⁍ Human Rights Watch criticized Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala for failing to stop violence against LGBT people.

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⁍ ‘LGBT people in the Northern Triangle face high levels of violence that their own governments appear unable or unwilling to address,’ said Neela Ghoshal, senior LGBT rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.

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⁍ The governments of the three Central American nations did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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– Human Rights Watch says lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras face “high levels of violence that their own governments appear unable or unwilling to address,” Reuters reports. According to a report released Wednesday, LGBT people in the three Central American nations “face high levels of violence that their own governments appear unable or unwilling to address.” Human Rights Watch interviewed 116 LGBT people from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras for its “Every Day I Live in Fear” report. “For some LGBT people in the region, seeking asylum in the United States is the only hope of safety, but the Trump administration has blocked them at every turn,” Human Rights Watch spokesperson Neela Ghoshal says in a statement. LGBT people in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are seeking asylum in the US because of violence against them, discrimination against them, and their fear for their lives, the Guardian reports. According to the report, LGBT people in the US are being denied asylum because the US is tightening its asylum laws.