In Honduras, Ayuda en Acción is one of the organizations that participates in the Spotlight Initiative promoted by the United Nations and the European Union to focus on the violence that women and girls experience and that remains invisible in one way or another. 

In this case, from Ayuda en Acción we focus on Lenca, Tolupana, Miskito and Garífuna indigenous women and girls. But in order to act, it is first necessary to know the situation in which they find themselves. It is for this reason that we have promoted a rapid diagnosis that was finally presented at an event in which women of all ages discussed the motto “Women and girls say NO TO FEAR.”

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Public Policy for Gender Equity and Equality of Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples, SEDINAFROH, Secretariat of Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples, undertakes to include and develop the thematic axis of Prevention and approach to Violence against Women in the aforementioned policy, with the objective of sanctioning and eradicating all forms of violence against women belonging to the Lenca, Garifuna, Miskitu, Pech, Tawaka, Maya-Chorti, Isleño, Tolupan and Nahua peoples. This thematic axis will be developed in coherence with axis 2 of the II Plan for Gender Equality and Equity of Honduras (II PIEGH) - Promotion, Protection, and Guarantee of the Right of Women, Girls, and Adolescents to Peace and a Life Free of Violence. Similarly, it will take into account the National Plan against Violence against Women 2012-2022. This policy has been consulted and is being elaborated in a participatory manner, respecting the specificity of the realities and cultures of the women of the nine ancestral towns of the country.

(Translated from Spanish)