Who joined for the campaign?
Weaving Childhood Networks in Latin America and the Caribbean: supports 33 national networks and civil society organizations (CSOs) that work for the rights of girls, boys and adolescents in 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Weaving Childhood Networks promotes the creation of spaces where all the actors involved reflect on the extent to which the actions taken by the States - from the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to the present - have allowed a change real in the quality of life of girls, boys and adolescents in the region and thereby contribute to the continuous generation of significant changes in public, budgetary policies and the regulatory framework.
Also, through organizational strengthening, it seeks to influence at the social, political, national, intergovernmental level and before regional and international organizations to advance in the guarantee of the rights of children in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- FB @tejiendoredesinfancia
- IG @tejiendoredesinfancia
- Tw @tejiendoredesi
Wagner Legacy: the most important of Mexican wrestling. Founded by Dr. Wagner Señor in 1960 and preserved by Dr. Wagner Jr. for 35 years, which are precisely April 26. His heirs, Son of Dr. Wagner Jr. and Galeno del Mal are responsible for taking his legend to the future so that new generations of children and adolescents can know and enjoy it.
Look for them on Facebook: Official Wagner Legacy / Dr wagner fan page / Son of wagner / Galeno del Mal
Instagram: @legadowagneroficial / @reywagner_oficial / @galenodmal / @hijodrwagner / @WagnerJrOficial / @hijodewagner / @ legadowagnerof1 /
Why join efforts between Mexican wrestling and the Tejiendo Redes Infancia Initiative?
Campaign objective:
- Spread the message of non-violence against girls, boys and adolescents
- Childhood empowerment
- Reinforce the figure of fighters as agents of change in society
- Place Mexican wrestling characters as protectors of justice and nonviolence
- Call to action to eliminate behaviors that violate children's rights
- Position an Ollin TV as a medium specialized in children's rights
Why on this date?
The day of the boy and the girl in Mexico is celebrated on April 30 since 1924, while Universal Children's Day is celebrated every year on November 20. A day of celebration for the progress made, but above all it is a day to draw attention to the situation of children, raise awareness of children's rights and make people aware of the importance of working day by day for their well-being and growth. (UNICEF)
About Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse
No type of violence against girls and boys is justifiable
Abuse is considered to be all those actions (or omissions) that threaten the physical and emotional integrity of children and adolescents; A problem that is exercised with greater incidence in the most intimate and close spaces, in contradiction to the need to promote affective attachments and protection in the family, school and community. Emotional or psychological aggression is more installed, followed by physical punishment and sexual abuse. (Inter-American Institute for Boys, Girls and Adolescents).
The pandemic and quarantine situation has aggravated the incidence of cases of violence and abuse towards girls, boys and adolescents in family settings and on social networks. The different socioeconomic tensions, anxiety or frustration and overcrowding are factors that have increased abuse, under private impunity or 'closed doors'. (IIN)
Triggering figures
- In Mexico, From January 1 to April 11, 2021, 2,720 children and adolescents were treated in hospitals in the country for some type of violence; Of these, 65.7% was attended for family violence and 34.3% for non-family violence. (REDIM)
- 1.1 million adolescent girls aged 15-19 years in the world have experienced sexual violence or any other forced sexual act. (UNICEF)
- 63% of 15-year-old boys and girls experience some type of violent discipline at home, psychological and physical. (UNICEF)
- 4 out of 10 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 have ever experienced violence by their partner. (UNICEF)
- 43% of boys and girls under the age of 15 is subjected to corporal punishment at home. (UNICEF)
- 4 out of 10 adolescent students (ages 11-12) are regularly bullied. (UNICEF)
- One in 5 women and 1 in 13 men report having suffered sexual abuse in childhood. (WHO)
Key messages to reinforce with the #InfanciasSinViolencia campaign
- The 63% of girls, boys and adolescents suffer abuse, are considered property and violence is used as an educational method.
- With the Covid-19 pandemic, violence against children and adolescents has increased.
- We must change the paradigm that children and adolescents are the “property” of their families.
- The State is responsible for guaranteeing a development without violence.
- The home is an environment where girls, boys and adolescents are exposed to suffer some type of violence, as has been recognized by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in General Comment No. 13.
- The whole society is an accomplice, since violence against children has no social class; it is an accepted cultural practice in our country, with silence.
- The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child points out that victims of physical and humiliating punishment may present anxiety, anguish, interference in the learning process, low self-esteem, feelings of loneliness and sadness, violent attitude, difficulties integrating into society and others.
The campaign can be followed by the Ollin.TV platforms
At Ollin.TV we believe that in order to achieve a change in which the rights of children are promoted and defended, a true social movement is necessary that transforms the attitudes, visions and customs of the last century and that continue to affect children today. and your rights.
Ollin.TV is an online television channel with which we propose an innovative movement that, under the human rights approach, seeks to transform words into actions, from community spaces close to childhood.
We also seek to have an impact in the States of Latin America and the Caribbean, so that as guarantors of rights they take action. Call us to create a live and constant movement in which the participation of girls, boys, adolescents and young people is the axis in the construction of public policies.
With Ollin.TV we seek to open a space for the voice of girls, boys and adolescents by providing information according to their age, so that they can form their own opinion, express it and organize to assert their voice.
Ollin.TV is a space for information, dissemination and awareness with a focus on human rights, childhood and gender perspective.