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Weekly Report - 27 August 2026 (WR-26-34)
HONDURAS: Dialogue offer on Garífuna demands rings hollow
Last week members of Honduras’ indigenous Garífuna community rejected a dialogue process announced by the supreme court, while prominent Garifuna leader Miriam Miranda, of Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña (Ofraneh), a grassroots Garífuna organisation, went on to accuse the government led by President Nasry Asfura of a strategy of “dispossession and cultural genocide”. With Honduras one of the world’s most dangerous countries for indigenous land rights defenders, this comes amid concerns regarding indigenous rights under the conservative Asfura government, which took office in January and has approved new controversial legislation protecting the agro-industrial sector which rights groups warn prioritises corporate interests over ancestral rights.
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