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Is the Inter-American Children’s Institute’s official website on participation. It emerged as an online area where organized children and representatives of the various States can engage in discussion and be consulted about subjects they are interested in.
Participation:
Children’s right to participation requires that the “adult world” and its institutions provide opportunities and practice every day and at every level. If children are to have an impact on public policy, space should be made available for opinion and consultation, through democratic representation. Advisory or Consultative Councils are bodies that several countries in the region have implemented for the purpose of promoting child and adolescent participation in issues that affect them.
Amongst the recommendations issuing from the First Pan American Forum (Peru, 2009)is the creation of consultative councils at local, regional and Inter-American levels. In the words of the adolescents themselves:
“Consultative Councils should be created at local, regional, national and Inter-American levels, so that the words, opinions, needs and proposals of children, including children with special abilities and needs, are included in the design and implementation of public policies to be executed by the highest authorities.”
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