Martín Morales Martínez
Martín Morales Martínez was a Garifuna human rights defender in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras. He was one of the community's member at the Committee and Commission for the Implementation a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in favour of the Garifuna Community of Triunfo de la Cruz. The decision of the Inter-American Court was taken in 2015 and includes, among others, a series of actions regarding the right of garifuna communities to the land. Martin was also a member of the Land Defence Committee of his community.
Human rights defenders suffer extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment as well as judicial harassment, threats and stigmatisation. Journalists, lawyers, prosecutors, those defending the rights of women, children, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community, indigenous and Afro-Honduran communities, and those working on environmental and land rights issues are particularly at risk.
