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fulfilling that task. As a consequence of a lack of political will, impunity continued to
prevail.
538. The African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters congratulated
Honduras on its role as sponsor of the Global Summit of People of African Descent, to be
held in August 2011. It recalled the historical clash between cultures on the American
continent, where discrimination persisted. The Commission underlined the loss of
languages and ancestral traditions and referred to the specific case of the Garifuna people,
who preserved their languages but needed support to preserve their territory. It welcomed
the commemoration of the month of Persons of African Descent in April 2011, while the
Garifuna people would celebrate the 214th year of their existence in Honduras.
4.
Concluding remarks of the State under review
539. Honduras had accepted all 129 recommendations received during the review and had
postponed only two owing to budgetary concerns.
540.
Honduras reported that:
(a)
It had extended an invitation to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of
human rights defenders, who had accepted to visit the country in September 2011; it had
also invited the Special Rapporteur on the right to education and the ChairpersonRapporteur of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the
exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination to conduct visits to the country;
(b)
A presidential decree had been adopted, establishing, as a national policy, a
road map for the prevention and eradication of child labour and its worst forms;
(c)
The Secretary of Social Development would provide financial and technical
support for all kind of activities for the implementation of the second national plan of action
for the prevention and eradication of child labour for the period 2008–2015;
(d)
The commission against commercial sexual exploitation of children had
begun a consultation process before presenting a draft law on trafficking to Congress;
(e)
A national policy on nutritional and food security had been adopted in order
to guarantee the adoption of sector policy guidelines in the fields of health, education,
social protection, water and sanitation, and basic infrastructure;
(f)
Congress had passed a law incorporating the crime of forced disappearance
into domestic legislation;
(g)
Congress had initiated a consultation process regarding the draft law on the
council of the judiciary and the judicial career;
(h)
Similarly, a consultation process regarding a draft law on the protection of
Honduran migrants and their families had been launched;
(i)
A trust fund for Hondurans abroad had been established to help migrants
living in poverty and in situations of vulnerability; 300 persons had already been assisted;
(j)
A national policy for the advancement of juveniles had been established in
order to coordinate State efforts and civil society contributions for the improvement of life
conditions of juveniles;
(k)
A national policy on climate change had been adopted with the purpose of
implementing adaptation and mitigation measures;
(l)
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Congress had repealed the Law on the State of Emergency;
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