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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.

Following the violent eviction carried out on 6 July 2026, ESCR-Net denounces the excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, and criminalization of the Garífuna community of San Juan, and calls on the Honduran State to comply with its international human rights obligations. 

The announcement by Nayib Bukele to reactivate mining in El Salvador marks a dangerous shift that deepens patterns of environmental harm, dispossession, and violence, raising alarm among communities and environmental defenders. In this context, the agroecological production project of MUFRAS-32 in San Isidro was deliberately attacked and set on fire, destroying infrastructure, crops, and irrigation systems that had sustained community work for decades. Local activists point to this attack as part of a broader pattern of escalating pressure linked to government interests in reopening mining operations in the region.