ANNUAL REPORTINTER-AMERICAN

CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE

2012

43rd General Assembly of the Organization of American States

CELEBRATION OF THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IIN

On Friday, 8 June, the commemoration of the eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN) took place at its headquarters in Montevideo, Uruguay.

1. Ms Tracy Betts (IDB), (Honorary Consul of Nicaragua), Ms Belela Herrera (Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Mr Enrique Blanco (OAS Country Office in Uruguay), Mr Cassio Luiseli (Mexican Ambassador to Uruguay).

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32. Mr John Biehl (OAS Representative in Uruguay), Ms Gloria Lozano (President

of the Directing Council of the IIN).3. Mr Cassio Luiselli (Mexican Ambassador to Uruguay), Mr Federico Peraza

(Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Ms Belela Herrera (Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Mr Milton Romani (Uruguay's Permanent Representative to the Permanent Council of the OAS), Mr John Biehl (OAS Representative in Uruguay).

MANAGEMENT MODEL

There are three specific working groups, corresponding to each of the three priority workstreams in the Action Plan, which include the states that volunteered to join them: each of the working groups is coordinated by one of the IIN’s areas.

Natural DisastersMember states:

BrazilCanadaHaitiHondurasPanama

Juvenile Criminal LiabilityMember states:

Antigua and BarbudaArgentina BrazilChileEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHondurasMexicoPanamaParaguayPeru

Early ChildhoodMember states:

Argentina ColombiaCosta RicaUnited StatesGuatemalaHaitiHondurasMexicoPanamaParaguaySurinameUruguay

RESULTS IN EACH OF THE IIN’S WORK AREAS

Technical guidelines regarding the coordination of comprehensive policy for early childhood applied

Basic indicators menu and information management system

Governing bodies for children, in coordination with other areas of the states selected, gain enhanced capabilities and instruments for the management of their comprehensive policies for early childhood.

Implementation of a rights monitoring system for children, in accordance with international requirements.

Comprehensive Protection of Early Childhood

Child Participation

• Website www.nuestravozacolores.org

• Facebook account

• YouTube channel

• Technical assistance

• Training

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Inter-American Cooperation Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, and Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children

Work Area 1: Compilation and update of information regarding CSEC in the region, to be made available to states party.

Launching of the updated version of ANNAObservaInter-American network of technical liaison officers

• ANNAObserva newsletters• Publication of Good Practices IV• Twelfth Report to the Secretary General: Restoration of the Rights of SEC Victims

Work Area 2: Generation of information and knowledge on the subject of CSEC, which will aid States Party in the design and implementation of their policies and action in addressing this problem.

• Semi-distance course on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.

• Technical assistance to the state of Paraguay.• Technical assistance to the state of Chile.• Technical assistance to the state of Uruguay for the production of

its CRC Optional Protocol report on the sale, prostitution and use of children in pornography.

Work Area 3: Training human resources and providing specialized technical assistance to States Party.

Adolescent Criminal Liability Systems

Position paper on the matter of the liability of adolescents in conflict with criminal law

CD/RES 03 (87-R/12)Juvenile Justice System

Mainstreaming issues such as the importance of prevention, the need for interinstitutional and multistakeholder coordination and others.

A key resolution in support of regional work in this field was unanimously adopted

International Child Abduction

• A working guide for Central Authority operators• A glossary of terms • A practical toolkit

Child Rights in Natural Disaster Risk and Emergencies

•Systematization and dissemination of information regarding child rights in disaster risk management•Case Studies•Policy framework for the promotion and protection of children’s

rights in disaster risk management. Guidelines and strategic recommendations•Strategy for the promotion and dissemination of the Political Position Paper

Communications and Information

• The permanent update of information and consolidation of the IIN’s website (www.iin.oea.org), which receives an average 100,000 visitors a month.

• Support and follow-up to other websites produced by the IIN (Nuestra voz a colores, BADAJ, AnnaObserva, ICA, and others).

• The production of regular and special electronic newsletters. • Meeting in Panama with journalists and the media.• Design and dissemination of communications output

and multimedia material

COOPERATION

Promotion and Protection of Children's Rights in the Inter-American System

The states of Colombia, Guatemala and Jamaica participate in the execution of the following areas

1- Public policy for children 2- Birth registration and the right to identity 3- Child participation 4- Child rights and the media

Project with theCanadian InternationalDevelopment Agency

Promotion and Protection of Children's Rights in the Inter-American System

Project Conclusion

• For the conclusion in each state, missions were carried out, led by the Director General of the IIN, Ms María de los Dolores Aguilar, who formally delivered the results of the project and made the necessary proposals for the sustainability of the components to the representatives of the governing bodies for children.

Colombia

Guatemala

Jamaica

Programme for the Promotion and Defence of the Human Rights of the Children of the Americas

1- Child participation 2- Promotion and support for the development of Ombudsman

Offices for Children3- Unaccompanied migrant children

3- Unaccompanied migrant children

• Material in support of child care

FINANCIAL REPORT

Allocated Funds 2012 Amount in USD

Regular Fund – Obj. 1 705,800

Regular Fund – Obj. 2 to 9 308,200

Regular Fund 1,014,000Specific Fund 297,173Total Funds 1,311,173

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