The Doctrine of Integral Protection and Current Family Law
(Submitted by the Delegation of Chile)

 

THE NINETEENTH PAN AMERICAN CHILD CONGRESS,

CONSIDERING:

1. That the family plays a key role for the protection and promotion of children’s rights;

2. That the fundamental need for domestic legislations to be consistent with an approach of promotion and integral protection of children’s rights has been recognized;

3. That operative paragraph 2 of resolution AG/RES. 1951 (XXXIII-O/03) adopted by the OAS General Assembly states: “… Further, to reaffirm support for the work of the Inter-American Children’s Institute as a specialized organization of the Organization of American States, which is entrusted with promoting the study of subjects relating to mothers, children, adolescents, and the family in the Americas and the adoption of measures for solving their problems, in particular its activities to assist member states in their efforts to promote the establishment of national children’s systems and the professionalization of the national authorities entrusted with the topic of children”;

4. The importance of counting on studies on the relationship between the Integral Protection Doctrine and the family from a right-based perspective, with a proper emphasis on those subject-matter areas that are more urgent for the promotion of the children’s right to live with their families;