National Protection System for Defenders and Journalists Continues to Face Major Challenges After 10 Years of Its Promulgation: OHCHR - Digital Process

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TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS. A decade after the enactment of the Protection Act for Human Rights Defenders, Journalists, Social Communicators and Justice Operators, the National Protection System in Honduras continues to face serious structural challenges that put at risk the lives and work of those defending fundamental rights in the country. [...]

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted that the National Protection System for Human Rights Defenders, journalists, communicators and justice operators continues to face major challenges after 10 years of the enactment of its law. The entry National Protection System for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists continues to face major challenges after 10 years of its promulgation: OHCHR was first publishe…