Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what discussions he has had with his Honduran counterpart on the murders of two environmental defenders, Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla, who were shot dead in Honduras on 11 January 2023.

Support for human rights in Honduras is a continuing priority for the British Embassy to Tegucigalpa, and officials regularly call on the Honduran Ministry of Human Rights and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to discuss human rights challenges in Honduras. We urge the Honduran authorities to carry out a full investigation into the murders of Honduran environmental defenders Aly Dominguez and Jairo Bonilla. Officials met Aly Dominguez's brother when he visited London last year to discuss the criminalisation of and the need to protect Human Rights defenders in Honduras.