Agenda - Latin American Regional Consultation

United Nations Study on Violence against Children

CONSULTATION FOR LATIN AMERICA

MONDAY, 30 MAY
Place: Centro de Docencia y Capacitación Pediátrica, Dr. Carlos A.
Gianantonio, Sociedad Argentina de Pediatría. Salguero 1244, Buenos
Aires, Argentina

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:00 OPENING CEREMONY
- Alicia Margarita Kirchner, Argentinian Minister for Social Development
- Daniel Arroyo, Secretary for Social Policy and Human Development,
Argentina
- Rima Salah, Executive Director, UNICEF
- Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Independent Expert appointed by the United
Nations Secretary General to lead the Study on Violence against Children
- Carlos Felipe Martínez, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Argentina
- Roberto Garretón, UN High Commission for Human Rights
- José Antonio Pagés, Representative of the Panamerican and World Health
Organisation in Argentina (PAHO/WHO)
- Susana Villarán, Member of the Interamerican Commission for Human
Rights
 Mary Beloff, Member of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Study

10:00 -10:30 United Nations Study on Violence against Children

 Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Independent Expert appointed by the United
Nations Secretary General to lead the Study

Chair: Leonardo Franco, Subsecretary of Latin American Policy for the
Argentinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Commerce and Culture

10:30 - 10:45 REFRESHMENTS

10:45 - 11:45 RESULTS OF THE NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS WITH
CHILDREN

 Presentation by delegation of Argentinian children

11:45 - 12:45 VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN LATIN AMERICA. OVERVIEW

 Research Centre CISALVA, Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Chair: Leonardo Franco, Subsecretary of Latin American Policy for the
Argentinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Commerce and Culture

12:45 - 14:15 LUNCH

14:15 – 15:15 FUNCTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE INTERAMERICAN
SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM VIOLENCE

 14:15- 14:35 Susana Villarán, Member of the Interamerican Commision
of Human Rights

 14:35-14:55 Santiago Cantón, Executive Secretary of the Interamerican
Commission of Human Rights

 14:55- 15:15 Preguntas

Chair: Virginia Murillo, Defence for Children International, Costa Rica, and
and member of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Study

15:15 -16:00 NEITHER WAR NOR PEACE. Luke Dowdney, VIVA RIO and
member of the NGO Advisory Panel for the Study

Introduction: Paulo Sergio Pinheiro

16:00- 16:15 REFRESHMENTS

16:15- 17:15 END CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

 16:15-16:35 Hitting Children Is Wrong and the Law Must Say So – Now.
Peter Newell, Coordinator for the Global Initiative to End Corporal
Punishment

 16:35-16:55 Progress in combatting corporal and psychological
punishment of children in Latin America Denise Struckenbruck, Save The
Children

o 16:55-17:15 Questions

Chair: Mario Viquez, Director of Área de Derechos de Niñez y
Adolescencia de la Defensoría de los Habitantes de
Costa Rica

TUESDAY, 31 MAY
PLACE: Palacio San Martín, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de
Argentina, Arenales 761, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

9:00-10:30 POLICIES ON HUMAN SECURITY AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO
STATES TO ELIMINATE VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

 9:00-9:15 Policies on security and rights and the rights of the child in
Latin America. Roberto Garretón, UN High Commission for Human Rights
o 9:15-9:30 Questions

 9:30-9:45 Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
on violence against children in Latin America Norberto Liwski, Vicepresident
of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
o 9:45-10:00 Questions

 10:00-10:15 Recommendations of the Iberian Federation of Ombudsmen
(FIO). Eduardo Mondino, Defensor de Pueblo, Argentina
o 10:15-10:30 Questions

Chair: Silvia Aguilar, Vice-Minister of Governance, El Salvador

10:30- 13:00 OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN

 10:30-10:45 National security policies and their repercussions for
children. Rut Diamint, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

 10:45- 11:00 The youth gang phenomenon in Central America,
consequences for children and youths. Ignacio Álvarez, from the
Interamerican Commission on Human Rights office of the Rapporteur on
Children

 11:00-11:15 Questions

Chair: Victoria Marina Velásquez de Avilés, Magistrate form the Supreme
Court of Justice and member of the Juvenile Court of El Salvador

11:15- 12:15 REFRESHMENT AND DOCUMENTARY “Central
America, condemned to emigrate”

 12:15-12:30 Irregular migration. Gabriela Rodríguez, UN Rapporteurfor
Migrants

 12:30-12:45 Human trafficking in Latin America. Eugenio Ambrosi,
Regional Representative for the International Organisation for Migration

o 12:45-13:00 Questions

Chair: Águeda Marín, International Organisation for Migration

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

14:30-15:50 OTHER FORMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN II

 14:30-14:50 HIV-AIDS, gender violence. Gabriela Hamilton, Director of
the National Programme for AIDs, Argentina
o 14:50-15:10 Questions

 15:10-15:30 Racial discrimination: a different approach to analysing
youth violence in Latin America. Romero Rodríguez, Secretary of the
Strategic Alliance of Afro-descendents in Latin America and the Caribbean
o 15:30-15:50 Questions

Chair: María Eugenia Villarreal, ECPAT Internacional

15:50-17:30 PARTICIPATING IN THE FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE I

 15:50-16:05 Experiences of “de-internment” of children and work with
families in Chile. Delia del Gatto, Director of the National Service for Minors,
Chile
o 16:05-16:20 Questions

16:20-16:40 REFRESHMENTS

 16:40-17:30 Initiatives for reducing violence in the city of Bogotá, 2001-
2003

16:40-16:55 New models of citizen cohabitation and participation. Rocío
Londoño, Professor of Sociology at the National University at Bogotá

16:55-17:10 Combatting sexual and interfamily violence. María Cristina
Hurtado, Delegate of the Defence for Children and the Family, Colombia
o 17:10-17:30 Questions

Chair: Juan Miguel Petit, UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children,
Child Prostitution and the use of Children in Pornography.

17:30-18:30 PARTICIPATING IN THE FIGHT AGAINST VIOLENCE II

 17:30-17:45 The initiative to combat violence against children and youth
in la Favela do Maré in Rio de Janeiro and in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Jailson
Souza e Silva, Professor of Geography at the University of Federal
Fluminenese and General Coordinator of the Observatorio de Favelas, Rio
de Janerio
o 17:45-18:00 Questions

 18:00-18:15 Violence and children who work in the street. Experiences
from the city of Coronel Oviedo, Paraguay. Leticia Friedmann de Oggero,
Director of Education and Culture, Childhood and Adolescence, Municipality
of Coronel Oviedo
o 18:15-18:30 Questions

Chair: Juan Miguel Petit, UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children,
Child Prostitution and the use of Children in Pornography.

WEDNESDAY, 1 JUNE
Place: Palacio San Martín, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Argentina
Arenales 761, Buenos Aires, Argentina

9:00-10:30 GOVERNMENT POLICIES

 9:00-9:15 Early warning systems in the health sector. nés González
García, Minister for Health and the Environment, Argentina

 9:15-9:30 Policies for childhood and social development. Leonor
Calderón, Minister of Social Development, Panama

 9:30-9:45 San José Declaration 2004 “For the Protection of Children
and Adolescence from Violence, Trafficking and any form of Exploitation.
Elizabeth Patiño, Viceminister of Youth, Childhood and Elderly people,
Bolivia.

 9:45-10:00 Prevention and protection of children from abuse and sexual
exploitation. Nilmario Miranda, Secretary of Human Rights, Brazil.

o 10:00-10:30 Questions

Chair: Luis Eduardo Duhalde, Secretary of Human Rights, Argentina

10:30-12:45 PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

 10:30-11:00 GROUP I. Interventions for the prevention of violence
against children

o 11:00-11:30 Questions

11:30-11:45 REFRESHMENTS

 11:45- 12:15 GROUP II. Restitution of rights and rehabilitation of victims

o 12:15-12:45 Questions

12:45-14:15 LUNCH

14:15-16:15 PRESENTATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS II

 14:15-14:45 GROUP III. Policies, programmes, resources and services

o 14:45-15:15 Questions

 15:15-15:45 GROUP IV. Research and monitoring

o 15:45-16:15 Questions

16:15-16:30 REFRESHMENTS

16:30-17:00 AND AFTER THE CONSULTATION, THEN WHAT?

 Amaya Gillespie, Director of the Secretary General’s Study on Violence
against Children

17:00-17:30 CLOSE

 Jorge Taiana, Vice-Chancellor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International
Commerce and Culture, Argentina
 Luis Eduardo Duhalde, Secretary of Human Rights, Argentina
 Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Independent Expert appointed by the UN
Secretary General to lead the Study on Violence against Children.
 Nils Kastberg, Regional Director of UNICEF for Latin America and the
Caribbean
 Roberto Garretón, UN High Commission for Human Rights
 Santiago Cantón, Executive Secretary of the Interamerican Commission
for Human Rights
 José Antonio Pagés, Representative of the Panamerican and World
Health Organisation in Argentina (PAHO/WHO)
 Luz María Sequeira, Regional Secretariat for Latin America and the
Caribbean for the Study on Violence against Children

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