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improve the employability of young people. One goal was for the generation of 200,000 job
opportunities.
53.
The Undersecretary of State in the Offices of Development and Social Inclusion
referred to the policy of social protection and the Better Life programme targeting people in
condition of poverty and extreme poverty, with components of healthy housing, such as
water filters, latrines, ecological ovens, construction of cement floors, storage of water,
roofs and solidarity bags with food, which had benefited more than 100,000 families.
54.
Other programmes included ones for productive micro-enterprises and family
farming, the Presidential Better Life Bonus programme and the School Lunch programme.
55.
Honduras was currently holding consultations for the elaboration of a policy against
racism and racial discrimination to ensure the social and political participation of
indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants and the exercise of intercultural citizenship, as
well as the right to bilingual intercultural education, right to health, land and natural
resources.
56.
A public policy and strategic plan to guarantee the human rights of persons with
disabilities had been adopted. Honduras had also subscribed to the Program of Action for
the Decade of the Americas for the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
57.
The Undersecretary of Human Rights and Justice noted that, after the first universal
periodic review, Honduras had led a broad process of consultation to design and adopt the
National Action Plan on Human Rights 2013–2022, which incorporated and transformed
into strategic action over 1,200 recommendations, including from civil society, the human
rights treaty bodies and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
58.
The first phase of the Human Rights Observatory, to measure progress on human
rights issues and to facilitate reporting to treaty bodies and society in general, was also
under way. Honduras was currently designing an integrated monitoring and evaluation
system to assess the impact of the National Action Plan on Human Rights.
59.
Honduras was committed to continuing the citizen’s dialogue and participation. It
would share the outcome of the second review and promote the implementation of
subsequent recommendations.
B.
Interactive dialogue and responses by the State under review
60.
During the interactive dialogue, 60 delegations made statements. Recommendations
made during the dialogue can be found in section II of the present report. All written
statements of the delegations, to be checked against delivery on the United Nations
Webcast archives,1 are posted on the extranet of the Human Rights Council when available.
61.
Guatemala commended the creation of the Secretariat for Human Rights and the
adoption of the National Action Plan on Human Rights. It shared the concern of the
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination regarding the loss of the A-status
by the National Human Rights Commission.
62.
The Holy See acknowledged Honduran efforts to bring national legislation into
greater conformity with the international human rights instruments, especially those relating
to the prevention of enforced disappearances and torture, the national human rights
institution and the ratification of several instruments.
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http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/human-rights-council/universal-periodic-review/watch/hondurasreview-22nd-session-of-universal-periodic-review/4224969251001.
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