46 176. Along the same lines, the former Special Representative of the United Nations SecretaryGeneral for Human Rights Defenders, Hina Jilani, has on several occasions referred to violence against 232 human rights defenders in Honduras. Likewise the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions has stressed that “The situation of Honduran human rights defenders has been 233 difficult in the last few years, with several activists having received death threats.” In her special report on her mission to Honduras, the Special Rapporteur emphasized that she had received information regarding cases of indigenous activists being murdered at the behest of powerful landowners and businessmen. According to that information to which the Rapporteur had access, “In most of these cases, it was alleged that the perpetrators enjoyed virtual de facto immunity from prosecution because of their 234 social status and political connections.” 177. Furthermore, according to the report of the United Nations Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review regarding Honduras, of January 4, 2011, the States that took part in the 235 dialogue more than once voiced their concern at the situation of human rights defenders in Honduras. At the time, the State delegation expressed “concern about the allegations concerning threats and aggression against […] human rights defenders, and called on them to report such practices to the relevant national bodies with a view to prevention, investigation and the punishment of those found 236 responsible.” That report recommended, inter alia, taking “prompt and effective steps to protect human 237 rights defenders from violent attacks” and to throw light on those acts. . 178. For its part, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights established in its judgment in the López Álvarez v. Honduras case that “there have been complaints of threats and attacks against the life 238 of the defenders of the human rights of the Garífunas.” Likewise, the IACHR has constantly monitored the situation of human rights defenders in Honduras and has received worrying information about the 239 existence of attacks, threats, and harassment against social leaders and human rights defenders. 179. In that context, given that title deeds for ancestral lands of the Triunfo de la Cruz Community were being given away, communal and national Garífuna organizations carried out a series of actions aimed at denouncing the violations of which they were victims and claiming their ancestral lands, 240 as mentioned by the IACHR in this report. In addition, as the IACHR has documented above, since the 1990s there has been a permanent state of conflict triggered by third parties interested in the community 232 United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, Annual Report 2004, Doc E/CN.4/2005/101, paragraph 49 and United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, Report submitted by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, Annual Report 2003, Doc E/CN.4/2004/94. paragraph 76. 233 United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir, Addendum, Mission to Honduras, Document E/CN.4/2003/3/Add.2, June 14, 2002, paragraph 67. 234 United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms. Asma Jahangir, Addendum, Mission to Honduras, Document E/CN.4/2003/3/Add.2, June 14, 2002, paragraph 63. 235 United Nations, Human Rights Council. Universal Periodic Review. Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Honduras. A/HRC/16/10. January 4, 2011. paragraphs 30, 35, 44, 53 and 68. 236 United Nations, Human Rights Council. Universal Periodic Review. Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Honduras. A/HRC/16/10. January 4, 2011. paragraph 20. 237 United Nations, Human Rights Council. Universal Periodic Review. Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Honduras. A/HRC/16/10. January 4, 2011. paragraphs 82.29, 82.30, 82.31, 82.33, 82.67, 82.80, 83.9. 238 I/A Court H.R. Alfredo Lopéz v. Honduras Case. Judgment of February 1st, 2006. Series C No. 141. paragraph 54.3. 239 IACHR. Second Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas. OEA/Ser.L/V/II. Doc. 66. December 31, 2011. paragraph 30; IACHR. Annual Report 2010. Chapter IV. Honduras. paragraphs 448-459. IACHR. Annual Report 2011. Chapter IV. Honduras. paragraphs 373-382. 240 In the petitioner’s: “the lack of land tenure security for the Garífuna communities has created a tense atmosphere, characterized by anxiety and grave threats to the bodily integrity of the community leaders.” The petitioner’s written communication dated January 2nd, 2006, received by the IACHR on January 26, 2006.