Americas

The mandate is actively promoting children’s engagement at regional level, with the goal of bridging the gap between children and decision makers. During the Forum of the Countries of Latin America and the Caribbean on Sustainable Development 2021, the mandate enabled the involvement of children representing a regional adolescent-led network focusing on gender-based violence. Children’s interventions influenced the mandate’s meaningful participation strategy for the LAC region, including amplifying children’s actions to address different forms of violence, actively looking to include children in high level decision making moments, and bridging active children with decision makers and civil society organizations.   

COVID-19 Report - ECLAC - UNICEF - Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children Violence against children and adolescents in the time of COVID-19  

Construir un futuro mejor: acciones para fortalecer la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible. Cuarto informe sobre el progreso y los desafíos regionales de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe (Español)

Building forward better: Action to strengthen the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Fourth report on regional progress and challenges in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)

Governance Structures

Organization of American States

   Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

   Inter-American Children’s Institute

CARICOM

MERCOSUR

   MERCOSUR Institute for Public Policies and Human Rights 

SICA

Political Declarations

Declaration of Montevideo - Spanish

Call for action Migrants 2nd Forum Sippinna  - Spanish

Meeting Niñosur - Spanish

OAS/IIN Resolution on Violence against Children, Barbados - CD/RES. 08 (92-R/17)- (2017) English Spanish

Acta XXVIII Reunion de Altas Autoridades en Derechos Humanos del Mercosur - 25-26 de Mayo 2016 - Spanish

Statement of the second meeting of ministers of Education of the Community of States of Latin American and Caribbean -(CELAC) - (April 2016) English Spanish

Final Resolution XXI Pan American Congress on Children and Adolescents -  (Dec. 2014) English Spanish

Declaration on violence against and exploitation of children (May 2014)- Organization of American States

Declaración emitida por La Vigésima Tercera Reunión del Consejo para el Desarrollo Humano y Social (COHSOD XXIII) sobre el abuso sexual de los niños en la región del Caribe

Kingston Declaration

Declaración de Santo Domingo - Encuentro de Seguimiento al Estudio de Naciones Unidas sobre Violencia contra los niños

Declaración de Buenos Aires

La Declaración de Bridgetown y el Programa de Acción para Combatir el Abuso Sexual Infantil en el Caribe

Adopted subregional roadmaps to end violence against children

Roadmap to protect children against all forms of violence in the Caribbean

Hoja de Ruta Centroamericana sobre Violencia contra los niños (Central American Roadmap on Violence against Children)

Hoja de Ruta para contribuir a la realización del derecho de los niños, las niñas y adolescentes a la protección contra todo tipo de violencia en Sudamérica (South American Roadmap on Violence against Children)

Inter-American Human Rights system   

1. Human Rights Standards

American Convention on Human Rights

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( Protocol of Salvador)

Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights to Abolish the death penalty

Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture

Inter-American Convention on Enforced Disappearance of Persons

Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women

Inter-American Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities

Inter-American Convention on International Traffic in Minors

2. Human Rights Bodies

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

 Latest decision concerning children's rights -Advisory Opinion 21/14 Rights and guarentees of children in the context of migration and / or in need of international protection      

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

        IACHR Thematic reports

Towards the effective fulfillment of children´s rights: National Protection Systems 2017

Violence, children and organized crime 2015

The Right of Boys and Girls to a family 2013

Juvenile justice and human rights in the Americas 2011

Report on corporal punishment and human rights of children and adolescents 2009

Strategic Developments

Mexico Declaration on protection from corporal punishment and cyberbullying Spanish

South American regional meeting for the follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against children, Asunción, Paraguay, April 28 – 29, 2011

Central American regional meeting for the follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against Children, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, December 1-2, 2011

Caribbean Sub-regional meeting for the follow-up to the UN Study on Violence against Children, Kingston, Jamaica, May 14 – 15, 2012

 
Analytical studies

Study on the Follow-up to the implementation of the UN Study o Violence against Children for the Caribbean

Mapeo Región América del Sur Implementación de las Recomendaciones del Estudio Mundial sobre la Violenciacontra los Niños y Niñas

Mapeo Estado de situación de los países de Centroamérica, México, Cuba, y República Dominicana en relación con la violencia contralos niños, niñas y adolescentes en seguimiento al Estudio de Naciones Unidas sobre la Violencia contra los Niños

 

Cross Regional roundtables joint statements

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2019)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2018)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2017)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2016)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2015)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2014)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2013)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2012)

Joint Statement round table of regional organisations and institutions on the protection of children from all forms of violence (2011)