Honduras

Status of violence against women in Honduras

Centro de Derechos de Mujeres

29/07/2014

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[…] The IV State of the Region Report on Sustainable Development in Central America8 confirms that Honduras is fast becoming a type of State that is hostile to democracy, one that is characterized by its own acts against democratic legality ––deliberate Executive actions to co-opt the Judicial Branch by equipping it with small institutional structures and precarious networks in key areas of work. By and large, the Executive directly controls the budget and the administration of the majority of public institutions. In this context of institutional fragility, the State’s decision-making process is penetrated by corporate networks, which end up granting more power to business and industrial sectors. Governability is threatened by violence that results in murders, mainly those of young people, both men and women. With regards to human rights, the country has received poor evaluation scores in almost all governability indicators, such as social inclusion, social participation, peacemaking or coexistence, competitiveness, and respect for human rights, among others.

According to estimates of the Observatory on Violence of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), a person was killed every 78 minutes in 2013. In the course of the year, a million firearms were in circulation in the country, of which scarcely 282 thousand were duly registered.9 The Weapons Possession Law authorizes each citizen to have in his or her power up to five commercial firearms; this provision, in conjunction with the high number of illegal arms circulating in the country, foments a death culture fueled by high levels of impunity.

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- Centro de Derechos de Mujeres, Red Nacional de Defensoras de Derechos Humanos de Honduras, Foro de Mujeres por la Vida, JASS-Honduras y Centro de Estudios de la Mujer

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