Establish a System of Promotion and Protection for the rights of children and adolescents in the three level of government for the implementation and coordination of public policies, with an emphasis on the local level, which guarantee the right to life free of violence and prevent forced migrations of this sector. The coordinated effort will help to address the structural causes of violence by means of legal, political, administrative, social and cultural measures. For this purpose, provide the DINAF with the necessary resources to execute its mandate. Evaluate how it is functioning and possible areas that require strengthening in coordination with civil society organizations.
Strengthen the capacity to protect and defend the rights of children and adolescents, in particular by providing judges, prosecutors, and defenders who are specialized in the topic to lift the obstacles that prevent effective access to justice by children and adolescents.
Develop the necessary skills to provide opportunities and training for the neediest children, through the agencies specializing in the rights and needs of children, as a further step in this process.
Adopt safety and control measures necessary to guarantee the life and integrity of children and adolescents deprived of their liberty, particularly those who are exposed to generalized violence by gangs or maras.
Ensure the rehabilitation centres’ conditions meet at least the basic international standards on human rights.
Appoint specialized judges in the enforcement of judgments in juvenile jurisdiction, who systematically monitor the human rights situation in these establishments.
Adopt the policies and measures necessary to deal with the factors whereby people are forced to migrate from Honduras. In this regard, it is particularly important that such problems as inequality, poverty, and violence are addressed.
Develop regional instruments and mechanisms to combat the criminal activities of transnational criminal organizations involved in migrant abductions, trafficking in persons, and migrant smuggling.
Increase the DINAF’s human, administrative, and financial resources so that its officers can provide returnee children and adolescents with comprehensive attention, in accordance with its obligations under the Protocol on Repatriation.
Improve its mechanisms and capacity for detecting trafficking victims and survivors and people who might be vulnerable to trafficking.
Develop education and job training programs and ensure that repatriated children have access to them.
Implement reintegration programs for adult Honduran migrants in all the departments and municipalities where repatriated migrants are to be found. For repatriated Honduran migrants with disabilities, ensure that they are given the social services that they need, including health care, together with other education programs so they can acquire training in other skills that will enable them to contribute to society anew and enjoy a decent life.
As regards disappeared and unlocatable migrants and unidentified remains, the Honduran State must implement a national mechanism to facilitate the exchange of forensic information on the unidentified remains of Hondurans who have disappeared in Mexico or the United States with other similar mechanisms that exist in such countries as Mexico or the United States, together with any others that may be created. This national mechanism must be integrated with a similar regional mechanism to allow forensic information to be exchanged between the countries of Central and North America. The management of both mechanisms must involve representatives of civil society.
Prepare a national diagnostic assessment to examine internal displacement in Honduras and, subsequently, to adopt a national policy and the measures necessary to respond in accordance with the applicable international standards, in particular the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
Enact specific legislation at the national level to deal with internal displacement, in accordance with the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.
The Commission reiterates its call for the region’s states—in particular, the United States, Mexico, and other Central American countries that Honduran migrants cross—to adopt, in conjunction with Honduras:
All the policies, laws, and practices necessary to guarantee the right to safe and orderly migration and to comply with their other international obligations as regards protecting the human rights of migrants who leave, cross, or enter their territories; and
Take joint responsibility of States in managing migratory flows which can under no circumstances lead to the failure of those states to comply with their human rights obligations toward people under their jurisdiction.
38.Bajo Aguán
Step up its efforts to resolve the land conflict in Bajo Aguán. To this end, the State must take steps to resolve the causes of the conflict and apply the principle of equality and nondiscrimination, in order to address the obstacles and barriers to the exercise, respect, and upholding of the economic, social, and cultural rights of the campesino communities of Bajo Aguán.
Conduct serious and effective investigations into the killings and other human rights violations committed in Bajo Aguán.
Guarantee respect for the rights of children and youths, in particular their right to education and to health, by equipping schools and health facilities with adequate staffs and budgets, with personnel who are trained in dealing with campesino communities.
