Weaving Childhood Networks presents its website "Latin Childhood: Observatory for monitoring the rights of girls, boys and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean."

INVITATION TO THE MEDIA

As part of the objectives of the Initiative Weaving Childhood Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean, is the contribution to the generation of significant changes in public, budgetary policies and the regulatory framework, as well as in social and cultural structures, for the benefit of children's rights; detecting that to generate the necessary transformation and analysis, it is imperative to have indicators from official and updated sources, as well as examples of best practices, comparative studies and tools that show the current situation of children and adolescents in the region. This is how the website "Latin Childhood: Observatory for monitoring the rights of girls, boys and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean" was born.

Latin Childhood, will be a Regional Observatory that provides quantitative and qualitative information on the degree of compliance with children's rights in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on the international framework of human rights, while providing guidance to solve the problems that affect children, promoting a movement for children and promoting intergenerational participation, aligning the efforts of donors, journalists, researchers, public servants and interested people, around children and youth in the Latin American region and Caribbean.

Below, we share some examples of the data that can be known and consulted in the Observatory in charge of the Initiative Weaving Childhood Networks:

• In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are about 188 million girls, boys and adolescents.
• In 2016, the intentional homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants was 296.5 for men between the ages of 15 and 29 in El Salvador and 167.4 for the same demographic in Honduras.
• In the month of March 2021 alone, there have been 18,890 encounters of unaccompanied migrant girls and boys with the United States border patrol, this represents an increase of almost 95% compared to the same month 4 years ago.
• The 46% of boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 12 in the Latin American region live in homes that are not connected to the Internet.

Those who make up the Observatory are specialists in developing innovative methodologies, involving various actors, to address the challenges faced by children and strengthen institutional responses regarding the rights of girls, boys and adolescents. The selection of indicators to be used by the site "Latin Childhood: Observatory for monitoring the rights of girls, boys and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean" will be based on several criteria. Mainly, that the data comes from a reliable source; It is recent, available and consistent for a large number of countries, reflecting an outcome or measure of child welfare, it is easily understandable to the public with an unequivocal interpretation.

On the occasion of the launch of the Regional Observatory, we cordially invite the media and / or interested persons to participate in the International Seminar What are the challenges and opportunities to monitor the rights of Latino children? April 2021, starting at 11:00 a.m., Mexico. We will have the presence of international experts and activists in the protection of children's rights. We attach complete program ”.

The broadcast will be available live at the following links: facebook.com/ollin.tv , youtube.com/ollintv

Event registration: http://bit.ly/infancialatina

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