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Decision TB7-01837 – Pakistan – Whether the treatment experienced by Ahmadis in Pakistan amounts to persecution, whether state protection is available and whether there is a viable internal flight alternative.
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29 March 2019
HONDURAS
List of Documents
1.
General Information and Maps
Title:
El Salvador-Honduras-Nicaragua. General Logistics and Planning Map.
Source:
World Food Programme
Date of Document:
9 November 2009
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras – Salvador. L'Encyclopédie en ligne.
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. The World Factbook.
Source:
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Date of Document:
15 November 2018
Accessed Date:
27 November 2018
Title:
Honduras. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde.
Source:
L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde
Date of Document:
17 December 2015
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Honduras
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
27 July 2016
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2018.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
13 March 2019
Accessed Date:
19 March 2019
Title:
Honduras. Amnesty International Report 2017/2018: The State of the World's Human Rights.
Source:
Amnesty International
Date of Document:
22 February 2018
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
Title:
Bulletin PBI Honduras
Date of Document:
December 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras. Freedom in the World 2018.
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Honduras. World Report 2018: Events of 2017.
Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date of Document:
January 2018
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
Title:
Honduras: Background and U.S. Relations
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
24 October 2018
Accessed Date:
22 November 2018
Title:
Situation of Human Rights in Honduras
Code:
OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc.42/15
Source:
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Date of Document:
31 December 2015
Accessed Date:
9 March 2016
Keywords:
arbitrary arrest and detention; armed groups; children; disappeared persons; domestic violence; drug trafficking; extralegal executions/killings; freedom of expression; freedom of the press; gangs; gender equality; gender-based violence; government corruption; human rights activists; indigenous groups; institutional efficacy; judicial corruption; judicial efficacy; labour; legal system; legislation; organized crime; penal system; police corruption; police efficacy; police/security forces; political activities; race; sexual minorities; social services; statistics; torture; trafficking in persons
Title:
Honduras: Information Gathering Mission Report
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
February 2018
Accessed Date:
28 February 2018
Title:
National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 5 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 16/21: Honduras
Code:
A/HRC/WG.6/22/HND/1
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
9 February 2015
Accessed Date:
30 November 2015
Keywords:
children; crime; drug trafficking; election; extralegal executions/killings; freedom of assembly; freedom of expression; gender-based violence; human rights activists; institutional efficacy; judicial efficacy; labour; legal system; legislation; penal system; police efficacy; police/security forces; political activities; sexual minorities; social services; torture; witness protection
Title:
Honduras. Human Rights Defenders Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Fact-Finding Mission Report.
Source:
World Organisation Against Torture; International Federation for Human Rights
Date of Document:
December 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on his mission to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
11 April 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
20 March 2018
Accessed Date:
22 November 2018
3.
Identification Documents and Citizenship
Title:
Honduras. U. S. Visa: Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Title II, Chapter I of the Constitution of the Republic of Honduras, 2013
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
18 November 2013
Accessed Date:
19 December 2013
Title:
Procedure for obtaining an identity card (tarjeta de identidad) and information that appears on such a card (January 2011-December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
1 December 2015
Accessed Date:
11 December 2015
Keywords:
identity documents
Title:
The procedure for obtaining a birth certificate and a death certificate, and the information indicated on those documents
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
29 January 2010
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Keywords:
citizenship; identity documents; medical records
Title:
Requirements and procedure for obtaining a Honduran national identity card from other countries, such as Canada
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
25 October 2013
Accessed Date:
19 December 2013
Keywords:
identity documents
Title:
Report on Citizenship Law: Honduras
Source:
European University Institute. European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship.
Date of Document:
April 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
4.
Political Activities and Organizations
Title:
Republic of Honduras. Election for President of 26 November 2017.
Source:
International Foundation for Electoral Systems. Election Guide.
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
Title:
I. Political Transformation. Transformation Index 2018 Country Report: Honduras.
Source:
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Civic Freedom Monitor: Honduras
Source:
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Date of Document:
14 September 2018
Accessed Date:
28 November 2018
Title:
Do the Numbers Lie? Mistrust and Military Lockdown after Honduras' Disputed Poll
Source:
International Crisis Group
Date of Document:
4 December 2017
Author:
Sofía Martínez Fernández
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
5.
Gender, Domestic Violence and Children
Title:
Re: Supplementary information on Honduras, submitted for consideration by the Human Rights Committee (the “Committee”) during its 120th Session.
Source:
Center for Reproductive Rights
Date of Document:
5 May 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras' Compliance with the Convention Against Torture Parallel Report Relating to Violence Against Women
Source:
The Advocates for Human Rights
Date of Document:
1 July 2016
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. Left in the Dark: Violence Against Women and LGBTI Persons in Honduras and El Salvador.
Source:
Latin America Working Group
Date of Document:
7 March 2018
Author:
Andrea Fernández Aponte
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Honduras. Social Institutions and Gender Index 2014.
Source:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Accessed Date:
28 November 2014
Keywords:
children; citizenship; crime; domestic violence; family law; gangs; gender equality; gender-based violence; indigenous groups; labour; legislation; marriage; police efficacy; political activities; sexual violence; social services; trafficking in persons
Title:
The Architecture of Feminicide: The State, Inequalities, and Everyday Gender violence in Honduras
Source:
Latin American Research Review
Date of Document:
16 August 2017
Author:
Cecilia Menjívar; Shannon Drysdale Walsh
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo. Addendum: Mission to Honduras.
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
31 March 2015
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Extreme violence, treacherous journeys and invisible borders
Source:
Norwegian Refugee Council
Date of Document:
December 2016
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras LGBTI: Landscape Analysis of Political, Economic and Social Conditions
Source:
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
Author:
Suyapa Portillo Villeda
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
7.
Criminality and Corruption
Title:
Honduras. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2018, Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
March 2018
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
MS13 in the Americas: How the World's Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction
Source:
Insight Crime; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies
Date of Document:
16 February 2018
Author:
Steven Dudley; Héctor Silva Ávalos
Accessed Date:
22 February 2018
Date of Document:
21 April 2016
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Honduras: Tier 2. Trafficking in Persons Report 2018.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
June 2018
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Extortion Drives Displacement of Victims and Perpetrators Alike in Honduras
Date of Document:
2 August 2018
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Field Notes: Report from Honduras
Date of Document:
June 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras: The Deadliest Country in the World for Environmental Activism
Date of Document:
31 January 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Measuring Illicit Arms Flows: Honduras
Source:
Small Arms Survey
Date of Document:
November 2016
Accessed Date:
21 November 2017
Title:
Honduras Elites and Organized Crime
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
When Corruption Is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras
Source:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Date of Document:
30 May 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Firearms Trafficking in Honduras
Source:
InSight Crime; Asociación para una Sociedad Más Justa
Date of Document:
23 August 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Gangs in Central America
Source:
United States. Congressional Research Service.
Date of Document:
29 August 2016
Author:
Clare Ribando Seelke
Accessed Date:
2 November 2016
Title:
Information on the structure and hierarchy of main gangs; gang recruitment of children (2012-November 2014)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
9 December 2014
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Keywords:
children; corruption; crime; drug trafficking; extralegal executions/killings; gangs; government corruption; judicial corruption; organized crime; penal system; police corruption
Title:
Honduras. 2018 Crime and Safety Report.
Source:
United States. Overseas Security Advisory Council.
Date of Document:
3 April 2018
Accessed Date:
22 November 2018
Title:
Crime, Violence, and Community-Based Prevention in Honduras. Justice, Security and Development Series.
Date of Document:
June 2015
Author:
Louis-Alexandre Berg; Marlon Carranza
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
8.
Military Service - (No items in this section)
9.
Judiciary, Legal and Penal Systems
Title:
Shadow report from Honduran civil society to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), presented in 2016
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
10.
Police and Security Forces
Title:
Procedures for lodging a criminal complaint with the police, including a complaint about police activity or misconduct and how effectively such complaints are processed; procedures to obtain police reports (January 2011-December 2015)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
30 November 2015
Accessed Date:
15 December 2015
Keywords:
legislation; police efficacy; police report
Title:
Police corruption, police participation in criminal activities and measures taken by the government
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
3 November 2011
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Keywords:
abduction; arbitrary arrest and detention; crime; drug trafficking; government corruption; institutional efficacy; judicial efficacy; legislation; organized crime; police corruption; police/security forces
Title:
Honduras SSR Background Note
Source:
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. International Security Sector Advisory Team.
Date of Document:
28 April 2017
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
Title:
Whether a person outside the country or a third party can obtain a police report
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
12 January 2012
Accessed Date:
9 November 2012
Title:
Arrest warrants, including appearance, signatory, issuance procedures, means and agent of delivery; whether the warrant can be received by a person other than the individual in case they cannot be located (2013)
Source:
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Date of Document:
31 January 2014
Accessed Date:
23 December 2014
Keywords:
corruption; country overview; disappeared persons; domestic violence; extralegal executions/killings; femicide; gangs; honour crimes; legal system; legislation; map; penal system; police/security forces; political activities; political organizations; sexual violence; statistics
Title:
Honduras' Post-Coup Militarization
Source:
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Date of Document:
5 April 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
Honduras. Critics Are Not Criminals. Comparative Study of Criminal Defamation Laws in the Americas.
Source:
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP et al.
Date of Document:
March 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. Freedom of the Press 2016.
Accessed Date:
23 November 2016
Title:
Honduras. International Religious Freedom Report for 2017.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
29 May 2018
Accessed Date:
15 November 2018
13.
Nationality, Ethnicity and Race
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on her visit to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
21 July 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
14.
Exit/Entry and Freedom of Movement
Title:
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons on his mission to Honduras
Source:
United Nations. Human Rights Council.
Date of Document:
5 April 2016
Accessed Date:
3 November 2016
Title:
Characterization of Internal Displacement in Honduras
Source:
Inter-Agency Commission for the Protection of Persons Displaced by Violence
Date of Document:
November 2015
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
Title:
North of Central America (NCA) Situation: Overview of internal displacement in Honduras
Source:
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date of Document:
August 2017
Accessed Date:
14 November 2017
15.
Labour, Employment and Unions - (No items in this section)
16.
Other - (No items in this section)
The following changes have been made to the previous package dated 30 November 2018:
Title:
Honduras. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017.
Source:
United States. Department of State.
Date of Document:
20 April 2018
URL:
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm?year=2017&dlid=277341
Accessed Date:
23 April 2018
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