Abstract:
D.A. fled Honduras to escape domestic violence. Her ex-partner had become involved with one of the violent street gangs
that terrorize the country. He beat her, raped her, and
threatened to kidnap their six-year-old son and force him to sell
drugs for the gangs.Sexual violence, domestic abuse, and femicide are
widespread in Honduras.3 Police typically do very little to
intervene on behalf of women experiencing domestic abuse, and
street gangs operate with impunity throughout the region.4 Like
so many people in Central America living under the constant
threat of violence with no hope of protection from the authorities,
D.A. decided that the only way she could escape her persecutor
was to leave the region.
