Honduran officials say the United Nations is establishing a local office to monitor human rights in the violence-plagued Central American nation.
Attorney General Abraham Alvarenga says the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights will open in the Honduran capital in the second half of the year.
Alvarenga says the country has seen "significant changes" on human rights in the last two years, but there are expectations for more progress.
He said Wednesday that the aim of the new office is to "improve basic guarantees in this country."
The U.N. office was requested by Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez in January during a visit by U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
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