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)
Governance Structures
Organization of American States
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Children’s Institute
MERCOSUR Institute for Public Policies and Human Rights
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
Adopted subregional roadmaps to end violence against children
Roadmap to protect children against all forms of violence in the Caribbean
Inter-American Human Rights system
1. Human Rights Standards
American Convention on Human Rights
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 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