Global governance in Honduras
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- Created on: 16-03-23 11:19
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- Global Governance in Honduras
- Human rights issues
- Attacks on Journalists
- 43 journalists murdered between 2010 and 2014
- Murder rates are amongst the highest in the world
- 42.01 per 100,000 people
- Gang culture
- Many children experience high levels of violence and are pressured into gangs
- Poverty
- 44% of the population living on less than US$2 a day
- Limited access to healthcare
- 83% of Honduras is without health insurance
- IMR is 25 per 1000
- 30% is without healthcare
- Killings in rural areas over land
- >90 have been killed in recent years in land disputes in the Bajo Aguan Valley
- Attacks on Journalists
- Global governance
- Care international (NGO)
- Reached 499 smallholder producers and 306 women micro-entrepreneurs
- Reached 32,889 people indirectly
- Productivity of yellow maize increased by 488.6% white maize by 16& and red beans by 23%
- 99.6% of smallholder producers have access to new technology
- 88% of producers and 80% of entrepreneurs have started a new business
- 36,000 women and 84,000 mean have benefitted
- Given >70,000 the right to health
- USAID
- Supported an anticorruption body
- 461 officials received anticorruption training
- Agricultural investments have lifted over 68,000 people out of extreme poverty
- Honduran government co-invested $56 million to expand this
- 73% decline in homocides
- Due to community based efforts like education for at-risk youths
- 34.17 million has been invested to strengthen the local government
- Supported an anticorruption body
- Kenco
- Kenco selected 20 at-risk youths to employ them and help them out of poverty
- They give these youths a way out that isn't straight into a gang
- Gang numbers outweigh police force 3:1
- 114,000 coffee farmers in Honduras
- CAFTA-DR
- It is a free trade agreement which has increased trade opportunities
- Care international (NGO)
- Challenges
- Honduras remains ranked as the most unequal country in Latin America
- With the huge number of gang members compared to police officials it makes intervention difficult
- Attacks on journalists continue
- Violence against children continues
- Judges face acts of intimidation
- Remains unequal access to healthcare and education
- Human rights issues
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