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Honduras's National Human Rights Ombudsman Blanca Izaguirre called on government agencies to prioritize human security and fulfill obligations to fishing communities, including compensation payments and educational scholarships ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in a 2021 judgment against the Honduran state.

Hugo Maldonado, president of Honduras's human-rights committee CODEH, says violent police evictions of communities established 50 or more years ago are deepening the country's social crisis, urging courts rather than security forces to resolve land disputes.

The national human-rights commissioner called on the Honduran government to provide immediate assistance to victims of internal forced displacement before they are compelled to seek international protection by crossing borders.

The UNHCR representative in Honduras reports that more than 200,000 Hondurans are displaced due to violence, persecution, human-rights violations, and climate change impacts.

Honduras's human-rights ombudsman office handled 17,334 complaints filed by women between 2021 and June 2026, averaging nine per day, according to CONADEH's statistics unit.

The head of CODEH, a Honduran human rights group, said a bill that would expand self-defense law to allow lethal force against home intruders risks being abused and could give citizens a "blank check" to kill in a society already beset by violence and crime.