For more than 30 years, Gladys Lanza has run an organization dedicated to ending violence against women in Honduras. She says domestic violence is as much a cultural problem as a policy issue.

Domestic violence was the leading reported crime in Honduras, according to a March 2015 report by the United Nations' special rapporteur on violence against women.

In addition, domestic violence affects 1 million and 800 thousand children, and poverty makes them the main victims of organized crime that exploits them as carriers of weapons and extortionists.

NCR Editorial: The boogeyman of communism that haunted Central America in the 1980s is gone, but the institutions and power centers set up in Honduras with U.S. assistance decades ago remain ...

Domestic violence, femicide and criminal impunity have been persistent problems in Honduras. According to the United Nations, Honduras has the highest femicide rate in the Latin American region ...

Honduras’ record level of violent crime is costing the Central American country 10 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) every year, according to a World Bank representative. Speaking at a March ...

An Asylum-Seeker Talks About Fleeing Domestic Violence NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sinthia. Originally from Honduras, her husband became abusive and violent. She fled with her 5-year-old son and ...

Violence against transgender people is a constant in Honduras, and the attacks rarely lead to an investigation or prosecution. On January 9, 2009, unknown assailants shot and killed Cynthia Nicole ...

Updated Thursday at 5:35 p.m. ET "Hitting a woman for a man is as normal as eating a tortilla from a food stand on the way to work," said Karen Paz, 34, from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, revealing ...