “The murder of 15 human rights defenders in Honduras during 2025, most of them linked to the defense of land and territory, is evidence of the persistence of armed violence that keeps community leaders in a situation of extreme vulnerability, according to a report presented Wednesday in Tegucigalpa. The document, entitled ‘Honduras: blood debt and justice, the report we should no longer write’, was presented by the Association for Participatory Citizenship (ACI PARTICIPA) and warns that the crimes occurred in areas marked by agrarian conflict, land disputes, the presence of criminal structures and armed groups, territorial control and illegal economies. …The report noted that in 2026, violence, criminalization, and the lack of guarantees for those who defend land, territory, the environment, and other human rights persist and even increase.”
Infobae adds: “[ACI PARTICIPA executive director Hedme] Castro pointed out that it is necessary to implement protection measures capable of preventing attacks and ensuring that the population can carry out their activities without fear.”
In their article about the release of this report, Criterio.hn further notes: “Yoni Rivas, spokesman for the Agrarian Platform of the Aguán, told Criterio.hn that, under the mandate of governments of the National Party, made up of extreme right-wing rulers, it is not surprising with the incidence of territorial disputes between companies, extractivist, agro-industrial, energy and local communities that, unfortunately, end in tragedy, with threats, missing persons and murders. in which aggressors and murderers are sheltered and citizens are unprotected.”
We continue to follow this.
