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Honduras has enacted criminal-code reforms raising femicide sentences from 25–30 years to up to 60 years for aggravated cases and establishing specialized courts staffed exclusively by women judges to handle femicide and violence-against-women cases.

Honduras, where a woman is killed every 32 hours, has approved sweeping Penal Code reforms raising femicide sentences to as high as 60 years and mandating specialized courts to handle gender-violence cases.