2023-04-28 10:52:30
The independent expert, former president and current member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child of the United Nations (UN), Luis Pederneralectured in the city of Paraná in the Pan American Conference for the Social Rights of Children and Adolescents and Doctrine
Franciscana, where he stated that the rights of this sector “are being increasingly threatened, diminished, ridiculed and ignored.”
“They are silencing their defense and freedom of expression, their civil and political rights, they are constantly discriminated against,” indicated and called for “commitment and think about a more promising future”. flint developed a master class in front of some 300 magistrates, magistrates, civil servants and experts and experts from several American countries and Argentine provinces.
In the Provincial Convention Center (CPC) of the capital of Entre Ríos They meet until this Friday to discuss the social rights of children and adolescents. The UN official highlighted the Ombudsmen for minors as “the voice of those who do not allow them to put their voice at stake”, within justice systems that “are not in a position to be places” so that they “resort to claim their rights”.
That’s why called to “adapt the systems to make them friendlythat they understand what can happen when children demand economic, social and cultural rights”. “The deprivation of liberty -he continued- it is still the first measure of the judges and has to be the last resort and for as short a time as possible.
In addition, Pedernera pointed out that there are “painful challenges and realities” and that autonomy and its rights are “increasingly threatened, challenged, diminished, ridiculed and ignored.”
The UN “is alarmed: in all regions of the world the condition of the child as a subject of law is questioned, under the protection of ‘religious issues’ and the argument of ‘family values’ and ‘traditions’,
silencing their defense and freedom of expression,” he said.
In this sense, he asserted that there is “government negligence” in Latin Americawhich causes minors to “oscillate between poverty and criminalization.” «The family is responsible but the State is a predecessor in that responsibilityand it has to generate conditions so that they can grow in
a family environment without violence and respecting their voice and their rights”, the UN member completed the idea.
During another section, Pedernera commented that Being a child “is already a condition for ‘being bad in life’, and that existence becomes worse” when “it is a migrant, Afro-descendant, a woman, with a disability or diverse, they have greater inequality and inequity”. The expert on the rights of children and adolescents called for “more political and social participation of children, such as the movement of secondary students” since their forms “are new, fresher, diverse and uncontaminated by the negativity of adults.”
Lastly, he pointed out that “rhetoric is good but it is not enough”, and words without actions “are passive matters”and called to “commit and think about a more promising future with the voice and presence of boys and girls and an active society.”
Telam Agency
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