A 34-year-old Honduran indigenous woman denounced her country before the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva. In the Latin American nation there is a total ban on abortion, even if the pregnancy is the result of sexual violence.
Until recently, the emergency contraceptive pill was also prohibited. According to the Violence Observatory of the National Autonomous University of Honduras, the country is the "most dangerous" in Latin America for women, with 380 feminicides in 2023, compared to 308 in 2022. The Center reports this in a statement for Reproductive Rights and four other Honduran NGOs. The statement says that the woman became pregnant following a rape committed in retaliation for having defended her land. It also says that she was raped by a group of men who wanted to kill her because she was an indigenous woman and a woman of color. The group says this is not the first time this has happened; it has happened several times in the past, including in the 1990s and 2000s.