Honduran human rights activists

Miriam Miranda is a Honduran activist who advocates for the human and environmental rights of the Garífuna people. As the leader of the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH), Miranda has coordinated efforts to counter land theft by big tourism businesses, reclaim ancestral territories formerly belonging to Garífuna communities, stop drug traffickers, promote sustainable environmental practices, and support community leadership development for local youth and women. She has been illegally arrested and beaten by local authorities and kidnapped by drug traffickers.

Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (4 March 1971 – 2 March 2016) (Lenca) was a Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader, and co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world’s largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque.

María Julia Hernández (January 30, 1939 – March 30, 2007) was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador. She was the founding director of Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador.

Elvia Alvarado is a Honduran human rights activist who has been involved in several peasant organizations. She became a social activist through the Catholic Church, and organized women in the city to become nurses to distribute food to malnourished children. Because of her work in land recovery Elvia has been arrested and tortured a few times by police and security forces. Currently she is the head of International Relations of the Union of Rural Workers.

Margarita Murillo (1958 - 27 August 2014) was a Honduran human rights activist. She was an advocate for the environment and an icon of the peasant defense for their lands.

Bertha Oliva Nativí (born c. 1956) is a Honduran human rights campaigner. She is the founder and coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH, by its Spanish initials), a non-governmental organization promoting the rights of relatives of the victims of forced disappearances between 1979 and 1989.

Dina Meza is a journalist, human rights defender, and founder of PEN Honduras, an organisation which supports at-risk journalists.

Lesbia Yaneth Urquía (1967 - July 6, 2016) was a human rights activist from Honduras. She was an advocate for the environment.

Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres (born 24 September 1990) is a social activist from Honduras of Lenca descent. She is the daughter of social leader Berta Cáceres, murdered in 2016. Soon after assuming her mother's role of general coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) in May 2017, Zúñiga Cáceres survived an attempt on her own life.

Hedme Fátima Castro Vargas (born Choluteca, Honduras, 22 November 1959) is a woman human rights defender promoting human, civil and political rights in Honduras. For her work as a human rights defender, she has been subject to repeated attacks.