Indigenous Territories

Garífuna leaders in Honduras allege a systematic plan to dispossess their territories and erase their cultural heritage, and say they will take their case to international courts, citing non-compliance with prior Inter-American Court of Human Rights rulings.

A new report on Honduras's territorial conflicts argues they stem from deep inequality in land access and resource control rather than security issues, rooted in unresolved agrarian reform and indigenous land-rights disputes.

Garifuna and indigenous leaders warn that Honduras's new Agroindustrial Law, designed to strengthen property rights and attract investment, risks displacing ancestral communities whose territorial claims and international protections remain unresolved.