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A Garífuna encampment in Tegucigalpa has maintained a protest for over 70 days demanding that Honduras drop criminal charges against five land defenders arrested during a July 6 police eviction in San Juan and comply with four Inter-American Court rulings.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that Honduras has failed to implement protective measures for indigenous Tolupán members of the MADJ (Broad Movement for Justice and Dignity) living in San Francisco Locomapa, Yoro, who remain at risk.

Honduras granted environmental approval for seismic surveying off La Moskitia to Talos Energy and CaribX, but indigenous and Afro-Caribbean organizations say the decision bypassed required consultation with Miskito, Garífuna, Pech, and Tawahka communities about potential environmental and territorial impacts.

Five years after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Honduras to remedy exploitation and unsafe conditions faced by Miskito subsistence divers, the state has only partially implemented remedies, leaving the community vulnerable to ongoing labor abuses by private fishing companies.

Indigenous, Garífuna, and peasant leaders protested at the National Agrarian Institute in Tegucigalpa, demanding a halt to forced evictions under the 2026 Agro-Industrial Law and an end to criminalization of land-rights defenders, while calling for the removal of the INA director.

UN human-rights experts have urged Honduras to immediately stop executing over 1,000 eviction orders against peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-descendant communities issued under a 2026 agroindustrial law that overrides land-reform claims and ancestral land rights.

A criminal court confirmed a three-and-a-half-year sentence against retired military officer Óscar Finlander Armijo Uclés for threats and property damage against a Tolupán family in San Francisco de Locomapa, though more than 35 related complaints filed since 2013 remain without prosecution and over ten people have been killed defending the territory.

More than 40 peasant, Indigenous, and popular organizations filed a citizen-initiated impeachment complaint against 16 lawmakers, including Congress President Tomás Zambrano, over Decree 107-2026, an agro-industrial law they say violates land rights and enables evictions of rural and Indigenous communities.

Honduras's Constitutional Court admitted a legal challenge to a 2026 law that broadly expanded the definition of terrorist association, with critics warning its vague language could criminalize legitimate protest, strikes, and indigenous territorial rights.

Over 70 rural, indigenous, and Garífuna organizations held nationwide road blockades and demonstrations on July 20 demanding the government repeal three decrees that criminalize land claims, broaden the definition of terrorism, and shield agricultural and energy-sector lands from legal challenges including agrarian reform.

Indigenous representatives in La Moskitia say a newly approved agroindustrial law will legitimize illegal occupation of their ancestral territories and accelerate forest destruction, and they are demanding enforcement of a six-year-pending land survey.

Rural, indigenous, and human-rights organizations filed a constitutional challenge seeking to suspend Decree 107-2026, which they say enables land seizures and strips protections from campesino and indigenous communities to shield agribusiness, energy, tourism, and ranching projects.

A civil-society watchdog warns that the Asfura administration is advancing laws that criminalize peasant and indigenous land claims while protecting agribusiness interests, citing passage of a sweeping anti-terrorism statute, an agroindustrial-protection law, and a self-defense expansion tied to property defense.

Indigenous Maya Chortí communities in Copán are filing a nullity action against Minosa's 30-year mining concession extension, arguing the company improperly invoked an automatic administrative approval (afirmativa ficta) without meeting legal requirements or consulting affected populations.

A judge in San Pedro Sula convicted four indigenous leaders of usurpation despite the National Agrarian Institute granting the Lenca community legal title to the disputed land in El Cacao, prompting rights groups to appeal and take the case to international bodies.

Honduras granted a 2013 oil concession covering 35,256 square kilometers of Caribbean waters in La Moskitia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, without consulting the four indigenous peoples living there, violating international law.