Committee on the rights of the child


H. Role of the independent national human rights institutions with competence for child rights



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H. Role of the independent national human rights institutions
with competence for child rights


  1. Over the reporting period there were no changes to the powers of the Office for the Defence of Human Rights regarding the promotion and protection of child rights that were reported in the second periodic report.5

I. Publicizing the Convention


  1. El Salvador has carried out many measures to publicize the content of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as described throughout this report, and the principal measures adopted to implement the Convention, also described herein. For example, in 2006 ISNA carried out 110 social mobilization measures with a rights approach and promoting fundamental rights of children nationwide, in coordination with strategic partners, by means of activities such as fairs, festivals and fora. These activities covered 21,000 children and adolescents in 2005, and 29,841 in 2006. The activities were carried out by ISNA’s Department for the Promotion of the National Policy for the full Development of Children and Adolescents.

  2. ISNA has promoted activities directly involving children and adolescents in activities to promote their rights. It succeeded in increasing direct participation of beneficiaries from 23,000 in 2005 to 36,169 in 2006.

  3. ISNA’s Annual Operational Plan includes dissemination activities in the form of training lectures and workshops at ISNA centres and shelter homes, and to ONGs. Over the period 2004 to 2006 topics included nutritional assessment, diet and nutrition, and the preparation and handling of foods. Work with NGOs covered the topics of inter-institutional cooperation for a community strategy, preparation of cases, full development of children, promotion of child rights, law and the family, alternative discipline, legal tools for protection centres, child development using participative methods, therapy for sexual abuse, and a rights approach to the care of institutionalized children and adolescents. More than 30 NGOs working for child rights took part in these activities.

  4. The above-mentioned activities enabled programmes to be conducted on awareness and training in human rights and child rights, in coordination and in cooperation with various NGOs, but it has not yet proved possible to expand the dissemination activities descried in the previous country report in this area.

III. General principles


  1. The concept and scope of the principle of the child’s best interests have not been changed in Salvadoran law, enshrined in the Family Code (Article 350), which means that it retains the same guarantee structure, along with the principle of equality and non-discrimination, recognized and enacted in the Constitution and the country’s secondary legislation, as notified to the Committee in previous periodic reports.

IV. Civil rights and participation rights

A. Freedom of expression; freedom of assembly and association


  1. ISNA has promoted the training of children and adolescents and their participation in public activities designed to publicize and defend child rights and fundamental freedoms. Some 1,012 young people have been trained as volunteer promotion agents, and children and adolescents have been involved in joint projects carried out with NGOs, such as the Movimiento de Jóvenes Encuentristas de Ilobasco (170 young people); Visión Mundial (5,644 young people); INTERVIDA (600 young people); Plan Internacional El Salvador (6,000 young people); Polígono Industrial Don Bosco (83 young people); Fe y Alegría (150 young people); Círculo Solidario (300 young people); Ayuda en Acción (200 young people); and Sistema de Asesoría y Capacitación para el Desarrollo Local (SACDEL) (300 young people). In this way, 13,871 children and adolescents were involved in ISNA and NGO participative programmes over the period.

  2. In line with Principle 10 of the PNDINA, on the participation of children and adolescents in their own development, ISNA and several NGOs have fostered the setting-up of a number of bodies and have promoted some participative programmes, including the following:
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Name of association

Function

Jóvenes Encuentristas Ilobasco

Reduction of violence through recreation and integration into the labour market

Visión Mundial

Promotion of rights and human development (prevention)

Casa Encuentro Juvenil, INTERVIDA

Use of leisure time: recreation, libraries, art and culture, sport, ecology, sexual and reproductive health, life skills, cinema and leadership.

Plan El Salvador

Participation in defence of child rights at community level

Polígono Industrial Don Bosco

Re-establishment of the rights of young people in conflict with criminal law

Centro de educación para todos, Fe y Alegría

Social and educational prevention with a rights approach

Vicaría Divino Salvador training and coaching centre, Archbishopric of San Salvador

Training of social role models for children and adolescents in a situation of social risk.

ISNA volunteer promotion agents

Prevention and reduction of violence towards children and adolescents through the promotion of rights and good parenting practice in families

  1. The aims of the National Youth Secretariat include fostering the involvement of young people in public affairs as a strategy for making citizens aware of their rights and obligations. It has set up eight full development centres nationwide with the aim of providing young people with opportunities for vocational training, remedial courses, access to information, culture, sport, leadership, citizens’ participation, preventive health and volunteer work.

  2. The Youth Secretariat is also implementing the Youth in the Park project, so as to expand the range of options for healthy relaxation and reactivation of areas for recreation and youth cultural expression under the patronage of the municipal governments. It also aims to encourage young people to develop their skills in the various branches of art and sport, motivating them to express them in public.

  3. The Secretariat runs the following other programmes:

    1. Vacation opportunities. This programme is carried out with the FUSALMO private organization, the Ministry of Education, the National Civil Police and the art gallery, with the aim of giving young people opportunities to get involved, during their vacations, in educational, sporting, cultural, work and training activities;

    2. Deportevías. These are street sports programmes to repurpose public spaces for developing sports activities. They are carried out in conjunction with the National Sports Institute (INDES), the National Council of Public Security and the municipalities;

    3. Comprehensive Presidential Football Programme. This programme is being carried in coordination with the private foundation Educando a un Salvadoreño (Educating a Salvadoran – FESA). The objective is to raise the quality of Salvadoran football by training young talents in the sport, offering them education in athletics without neglecting aspects such as academic studies, health, diet and training in values.

    4. Youth camps. These take place with the support of the National Academy of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defence, for training leaders in fields such as motivation, group management and stress management;

    5. Jóvenes Solidarios: This is a union of youth organizations and volunteers interested in supporting major common concerns.


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