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Contains reports, articles, clippings, conference materials, memos, court cases, press releases, "sign on" letters and hilldrops, and other assorted materials. Topics focus on human rights including "disappearances," torture, killings by military, and status of human rights in Honduras; elections and administration of justice by the state; the National Police and its human rights abuses; labor and economic issues; and declassification. Features multiple NGOs including CODEH, as well as financial institutions such as IMF and World Bank. Also includes some references to the Nicaragua-centered Contra War as well as Honduran relations to the US; this includes US links to Battalion 316 that became well-known after a series of newspaper articles in the Baltimore Sun in the mid-1990s.

Contains briefings, reports, white papers, correspondence, and other documents on assorted topics including human rights, drugs, US relations, and politics and government. Additionally, includes the State of the Mexican Union address in 1995 by President Zedillo, a 1991 white paper on NAFTA and human rights, materials on poverty and social movements, and exchanges between WOLA and various individuals and organizations.