§1. Request for information on Honduras’s human rights practices
This section requests that the Secretary of State submit to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, not later than 30 days after the date of the resolution's adoption and pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304(c)), a statement on Honduras’s human rights practices prepared in collaboration with the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the Office of the Legal Adviser. (Section 502B(c) requires the Secretary to transmit human rights reports to Congress for countries proposed to receive security assistance.)
The statement must include (1) all available credible information on alleged violations by the Honduran government, including arbitrary or unlawful arrest, detention, imprisonment, torture, due process violations, enforced disappearances, killings, trafficking, and treatment of non-Honduran citizens removed (deported) to Honduras by the United States; (2) U.S. government steps to promote human rights observance by Honduras, discourage violations, disassociate U.S. security assistance from such practices, and assess deportee treatment prior to removal (including individualized assessments and assurances of legal status or humane treatment); and (3) other information such as assessments of security assistance diversion risks, pre-removal analyses, detention center conditions, compliance with U.S. court return orders, protective actions against detention or torture, safeguards against improper removal, relevant U.S.-Honduras agreements or transactions, data on individuals sent to Honduras in 2025 and 2026, and facilitation of releases or returns for wrongfully deported individuals.