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Honduras: International treaty status

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The following table sets out the status of a range of international treaties in Honduras as of 19 August 2014.

Ratification accession or succession
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights  25 August 1997
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights  7 June 2005
Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty  1 April 2008
International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights  17 February 1981
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights  No signature or ratification
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment  5 December 1996
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment  23 May 2006
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance  1 April 2008
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination  10 October 2002
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 3 May 1983
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women  No signature or ratification
Convention on the Rights of the Child  10 August 1990
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict  14 August 2002
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children Child Prostitution and Child Pornography  8 May 2002
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure No signature or ratification
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families  9 August 2005
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities  14 April 2008
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities  16 August 2010
Ratification accession or succession
Geneva Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field  31 December 1965
Geneva Convention II for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea  31 December 1965
Geneva Convention III relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War  31 December 1965
Geneva Convention IV relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War  31 December 1965
Additional Protocol I relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts  16 February 1995
Additional Protocol II relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts  16 February 1995
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court  1 July 2002
Convention against Corruption  23 May 2005
Ratification accession or succession
American Convention on Human Rights  25 September 1977

 

In the 2011 Universal Periodic Review before the Human Rights Council, Honduras agreed to consider the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which establish complaint and inquiry mechanisms for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, respectively; as of 30 October 2014 the country had not yet acceded to those treaties.[1]

According the Constitution of Honduras, treaties in force prevail over national law, in case of a conflict in the provisions.[2]

 

Footnotes    (↵ returns to text)

  1. 1. United Nations Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, UN Doc. A/HRC/16/10 (2011), page 21.↵
  2. 2. Constitution, Article 18.

    In case of conflict between the treaty or convention, and the law, the former shall prevail.

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