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Safe places

If you need to leave your home now for your safety, you are not alone and there are places to go. This page explains how to reach one — and why we do not publish exact addresses.

What to do right now

Call 911 or 114, or go to the Fiscalía de la Mujer, a MAIE, or the nearest court (see the directory by department). They coordinate the connection to the nearest available refuge — it is something they arrange every day.

Why we do not publish addresses

The Ley Contra la Violencia Doméstica (Art. 6, paragraph J) requires the State — through INAM, the Secretaría de Gobernación y Justicia, and the municipalities — to maintain temporary shelters and refuge houses. But most of these houses keep their exact location confidential for the safety of the people living there; they are colloquially known as “casas secretas”.

That is why this directory deliberately includes not a single refuge address — not even ones that have appeared in the news at some point. The correct pattern is not a map with a pin but a phone call: the institutions that handle referrals know which refuge has space at any given moment and can arrange your transfer safely.

What is publicly known

Honduras does have refuge houses in operation and under construction, even though we do not publish exactly where they are:

Casa Hogar Santa Rosa (Copán) — run by Fundación CAMO since 2008-2010, with support from CAMO USA, the Congreso Nacional, the municipality and the community of Santa Rosa de Copán. It provides food, accommodation, security, legal support, health care, psychology and training.
A new Casa Refugio for the Tegucigalpa area, a joint project of the Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central (AMDC) and the Secretaría de Asuntos de la Mujer (SEMUJER), with capacity for 51 people. It will offer general medicine, gynaecology, psychiatry, psychology, social work and legal advice.

Access to both — and to any other refuge house — is arranged through the Policía Nacional, the Ministerio Público or the courts, never by going directly.

How long you can stay

A typical stay is up to 3 months for victims of domestic or sexual violence. For victims of trafficking or displacement by violence there is no fixed time limit, since the stay depends on the legal relocation process.

If your situation is not one of immediate danger but you want to speak to someone confidentially before deciding, see the support organisations or the CONECTA platform under emergency lines.

You may not be the one who has to leave. Article 6 of the Ley contra la Violencia Doméstica allows the court — on the mere filing of the report, and also the Ministerio Público or the Policía Nacional — to temporarily remove the reported person from the home and prohibit him from going near the house. He may take only his personal effects and his work or study tools, because the Law says that your safety, your health and your life prevail over his right to occupy the home. And if you have already had to leave for safety, the same article provides for returning you to the home at your request — with restitution of your property and household goods — applying his removal immediately. If you are the one who has to leave, you may take the property that secures your wellbeing and that of the family group.

Source

Ley contra la Violencia Doméstica (Decreto No. 132-97 and its amendments) — Article 6.