José Guadalupe Ruelas García
José Guadalupe Ruelas García is the Director of Casa Alianza – Honduras (Housing Alliance – Honduras), working on the rights of children and young people in Honduras. The human rights organisation offers crisis care, attention for victims of sexual exploitation and human trafficking, and assistance for children struggling with drug addictions. The organisation has published research on the impact of government policies upon children.
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.
