On 27 May 2011 land reform leader Mr Adelino 'Dinho' Ramos, was killed in the Amazonian state of Rondonia. Three days earlier Mr José Cláudio Ribeiros da Silva and his wife Ms Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva were shot near their home in Pará State.
On 13 July 2020, the Garrison Military Court of Beni-Butembo sentenced a police officer to life imprisonment for the killing of human rights defender Frédéric-Marcus Kambale. The police officer and the State of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were found civilly co-responsible for the killing and are required to pay compensation amounting to $100,000 (€84,484) to the victim's family.
On 26 January 2021, land rights defender Fernando dos Santos Araújo was killed in his house inside the Santa Lúcia Farm, in Pau D’Arco. Fernando dos Santos Araújo was a landless worker in Amazonia region, and one of the survivors of the 2017 Pau D’Arco massacre, which made him a key witness in the criminal case.
On 14 March 2024, Front Line Defenders and a coalition of civil society organisations around the world marked the 10th anniversary of the death in custody of woman human rights defender Cao Shunli at a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland.
Donny Reyes has suffered attacks, intimidation, threats, and beatings by the police. He was forced to leave Honduras and go into hiding a number of times. Between July 2015 and January 2016, his association has reported 36 security incidents and six of its members have been killed.
On 18 September 2015, poet and LGBTI rights defender Ms Gloria Carolina Hernández Vásquez, also known as Génesis Hernández, was kidnapped and brought to the outskirts of Tegucigalpa where she was killed.
On 22 September 2018, two relatives of members of the Movimiento Ríos Vivos Antioquia were assassinated, one in the municipality of Briceño and the other in the municipality of Valdivia. These are the latest incidents in a series of attacks against the movement’s members and their families.
Arcoíris has continued to operate in Honduras in spite of increasingly extreme levels of violence faced by LGTBI rights defenders. From June 2015 to March 2016, six members of Arcoíris were killed in Honduras. Many others have faced intimidation, harassment and physical attacks. Some of its staff have had to leave the country because of the threats they were receiving.
