Regional consultation on corporal punishment against children and adolescents
Regional consultation on corporal punishment against children and adolescents / Reunion interamericana sobre castigo corporal de niños y adolescentes (Presentations available only in Spanish / Presentaciones solo disponible en Español)
Mexico city, Mexico, 25 and 26 April 2018 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children, in cooperation with the Government of Mexico, UNICEF, the Inter-American Children’s Institute, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and REDLAMYC convened an Inter-American Meeting on Corporal Punishment against Children and Adolescents. Held in Mexico City, Mexico the meeting gathered representatives from national governments, UN agencies, regional organizations, research institutions, civil society actors and children and young people.
Presentations
Session 1: Conceptual Framework on physical and humiliating punishment
Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children, presentation Spanish
Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, Commissioner and Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Spanish
Section 2: Legal prohibition of physical and humiliating punishment
Berenice Giannella, National Secretariat of the Rights of the Child, Brazil, Portuguese
María Elena Mizrahi, Uruguay Institute of Children and Adolescents Spanish Linea de tiempo
Victor Giorgi, General Director Inter-American Institute of Children and Adolescents, Organization of American States Spanish
Nora Schulman,Argentina Committee on the follow up to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (REDLAMYC)
Ingrid Martínez, Church of Jesus Christ of later days Saints GNRC Dominican Republic Spanish
Session 3: Public initiatives to end physical and humiliating punishment
Ricardo Bucio Mújica, Executive Secretary of the National System for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents, Mexico Spanish
Zaira Navas, Executive Director, National Council of Children and Adolescents, El Salvador Spanish
María del Carmen Santiago, General Director on Children and Adolescents, Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Peru Spanish
Lyda Guarin, Save the Children Regional Office Spanish
Priest Gustavo Rodríguez Vega, Coordinator of the Group Justice and Solidarity of the Latin American Episcopal Conference Spanish
The voices of children on public policies to end physical and humiliating punishment - Video
Sesson 4: Child participation
Sara Mezquita, child delegate
Yil Felipe, Child protection, Childfund Mexico
Víctor Giorgi, General Director Inter-American Institute of Children and Adolescents, Organization of American States
Fernando Gaal, Executive Secretary, National System for the Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents, Mexico Spanish Presentation of the online survey OPINNA
Session 5: Measuring physical and humiliating punishment
José Bergua Cavero, UNICEF Child protection regional adviser Spanish
Andolphe Eli Du Carmel Guillaume legal adviser Haiti Institute for the Wellbeing and Research on Children
Miguel Fleurijean , Haiti Ministry of Education
Section 6: Cultural change
Hyacinth Blair, Children's Affairs Division, Ministry Of Youth And Culture, Jamaica English
Keila Milagro Herrera, Dirección de Niñez, Adolescencia y Familia, Honduras Spanish
Víctor Giorgi, General Director Inter-American Institute of Children and Adolescents, Organization of American States
Alexandre Silveira De Souza, GNRC-BRASIL Spanish
Jorge Martínez Muñoz, Chilean Forum on Children and Adolescents (REDLAMYC)
Orther resources
Concept note /Nota conceptual Spanish
Program / Programa Spanish
Final declaration Spanish
Panama Estrategia Nacional Multisectorial de prevencion de Violencia Spanish