A/HRC/33/42/Add.2 indigenous organizations in the country. Various indigenous organizations have also put forward their own legislative proposals on prior consultation. 15. The Office of the National Commissioner for Human Rights informed the Special Rapporteur of its plan of action for the period 2014-2020, which sets out measures to support vulnerable groups, including indigenous peoples, providing greater access to the system of complaints and claims, reforms to that system and action to ensure coordination between State bodies and civil society to devise plans of action in support of vulnerable groups. Other objectives were to provide public officials, the private sector and civil society with human rights training and to monitor the public services and social programmes provided by central Government and municipalities. The Special Rapporteur was told that the Office had supported indigenous peoples in their complaints concerning land-related problems and indigenous individuals involved in criminal proceedings. 16. With regard to education, a presidential decision of 1994 recognized the “multicultural and multilingual nature of Honduran society” and established a national programme to promote intercultural bilingual education. 6 The General Subdirectorate of Education for Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples is responsible for implementing this programme, which includes overseeing the training of indigenous teachers, developing educational materials and ensuring that in indigenous population centres education will be conducted “in the mother tongue by indigenous and specialized teachers, with a view to helping to preserve and strengthen the language, the world view and the identity of the indigenous peoples”.7 17. The recent administrative reform and the establishment of various ministries do not seem to have resulted in any improvement in incorporating the rights of indigenous peoples into State activities, owing to poor coordination and institutional weakness. IV. Principal concerns 18. Indigenous peoples face systemic problems that hinder the full enjoyment of their rights. The lack of protection for their lands, territories and natural resources, together with impunity and inadequate access to justice, are fundamental problems that leave them totally defenceless in the face of acts of violence by various parties. They also suffer from a precarious social and economic situation of multidimensional poverty as a result of extreme inequality, corruption and the lack of basic social services. A. Violence and impunity 19. Honduras is one of the most violent countries in the world and indigenous peoples are drawn into this violence and general insecurity. According to various statistics, the homicide rate per 100,000 head of the population in Honduras was somewhere between 85.6 and 90.4 in 2012, and in 2014 it was about 68. 8 A person who becomes a human rights defender in Honduras stands an increased risk of falling victim to violence. 20. The murder of indigenous leaders who defend their lands, including a large number of leaders of the Tolupán, Garífuna, Lenca, Chortí and Pech peoples, is among the subjects that give rise to the most complaints to the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Ethnic 6 7 8 6 Presidential Decision No. 0719-EP-94. Executive Decision No. 1359-SE-2014, art. 49. See Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Situation of Human Rights in Honduras, OEA/Ser.L/v/ii, Doc. 42/15 (2015), paras. 32-34. GE.16-12632