San Salvador, El Salvador. – 12 and 13 August 2014

In preparation for the XXI Pan American Child Congress to be held in Brasilia, Brazil on December, the Department of International Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN) and the Global Movement for Children of Latin America and the Caribbean (MMI – LAC) facilitated the dialogue with civil society representatives from Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Netherlands / Aruba, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, plus 7 representatives of the OAS, IIN and El Salvador.

This forum that took place from 12 to 13 August at the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador, offered a space in which civil society participants discussed and compiled their recommendations on combating violence against children in the context of the 25 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, juvenile criminal justice and sexual exploitation.

Ronalth Ivan Ochaeta, Representative of the General Secretariat of the OAS in El Salvador, Zaira Navas, Vice President of the Directing Council of the IIN and Executive Director of the National Council for Childhood and Adolescence (CONNA) and Beat Rohr, Regional Director of Save the Children International , Secretariat of the Global Movement for Children of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC-MMI), welcomed the representatives of civil society referring to the importance of this dialogue of civil society, which will provide their views on childhood , and their recommendations for the consideration of all Member States at the XXI Pan American Child Congress.