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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
Serious issues involving human rights in Honduras through the end of 2013 include unlawful and arbitrary killings by police and others, corruption and institutional weakness of the justice system, and harsh and at times life-threatening prison conditions.
The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is divided into twelve offices. [14] [15]Office of Country Reports and Asylum Affairs – Prepares the State Department's annual reports, including the Country Reports on Human Rights
[12] On Twitter, she declared a state of emergency and announced that firefighters, police, and military forces would intervene. [4] Xiomara Castro, president of Honduras, accused prison security and law enforcement of being complacent and even acquiescing to the rioters, saying on social media that she would "take drastic measures". [2] [14]
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Honduras a score of 23 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Honduras ranked 154th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [12]
Ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, popularly known as JOH, was convicted Friday in federal court in New York on drug trafficking and weapons charges. JOH rose to power after a 2009 ...
On 9 January 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) issued an advisory opinion that parties to the American Convention on Human Rights should grant same-sex couples "accession to all existing domestic legal systems of family registration, including marriage, along with all rights that derive from marriage". [11]
On March 11, 2010, the US Department of State released their annual report on Human Rights, in which they stated "On June 28, the military forcibly removed and sent into exile President Jose Manuel Zelaya, and Congress President Roberto Micheletti Bain became the leader of a de facto regime.