Honduras | Gender in Infrastructure

Legal Framework and Institutional Mechanisms

Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Ratification in 1983. Main reference document for equality between men and women. Through its ratification or accession to it the States are legally bound to adopt all necessary measures, including special temporary measures and laws, in order for women to fully enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The signatory countries take responsibility for the implementation of the Platform for Action, in which 12 critical areas of concern for the advancement of women are defined.
Constitution and reforms (1982). All Hondurans are equal before the law. All forms of discrimination based on gender, race, social status or any other detrimental to human dignity are declared to be punishable.
National Women's Institute (1998). Its aim is to ensure the fulfillment of the State's plan in matters related to women's condition (health, education, housing, employment, and land and food security).

Equal opportunities

Act for Equality of Opportunity for Women (2000). The State guarantees equality and equity between men and women in the design and implementation of public policies for programs and projects' implementation and coordination. It is the State's obligation to promote, among families and through formal and alternative education, the redistribution of family responsibilities which derive from the reproduction and care of the family, in order to achieve equality of opportunity and a fair of division of labor. It establishes that men and women's paid work outside the home is not to interfere with family responsibilities and both are required to share housework under equal conditions. Employers employing more than 30 female workers are required to provide them with childcare facilities.
National Women's Policy. The Second Gender Equality and Equity Plan of Honduras 2010-2022. It promotes inter-institutional programs around 6 lines of action, among them promotion, protection and guarantee of access to political and social participation, and education and information for women, as well as defense of women's economic rights.
National Vision 2010-2038 and National Plan 2010-2022. It defines gender equity as a cross-cutting focus for all the State's programs.
Labor Code (1959). It establishes equal payment for work of equal value, free from discrimination.

Personal and labor conciliation

Labor Code (1959). Pregnant workers shall enjoy mandatory and paidmaternity leave during the 4 weeks prior to childbirth and the 6 subsequent ones, and shall retain all their rights in accordance to their contracts. This period may be extended to a maximum of 84 days. No provision is made forpaternity leave.

Violence due to gender

Executive Order 23 reforms the Criminal Code (2013). It classifies femicide.
Decree 250-05 reforms the Act against Domestic Violence (2005). It introduced coordination and monitoring mechanisms, as well as an increase in penalties.

Legal Framework and Institutional Mechanisms

Equal opportunities

Personal and labor conciliation

Violence due to gender

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