Detailed case study of human rights in Honduras, including the violations, key stats and population metrics, players involved in global governance, opportunities and challenges and exam technique top-tips
Players involved in global governance in Honduras: Human Rights Issues:
1. United Nations ➢ Violation of right to education: students are shot in their classrooms,
- Sent a human rights advisor to Honduras at request of its govt. teachers are too afraid to turn up to school, limited state funding
Aims: ➢ Violations of women's rights & freedoms: more at risk of violence from
- Strengthen govt. institutions working in human rights gang members, used as sex slaves and family could be murdered if they try
to leave = 'poverty has the woman's face’
- Build stronger human rights culture/norms
➢ Violations of children's rights: forced to join gangs or be executed, child
- Implement Honduran Human Rights Action Plan
trafficking, child prostitution
- Coordinate work of civil society & Honduran govt. ➢ Unlawful use of force & corruption of police/legal system
➢ Killings in rural areas over land-disputes: agro-industrial firms vs local
2. Foreign Aid from USA Indigenous organisations (anti-Indigenous discrimination)
- US$50mil provided in security 2010-2014 ➢ Poverty, gang culture & drug-related violence: limits access to healthcare &
- Central American Regional Security Initiative provides continued education = reduced job prospects & life expectancy
assistance ➢ Intimidation, threats & killings of journalists = suppression of freedom of
- Military & police aid available if Honduran govt. meets specific speech, expression & thought
human rights stipulations
- Current USA-Honduras cooperation through Country Development
Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) 2020-2025: 'a more prosperous,
democratic, and secure Honduras where citizens, especially youth,
are inspired to stay and invest in their future' = development Honduras – Case study
objectives designed to reduce irregular migration of strategies for global
- USAID projects spreading awareness of how to combat child governance on human
malnutrition and expand women's education & empowerment rights in an LIDC
through boosting the cassava industry
3. Honduran Government
Set up ministries for:
- Justice & Human Rights
- Security
- Commissions to reform citizen security + prevent torture
Relies heavily on NGOs to address provision of primary healthcare in
General Facts:
rural areas & other issues
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• GDP per capita: US$2831
4. NGOs • HDI: 0.621 (2021) ranked 137th/191 What human rights are
- Care International Art project in Honduran schools: has been • Adult literacy rate: 88.51% (2018) these strategies protecting
working in country for 8yrs • Life expectancy: 55 (2001) - 75.69yrs and promoting?
- If families can promote the education of their children, those (2022)
children have great potential to succeed • Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR): How successful have they
65/100,000 live births (2017) been in the long/short
5. Private Players (Kenco) • Infant Mortality Rate (IMR): term (use ‘General Facts’
- Try to keep young people out of gangs & train them to be coffee farmers 13.889/1000 live births (2021) box & graphs)?
- 20 people selected from at-risk areas for entrepreneurship training • P% pop. living on <US$2/day: 35%
- Free training out in the countryside for a whole year (2007) - 44% (2013) What variations in
- Some people may drop out of the program as there is a lot of physical • Access to healthcare services: 9% provisions could there be
labour involved (2003) - 50% (2013) between urban/rural
• Children in school: 1mil (2001) - areas?
6mil, 40% girls (2013)
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