Declare the Year 2010 as the Year of Transparency and Accountability
Poder Ejecutivo
- Decree: 006-2010
- Published: June 16, 2010
- Issuing body: Poder Ejecutivo
- Gazette: 32,239
- Category: Administrative
Summary
This decree declares 2010 as the Year of Transparency and Accountability in Honduras. It aims to promote transparency in public officials' actions and ensure citizens have access to information about government activities, thereby strengthening democracy and fighting corruption.
Considerations
That in order to protect the interests of citizens and the Rule of Law, the application of the Principle of Transparency in the actions of public officials and servants is essential.
That Honduras is a State of Law insofar as it is the duty of every citizen and particularly those who are public officials and servants to consolidate said State of Law, through compliance with the laws and respect for institutions.
That together with the Principle of Transparency, the Principle of Access to Information must prevail, which allows the general population to know the actions of their public officials.
That the State of Honduras has ratified the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, which has the purpose of promoting and strengthening the development by each of the States Parties of the necessary mechanisms to prevent, detect, punish and eradicate corruption; and,
That in order to guarantee the Honduran people the right of access to information, the Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information was approved, which has the purpose of developing and implementing the National Policy of Transparency, as well as the exercise of the right of every person to access public information for the strengthening of the Rule of Law and consolidation of democracy.
That it is a priority and a commitment of the current Government to apply the principles and regulations that contribute to the transparency of all acts of the Public Administration at all its levels.
Articles
Declare the year 2010 as the "Year of Transparency and Accountability".
This Executive Decree is of immediate execution and shall be published in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta". Given at Presidential House, Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, on the twenty-second day of the month of February of the year two thousand ten. BE IT KNOWN. PORFIRIO LOBO SOSA CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC CARLOS ÁFRICO MADRID HART SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF GOVERNANCE AND JUSTICE MARÍA ANTONIETA GUILLÉN VÁSQUEZ PRESIDENTIAL DESIGNEE IN CHARGE OF THE SECRETARIAT OF STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE MARIO MIGUEL CANAHUATI CANAHUATI SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS BERNARD MARTÍNEZ VALERIO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF CULTURE, ARTS AND SPORTS WILLIAM CHONG WONG SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF FINANCE MIGUEL RODRIGO PASTOR MEJÍA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF PUBLIC WORKS, TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING OSCAR ARMANDO ESCALANTE AYALA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE JUAN JOSÉ OSORIO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK, BY LAW ADOLFO LIONEL SEVILLA SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF NATIONAL DEFENSE VALERIO GUTIÉRREZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT OSCAR ARTURO ÁLVAREZ GUERRERO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF SECURITY HILDA ROSARIO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT CINTHIA CAROLINA BENNETT SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF TOURISM, BY LAW ARTURO GERARDO CORRALES ÁLVAREZ TECHNICAL SECRETARY OF PLANNING AND EXTERNAL COOPERATION FELÍCITO ÁVILA ORDÓÑEZ SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICES OF LABOR AND SOCIAL SECURITY CÉSAR DAVID HAM PEÑA MINISTER-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL AGRARIAN INSTITUTE ARTURO BENDAÑA PINEL SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF HEALTH NASRY JUAN ASFURA MINISTER-DIRECTOR OF THE HONDURAN SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND JOSÉ ALEJANDRO VENTURA SORIANO SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION MARÍA ANTONIETA BOTTO HANDAL MINISTER-DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WOMEN
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