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San Pedro Sula

Dora Melara is an attorney working for Justice in Motion, a US-based nonprofit. She took a road trip recently to track down some family members separated at the US border.

This Honduran lawyer reunites families separated at the US-Mexico border. It involves difficult road trips — and detective work.

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So far, much of the burden of finding families has been on nonprofits and lawyers like Dora Melara, who often start with very little information and have to rely on the kindness of strangers to track people down. 

Indyra Mendoza is shown wearing a dark shirt and standing in front of a projector showing a news clipping.

This activist group is taking on the state of Honduras in the first trans femicide court case

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