said to be responsible in 47 incidents.9 According to another report, between 2008 and 2016, there were 89 recorded killings of trans persons, with Honduras as the country with the highest relative murder rate of trans individuals worldwide, with 10.77 per million inhabitants.10 CEJIL has also said that trans women, in particular, suffer violence doubly, especially when they are perceived as engaging in sex work.”11 It said that the bodies of murdered “trans women or transvestites” in Honduras are often dumped in public places, in full sight of people, and that "the majority of documented assaults and murders were committed with a firearm.12 14. In relation to investigations into cases of violence against LGBT persons, the IACHR has received information indicating that the murders tend to go unpunished, and that such cases are tainted from the start by prejudices based on the sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of the victims.13 According to information received by the IACHR, of 141 violent deaths reported between 2010 and 2014, only 30 cases had been prosecuted.14 The State itself informed the IACHR that in only 4 percent of homicides of LGBT persons between 2009 and 2013 had a final decision had been rendered by the courts. 15 The organization Global Rights and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia published a report in which they concluded that the criminal justice system discriminates against LGBT persons and fails to protect them. Their murders are not investigated and go unsolved, allowing the perpetrators to remain unpunished. The report also highlighted repeated violations against members of the LGBT community committed by members of the police, particularly unlawful detention and misuse of authority.16 15. The IACHR has expressed concern about police abuses against LGBT persons, saying that police involvement “leads others to believe that they can harm persons of non‐normative sexual orientations and gender identities with impunity.”17 It has found that “[n]umerous reports indicate that trans women and trans sex workers are particularly vulnerable to police abuse and are regularly subjected to inhumane treatment by law enforcement when detained.” 18 The IACHR has received information about attempted extrajudicial executions of trans persons by members of the police in Honduras.19 The IACHR has said that the most commonly reported forms of abuse are extortion and the demand for sexual favors; use of excessive force; vicious beatings; the use of firearms to hurt or incapacitate victims; instances in which trans women are forced to strip fully naked in public; and constant hostility and acts of humiliation such as forcible removal of wigs, misgendering, and constant verbal abuse.20 16. According to CEJIL, there is a recurring pattern of arbitrary arrests and assaults committed by the police against trans persons in Honduras.21 Red Lésbica Cattrachas has noted that trans women are easy targets for the Honduran authorities because of their vulnerable socioeconomic situation, and that, according to civil society and international entities, they are "are constant victims of violence at the hands of the police.”22 CEJIL has said that trans persons and transvestites are commonly engage in sex work on the streets because of the difficulty of finding other forms of employment, which, coupled with existing prejudices, “has been a CEJIL, Diagnosis of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity: Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, 2013, p. 120 (in Spanish only). 10 See https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TvT_TMM_TDoV2017_PR_EN.pdf. 11 CEJIL, Diagnosis of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity: Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, 2013, p. 126 (in Spanish only). 12 CEJIL, Diagnosis of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity: Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, 2013, p. 119 (in Spanish only). See also: Annex XX, Red Lésbica Cattrachas, Informe sobre muertes violentas de la comunidad LGTTBI, October 2016, Appended to the petitioners’ brief of April 21, 2017. 13 IACHR, Situation of Human Rights in Honduras, OEA/Ser.L/V/II, December 31, 2015, par. 137. 14 IACHR, Situation of Human Rights in Honduras, OEA/Ser.L/V/II, December 31, 2015, par. 138. 15 IACHR, Violence against LGBTI Persons, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.rev.2, November 12, 2015, par. 447. 16 Global Rights & International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law, Violations of the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Persons in Honduras, 2006. 17 IACHR, Violence against LGBTI Persons, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.rev.2, November 12, 2015. 18 IACHR, Violence against LGBTI Persons, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.rev.2, November 12, 2015, par. 131; IACHR, Press Release, IACHR Expresses Concern about Mob Attacks, Police Abuse and other Forms of Violence against LGTBI Persons, October 24, 2013. 19 IACHR, Violence against LGBTI Persons, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.rev.2, November 12, 2015, par. 116. 20 IACHR, Violence against LGBTI Persons, OAS/Ser.L/V/II.rev.2, November 12, 2015, par. 132. 21 CEJIL, Diagnosis of hate crimes motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity: Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, 2013, p. 124 (in Spanish only). 22 Human Rights Watch, “Not Worth a Penny Human,” Human Rights Abuses against Transgender People in Honduras, 2009, p. 10. 9