Global Governance Case Study - Honduras

Key Facts

• MMR 120 per 100,000
• IMR 17.8 per 1000

Human Rights Breaches

• High murder rate 60 per 100,000 in 2015 (80 per 100,000 in 2011)
• Corrupt police
• Discrimination and murder of indigenous people
• Gang culture and drug related violence
• Human trafficking, child labour and prostitution
• 44% in absolute poverty (<$1.25 per day)

Governance Strategies

• UN human rights advisor, per request of the Honduras Government
• $50 million provided by US in security
• Implementation of the Honduran National Human Rights Action Plan
• Central American Regional Security Initiative provides assistance and monetary funds

• Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Security set up
• CARE International (NGO) helps improve poverty, education, employment, food and water provisions

Positives and Negatives

• Spatial inequality
• Rural to urban migration
• Unequal access to healthcare (many still infected with HIV)
• Judges face intimidation
• Reporters attacked
• HDI increase from 0.461 (1980) to 0.617 (2013)
• Education to prevent youth gangs
• USA, UN and civil society implementing new food security programmes, promoting economic diversion and training for natural disasters
• CAFTA-DR's increasing sales opportunities for small farmers
• 40% of the population <15 so the Ministry of Education has reformed policies to reach Millenium Development Goals
• Maternal and child health nutrition improvements, reducing the spread of HIV