81st Anniversary of the IIN

On June 9, 2008, the Inter-American Children’s Institute, Specialized Organization of the OAS in matters of children and adolescents, celebrates its 81 years of existence. In 1927, a day like today was founded in Montevideo city, the then called “Instituto Internacional Americano de Protección a la Infancia”, under the leadership of Dr. Luis Morquio.

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Link to the Founding Act

The Office of the Director General of the IIN as Department of the OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs

The Office of the Director General of the IIN was appointed as Department of the OAS Secretariat for Legal Affairs within the restructuring undertaken by the OAS Secretary General, which provides it the functions to represent the Secretary General, the Assistant Secretary General, and the Secretary for Legal Affairs before the  political bodies of the OAS, on missions, at international meetings, and at other events dealing with matters in its area of competence.

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Presentation of publication Public Policies and Children’s Human Rights

On May 15, 2008, at the headquarters of the IIN was presented the publication Public Policies and Children’s Human Rights. It is the result of a joint effort between the Inter-American Children’s Institute of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Cooperation Agreement between the Inter-American Children’s Institute and the Ibero-American General Secretariat

On April 30 at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN) and the Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB, by its Spanish acronym), signed a cooperation agreement for the development of activities aimed at promoting the capacity building for implementing public policies regarding children and adolescents in the region.

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Inter-American Meeting on the “Exchange of experience and programs on Child Care”

Concluded successfully the Inter-American Meeting on the “Exchange of experience and Programs on Child Care”, that was held 24-25 April this year in the city of Queretaro, Mexico. You will find a special section with the final report of the event with access to the documents and the presentations.

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Annual Report of the Inter-American Children’s Institute to the OAS General Assembly

The Director General of the IIN, María de los Dolores Aguilar, presented in Washington on March 12, 2008, the Annual Report of the Inter-American Children’s Institute to the OAS Permanent Council, detailing major achievements and progress made by the Institute in 2007. See more

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Institutional Technical Guidelines

The Inter-American Children’s Institute, on the basis of its mission, contributes with the authorities of the different government powers and various institutions through the construction of comprehensive guidelines on legislation, public policies and their use in favor of children and adolescents. In this regard, it has begun developing Institutional Technical Guidelines (OTI), as a mechanism of attention, analysis and reflection on the various casuistries and that for their widely incidence are considered as paradigmatic situations. They are developed based on the rules of the Inter-American system and international levels, especially the reference to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the American Convention on Human Rights.

Confident that OTI represent an area of participatory construction, the IIN will appreciate your opinion, as well as the receipt of situations that might consider guidance for the States in the hemisphere.

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Child Migration

A sensitive issue that has taken relevance in the social agenda is the migration of children and adolescents. Migrant children in the region are exposed to a series of high-risk situations that restrict the exercise of their rights, undermining their dignity even to their own lives.

For the IIN, child migration, revised from the rights approach, the family and community perspective and democratic governance, is a subject that must be permanently analyzed, given the fast increase and devastating consequences of the matter.

Knowing the different edges from which the process is interpreted, represents an opportunity for decision-making and the efficient action by the authorities in monitoring and implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child.