Lanzamiento del proyecto «Protagonistas» en la Terminal de Ómnibus de Asunción
WITH BROADCAST REQUESTED
AND COVERAGE
Children and Teenagers
Starring Project
Tuesday March 22
10:00 am - Bus Terminal
On Tuesday 22 of March at 10:00 am. will be presented the project \\\\\\\"Protagonistas – La participación de niños, niñas y adolescentes en la construcción de sociedades más inclusivas y protectoras\\\\\\\" in the cultural space within the Terminal de Ómnibus of Asunción.
The aim of this project is the involvement of children and adolescents in the construction of a more democratic, inclusive and more capacity society to prevent and respond to violations of the rights of children and adolescents. This expect that children and adolescents to participate in a strengthened with capabilities that enable them to exercise their right to participate in a leading role, influential and institutionalized in the public spaces of decision-making at local, national and international in order to improve public policies to protect them.
The organization leading the project and represents a set of national and local organizations are Save the Children, with support from the European Union. The project has an implementation at three levels: regional level in the field of Latin America nationwide in El Salvador, Paraguay and Peru, and locally in the communal areas of each country. In the case of Paraguay in Asuncion Committee, Committee of Villa Elisa, CONNATs and the National Platform for Children and Adolescents.
In Paraguay, the Coordinator for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (CDIA) coordinates the project at national level and with Global Children Callescuela implement it locally. This initiative has the active participation of organizations of children and adolescents in these countries and REDNNYAS.
Through project seeks to promote active citizenship, conscious of their rights and responsibilities, with the capacity to establish a proactive and constructive dialogue. The activities will be conducted with children and adolescents, organized in the area of the Bus Station of Asuncion, the Mercado de Abasto, in the municipality of Villa Elisa and Asuncion, as well as the National Platform for Children and Adolescents.
For more information:
Heve Otero (0981) 400 712 (CDIA)
Lidia Ramos (0984) 278-247 (Plataforma Nacional de NNA)
Richard Deren: (0981) 24 24 27 (Comunicación CDIA)
Let \'s boat agaisnt discrimination
Concluded the project \"all in a Boat\", the aim of the project was to train youth groups and young leaders in techniques to help identify and combat discriminatory practices through experiential and reflective techniques.
This project was conducted in four countries: Hungary and Malta in Europe, Mozambique in Africa and Paraguay in South America. The project began as an initiative of the EC-PEC private organization in Budapest - Hungary. In our country, the Coordinating Committee for the Rights of Children and Adolescents - CDIA, a coalition that brings together 28 civil society organizations working for the rights of children and adolescents has been the institution of reference in carrying out the project everyone in a Boat (All in a Boat)
Why everyone on a boat? The project is named in allusion to the phrase Anglophone \"All in a boat\" that points to the idea of all for the same cause, as the expression in Castilian \"all pulling the same cart\" or also called \"all in the same Train. \" It also refers to equal or the same condition or in the same direction. To experience the full force and the symbolism of the sentence, the national training workshop was held monitors on a boat, the Cruise Paraguay was the scene of the first day of work.
The methodology
The project used the experience of situations many times humorous, others of great depth and significance and then encourage reflection of adolescents about discrimination in its many facets. These techniques evoked experiential situations experienced or known by teenagers, which made everything work situations is based on the context in which they live.
Results
In a first stage, trained 26 young people and adolescents as facilitators who then in turn replicated the experience with teens and their groups amounting to a total of 198 youths who have been trained in techniques antidiscriminativas. The project involved groups of children, adolescents and young people in Asunción, Yaguarón, Caacupé, Villa Hayes, Caaguazú, Encarnación, San Ignacio, Mbaracayú and New Italy.
Groups involved in the different stages of the project were in total 12:
- 8 Municipal and Departmental Committees rights of children and adolescents (made up of teenagers and children 10 to 17 years old) from 6 different departments of the country and the capital
- The National Federation of Secondary Students, FENAES
- The Federation of Neighborhood of Paraguay, FEDEM
- Sounds of my land, Caaguazú
- Rural College Moisés Bertoni, Mbaracajú National Park
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(Agreement No: 2009-3509 / 001-001) Project \"all in a boat\" Training to learn anti discriminative practices |
Release from CDIA to the events of Criminal Tacumbú
September 23, DÍA INTERNACIONAL CONTRA LA EXPLOTACIÓN SEXUAL Y LA TRATA DE NIÑOS, NIÑAS Y ADOLESCENTES and the events in THE CRIMINAL of Tacumbú, there is much REPUDIATION. La Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia - CDIA, declares the following: - CONDEMNS the events of recent days in the Criminal Tacumbú and that has meant the commission of crimes of sexual exploitation and utilization of Child Pornography, at least two teenagers, IN A STATE INSTITUTION. - Blames fundamentally to the Ministry of Justice and Labor to establish conditions that guarantee rights, control and supervision of the activities taking place within the prison. - Draws attention of institutions in general, and state institutions in particular, to prevent, identify, pursue and process the necessary judicial and administrative mechanisms for combating crimes of trafficking and sexual exploitation. - Asked the Ministry of Justice and Labor to investigate in depth the events and penalize those responsible for it, establishing mechanisms to prevent such actions do not recur. - Urges the Ministry of Jusitica and Labour to train the systems human resources on issues of trafficking and sexual exploitation, and prevention mechanisms and identification of crime. - Provide victims with medical support services, socio-psychological. - Urges on churches to abandon double standards and assume their responsibilities in the denunciation of the crimes referred to trafficking and sexual exploitation, according to the rules of the Code of Children and Adolescents, Criminal Code and international copyright laws.
Statement of disowning to the fact of 13-year-old boy torture
Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia - CDIA, group of 28 civil society organizations working on the rights of children and teenagers, REPUDIATE THE FACT OF TORTURE occurred in Police Station 24 of Bañado Sur, Asuncion, released by the media. We express:
We reiterate our disowning to this fact of torture and ill-treatment against a 13-year-old boy.
We demand that the State takes all measures to investigate this incident and penalize the author or authors.
-ASK protect the integrity and dignity of the victim in this case as referred to in the various national and international legal instruments, providing psychosocial assistance.
-URGE guarantors of rights bodies (Ministry of Interior, Public Ministry, Ombudsman, National Secretariat for Children and Adolescents) to act with the necessary force to address and prevent instances of torture and abuse against children and adolescents, particularly in police and in any other space.
-REQUEST the National Parliament to advance in the creation of an independent national mechanism for the prevention of torture, as commanded by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, of which the Paraguayan State is a part.
Asuncion, October 14, 2010
The visit of Susana Villarán to Paraguay
The Expert of Committee on the Rights of the Child United Nations, Susana de la Puente Villarán and currently mayor of the city of Lima - Peru, will be officially visiting our country between 18 and 21 October this year. The purpose of the visit is to influence state bodies with different central axes of the observations of the Committee on the Rights of Children in Paraguay, launched in February 2010.
The expert Susana Villarán has already marked an agenda with Magistrates of the Judiciary, the Parliamentary Front for Children, the Minister for Children and Adolescents Liz Torres, as well as conversations with representatives of civil society, organizations of Children and Adolescents and college students.
Importantly, Susana Villarán visit to our country is one of the last as the expert of the Committee on the Rights of the Child United Nations, before confirming his position as Mayor of the city of Lima, it was elected in this month October, during the municipal elections held in Peru.
