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A public letter addressed to the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Honduras calls for an immediate end to the criminalization of five human rights defenders from the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) and for the full implementation of the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) protecting the territorial rights of the Garifuna people. Amid continued State inaction, OFRANEH has set up an indefinite resistance camp outside Honduras’ Supreme Court of Justice to demand action.

US sanctions targeting those who engage with international accountability mechanisms threaten the independence of the ICC and the rights of victims, human rights defenders, and civil society. ESCR-Net calls for protecting international justice and advancing accountability for Palestine.

The five Ws—Who, What, Where, When and Why—have long guided journalists in making sense of complex events. During ESCR-Net’s Political Education Learning Series on the Political Economy of Violence, I suggested that these same questions, together with How, can also help us understand something far more complex: the political economy of violence. Drawing on the experience of the Philippines, I used this framework to explore violence not as a collection of isolated incidents, but as a political and economic system.