Salud mental como derecho de niñas, niños y adolescentes víctimas de explotación sexual
Developed by a global Interagency Working Group, these guidelines provide updated, survivor-centred, and precise language to describe sexual exploitation and abuse of children — helping professionals, policymakers, and the media use words that protect rather than harm. These revised guidelines clarify definitions, reflect technological and legal developments, and promote respectful, inclusive, and consistent language thatRead more about Terminology Matters: Second Edition of the Terminology Guidelines[…]
In fulfilment of the mandate of the General Assembly of the OAS, Resolution AG/RES.1667 (XXIX-O/99) of 7 June 1999, the IIN, trough the Inter-American Cooperation Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children, presents the Report to the Secretary General of the OAS 2024, Addressing the Sexual ExploitationRead more about Addressing Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Region. Report to the Secretary General of the OAS 2024[…]
Special Rapporteur The title of Special Rapporteur is granted to people who work on behalf of the United Nations (UN) with a specific thematic mandate. Beyond the investigations related to their expertise, the rapporteurships follow up on the complaints of alleged victims of human rights violations. The mandate relating to the sale and sexualRead more about Visit of the special rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children to IIN[…]
The Issues Note N.° 1/23 of the Inter-American Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children reflects about the issue of sexual exploitation of children through forced marriage and/or common low relationships. Download
The Issues Note N.º 1/2021 of the Inter-American Coooperation Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children seeks to reflect on the possible interactions between the migration of unaccompanied children and sexual exploitation of children. Download
The Issues Note N.° 2 of the Inter-American Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children has the objective to widely diseminates the Presentations and the Final Document of the Fifth Subregional Meeting “Prevention, Protection and Restitution of Rights in the face of the Sexual Exploitation of Children (SEC): Experiences for Reflection” (Quito, 2019),Read more about Considering the Internet and Travel and Tourism as settings for SEC[…]
The Issues Note N° 1/19 of the Inter-American Cooperation Programme for the Prevention and Eradication of Sexual Exploitation, Smuggling of and Trafficking in Children presents some reflections on the sexual exploitation of children with a gender perspective, traying to make explicit the incidence of gender constructions in this problem. Download
In 2016 it was the 20th anniversary of the First World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Sweden, Stockholm); event which positioned the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children in the public eye for the first time and established the basis for the first plans of action to address the phenomenon in theRead more about FIFTEENTH REPORT TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE OAS (2018): Addressing Sexual Exploitation, Trafficking in and Smuggling of Children in CARICOM Member States.[…]