Honduras

Prevalence Data on Different Forms of Violence against Women:

Lifetime Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence :27.8 % ⁽¹⁾

Physical and/or Sexual Intimate Partner Violence in the last 12 months : 6.8 % ⁽²⁾

Lifetime Non-Partner Sexual Violence : Official National Statistics Not Available

Child Marriage :33.6 % ⁽³⁾

Reports submitted by UN Human Rights Bodies:

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences

Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Gender Equality Indexes:

Gender Inequality Index Rank :100 ⁽⁴⁾

Global Gender Gap Index Rank :67 ⁽⁵⁾

Honduras Search Data

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Criminal Code "Femicide"

Honduras | 2013

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Femicide/Feminicide

Amendments to the Penal Code

Honduras | 1999

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence, Sexual harassment

Law on Domestic Violence

Honduras | 1997

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

La Ley Contra La Violencia Doméstica

Honduras | 1997

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Domestic violence/Intimate partner violence

Penal Code Amendments

Type of Measure : Violence against women > Legislation

Form of Violence : Violence against women and girls

⁽¹⁾ Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. Source: Secretaría de Salud [Honduras], Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) e ICF International, 2013. Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Demografía 2011-2012. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

⁽²⁾ Proportion of ever-partnered women aged 15-49 years experiencing intimate partner physical and/or sexual violence in the last 12 months. Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y la Secretaria de Salud de Honduras. (2021). Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud / Encuesta de Indicadores Múltiples por Conglomerados. Honduras 2019. Tegucigalpa.

⁽³⁾ Percentage of women aged 20 to 24 years who were first married or in union before age 18. Source: UNICEF global databases, 2021, based on DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.

⁽⁴⁾ The Gender Inequality Index is a composite measure reflecting inequality between women and men in three different dimensions: reproductive health (maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rate), empowerment (share of parliamentary seats held by women and share of population with at least some secondary education), and labour market participation (labour force participation rate). Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2020.

⁽⁵⁾ The Global Gender Gap Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria. Source: World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report 2021.