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Honduras
A combined view of Honduras's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
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Honduras's UN rhetoric has evolved from morally charged critiques of global inequality in the mid-2000s to increasingly domestically focused progress reports since 2010, punctuated by crises and shifting political agendas. The 2009 coup response marked a turning point toward more concrete self-accounting, while the emotional intensity and nationalist framing have remained consistently high—particularly sharp in recent years (2022–2025), when speeches blend detailed domestic achievements with denunciations of international financial systems and Western institutions. Despite sustained calls for multilateral cooperation on shared threats like migration, drug trafficking, and climate change, the country's commitment to broad-based multilateralism has trended downward over the period, especially during 2022–2024, reflecting a more sovereigntist and anti-establishment stance.
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Medium | Very High | Very Low | Low |
| 2007 | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2009 | High | Very High | Medium | Low |
| 2010 | Medium | Medium | High | High |
| 2011 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2012 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2015 | Medium | Very High | Very Low | Very Low |
| 2016 | Medium | High | High | Very High |
| 2017 | Low | High | Very High | Very High |
| 2018 | Low | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2021 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2022 | Low | Very High | Medium | High |
| 2023 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2024 | Medium | Very High | High | Very High |
| 2025 | High | Very High | High | Medium |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Honduras demonstrates comprehensive engagement across all major treaty themes, having ratified all 24 tracked agreements spanning arms control, environmental protection, human rights, international justice, and trade governance. The country's strongest commitments are to environmental treaties—including the Paris Agreement, Kyoto Protocol, and biodiversity conventions—and to core human rights instruments, with full adherence to anti-torture, anti-discrimination, and children's rights conventions. This universal ratification record indicates formal commitment to international legal norms despite the increasingly critical rhetoric toward multilateral institutions in recent speeches.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyRatified
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatyRatified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsRatified
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryRatified
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRatified
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtRatified
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Honduras votes in alignment with General Assembly consensus in approximately 80% of recorded votes (4,578 affirmative of 5,694 total), with relatively infrequent abstentions (531) and a minimal no-vote record (82 across decades). Its notable dissents—on Middle East resolutions, the Belize question, Namibian colonialism, and arms control matters—span multiple decades and do not form a coherent ideological pattern, suggesting either shifting foreign policy priorities or alignment with specific regional or strategic interests rather than systematic opposition to UN consensus.
Notable dissents from consensus
The situation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1987-12-11 · voted N · 98% voted yes
Question of Belize : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1977-11-28 · voted N · 97% voted yes
Activities of foreign economic and other interests which are impeding the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Namibia and in all other Territories under colonial domination and efforts to eliminate colonialism, apartheid and racial discrimination in southern Africa : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1982-11-23 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Preservation of an compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile System : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2000-11-20 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Report of the Trade and Development Board : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1974-11-06 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.645 (Medium), ranked #139 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
1990–2023