This month Berta Cáceres, a prominent indigenous and environmental activist and co-founder of the NGO Consejo Cívico de Pueblos Indígenas de Honduras (Copinh), was killed in her home town of La Esperanza, Intibucá department. Less than a fortnight later, another Copinh activist was shot dead in Santa Cruz de Yojoa municipality, Cortés department. Both murders and the authorities’ subsequent slowness to investigate have attracted local and international condemnation, serving to again expose high levels of impunity within the country and the parlous situation facing human-rights defenders in particular in Honduras.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1237 words.
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