Teenagers from "Yo también tengo algo que decir"
(I also have something to say) promote the campaign "Format the machismo"
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The campaign 'Format the Machismo' is being relaunched this year in response to the need to continue counteracting the hegemonic discourses of gender inequality. Adolescents from the organization "I also have something to say", produced 5 videos with key messages about the importance of Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) that are being disseminated on social media with the support of Paz y Esperanza. As part of the campaign, workshops and information fairs were held in rural educational institutions in the department of Huánuco, Peru. A joint statement against bill 904, which conditions the implementation of a CSE with a gender approach in schools.
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The "Activism for your rights" course is now underway!
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More than 45 adolescents from Latin America and the Caribbean joined the fourth edition of the course "Activism for your rights", organised by Chicos.net and Save the Children's Civil Society Support Programme. The course provides different tools for participants to learn how to use digital media in a critical, responsible and strategic way.
The course, which is 100% online, allows teenagers to share experiences and work together to create a social media campaign. This edition will work on two topics that were selected by the adolescents: the fight against climate change and the promotion of comprehensive sex education.
Throughout 8 virtual sessions, the aim is to provide a first approach to the strategic and practical use of digital tools to viralise messages, within the framework of the defence and promotion of their rights. The meetings will include the participation of social media referents and influencers, who will provide specific tools and address the logic of each social media, helping to devise strategies to viralise messages for the defence of the rights of children and adolescents.
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Molacnnats advocates for the right of children and adolescents to decent work
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Esmeralda Curi, adolescent Latin American delegate of MOLACNATS was interviewed by NTN24 channel, in the framework of the "International Day Against Child Labour". Esmeralda clarified the differences between child labour and child exploitation and pointed out that children and adolescents have the right to work and that they should be protected while at work.She also stressed out the importance of the participation of child and adolescent workers in decision-making, including an honest dialogue that integrates their demands. She called on States to take children's voices into account to achieve positive changes through dialogue.
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Paniamor and Fundasil participate in the presentation of the study “Should I stay or should I go?” and Save the Children's Local Solutions strategy
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On 22 June, Save the Children launched the study "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" and presented the regional strategy "Local Solutions: Improving Quality of Life and Mitigating Migration Risks in Northern Central America, Mexico and the US Border" in a virtual event.
Our partners emphasised local solutions to respond to the migration crisis in northern Central America. "We need to link community networks and make it visible that this population exists, that it is hidden for thousands of reasons," said Milena Grillo, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Fundación Paniamor.
Mayra Gonzales, Director of Fundasil, highlighted: "Inter-institutional cooperation is essential, we cannot do it alone. We need state organisations to trust civil organisations, that we can network. That is indispensable."
Nissi, an adolescent migrant from Honduras, also proposed solutions: "To prevent [unsafe migration], sources of employment for adults and young people should be supported, because if they have a livelihood, they will not migrate. Also, promote projects that inform people about the risks they are exposed to".
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Should I Stay or Should I go? Understanding children’s migration decisions in Northern Central America
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Rednnyas representative participates in webinar on follow-up to treaty body recommendations
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The fourth webinar of the series "How to protect children's rights" focused on the follow-up to recommendations of treaty bodies and other regional mechanisms. Rebeca Arevalos, from Rednnyas, emphasised the role of girls, boys, and adolescents as activists for their rights. She pointed out the relevance of speaking out against violations of their rights, through the design and presentation of alternative reports from the experience of children. She highlighted the importance of being speakers in sessions at the CRC and in bodies such as the IACHR, and about disseminating the recommendations of these bodies in child-friendly formats. In this same webinar, Otto Rivera, Executive Secretary of CIPRODENI, addressed the importance of including children in these processes and working in networks.
In addition, a new guide was presented on "How to promote children's rights using the recommendations from the UN human rights monitoring and review processes, and other regional mechanisms".
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Children and adolescents from the region express their views at the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council
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During the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council, a Latin American delegate from Molacnnats named Esmeralda raised her voice expressing her concerns about the effect of climate change in food production. From her experience as a child agricultural worker, she referred to the situation of water scarcity, the vulnerability of girls to early marriages, the allocation of work by gender roles and the wage gap between women and men. Esmeralda recommended UN agencies and Member States to promote gender equality in agriculture, to guarantee the participation of women and girls in decision-making on climate change and to work on the approach of new masculinities for promoting gender equality.
The event was attended by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Ms. Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes, and consequences.
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Rede Não Bata launches 26th June campaign on the right to participation
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In this edition the campaign "26th June: National Day of Education without Violence 2022" addressed the right to participation of children and adolescents. During 16 Days of Activism for the end of physical and psychological punishment against children and adolescents, the campaign implemented online and face-to-face activities throughout Brazil.
Guaranteeing the right to participate is one of the main lines of action of Rede Não Bata Eduque, and one of the pillars of Positive Education, a methodology that privileges dialogue and affection in the relationship between children, adolescents and adults. A group of young mobilisers, composed of Israel, Eloísa and Rebeca, plays a central role in all the Network's activities.
The campaign marks the anniversary of the Boy Bernardo Law, approved eight years ago, which prohibits physical and humiliating punishment of children and adolescents.
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Working children and adolescents in Peru talk with the Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations
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Esmeralda and Joselim (national delegates of the National Movement of Working Children and Adolescent Workers - MNNATSOP and Latin American delegates of MOLACNATs), have participated in a meeting with the Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations -Diana Miloslavich-, and the Vice-Minister of Vulnerable Populations -Grecia Rojas-. They presented and discussed their position as adolescent workers against the creation of a ministerial decree that proposed a list of dangerous and risky jobs for adolescents.
As MNNATSOP they maintain that this list of jobs is not in line with the reality of the country, and violates the right to work recognised in the Code for Children and Adolescents. The minister showed openness to dialogue and promised to follow up on Esmeralda and Joselim's observations.
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New Children's Ordinance inspired by the work of ANIA
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The Municipality of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile), has enacted an ordinance in 2022 that recognises children and adolescents as agents of change for sustainable development. As part of the implementation of the ordinance, children have been featured in videos promoting ancestral knowledge that cares for life. The municipality has begun a process of consultation with the children for defining how they already contribute and what more they can do for their island and its people. This ordinance is inspired by those enacted in Peru with the assistance of ANIA.
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Sharing experiences of comprehensive care for girls and women victims of sexual violence
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The webinar, entitled "Comprehensive care for girls and women victims of sexual violence", was held In the framework of the regional seminar "Analysis of sexual violence from an intersectionality approach". In this webinar Lyda Guarín from Save the Children, and Karen Campos, Coordinator of the gender unit of the Attorney General's Office of El Salvador, shared their experience in addressing sexual violence. They reflected on the forms of oppression on the lives and bodies of girls, adolescents and women legitimised in a patriarchal society.
In order to guarantee comprehensive care and a dignified life for girls and women victims of sexual violence, it must be a priority for States to comply with the recommendations issued by the CEDAW, the Convention of Belém do Pará and all the standards of international law for the protection of the human rights of girls, adolescents and women.
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