79th Ordinary Meeting of the Directing Council of the Inter- American Children´s Institute Nicaraguan Government

79th Ordinary Meeting of the 79th Ordinary Meeting of the Directing Council of the Inter-Directing Council of the Inter-American Children´s InstituteAmerican Children´s Institute

Nicaraguan Government

NationalNational Context Context

45.8% of the population lives under lines 45.8% of the population lives under lines of povertyof poverty– Out of these 15.1% live under extreme Out of these 15.1% live under extreme

poverty conditions poverty conditions– More than 30% of these poor children More than 30% of these poor children

and 40% of the extremely poor and 40% of the extremely poor children suffer malnutrition.children suffer malnutrition.


Reformations, Reformations, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation and expansion of the expansion of the economic infrastructure, economic infrastructure, Growth based on the Growth based on the agriculture and in the agriculture and in the expansion of social expansion of social services guided toward services guided toward the rural and poor peoplethe rural and poor people

Strategy of reduction of the poverty

Political partyCivil SocietyManagersReligious LeadersN.G.O.Community organizationsDonating community

Wide consultation, inside and outside of the

Government

Decision of supporting the economical recovery

Estrategia

NationalNational Context ContextInstrument of national consensus that contains the compromises of the Summit of the Millennium and those from the special session of the Assembly of the United Nations on the childhood.

The National Plan of

development


It recognizes the full validity of the Convention on the Children's Rights.It established the bases of a new juridical culture

Constitution


To endow the capacities, end the

necessary information that allows them to

assume their Roll .

Code of the childhood and the

adolescence

National Politics of integral attention to the childhood

and the adolescence

Invigoration of the family

It is substantive part of the social and economic political, being the main axis of the programs of security social housing, education, promotion in health, and basic repararation.

Plan of National action for the

Childhood and the adolescence

Principles

Estrategy

Transversal axis

Principle

Estrategia

The family is the fundamental base of the society

The family as a guarantor of the rights of The family as a guarantor of the rights of children, and adolescents.children, and adolescents.

Program of integral Attention to the Nicaraguan Childhood (PAININ)

It strengthens families, increasing their capacities for the attention and protection to the children, those smaller than six years of age.It benefits 92, 256 Children smaller than six years of age, and to their families. It is in 65 municipalities of the country


It benefits to 11,651 homes with effective funds to increase the expense in feeding

Net of social protection


Promotes the responsibility of parents in the upbringing, education and formation of principles and their children's values.

School for Parents

Evolution of the children's Evolution of the children's relationship with the familyrelationship with the family

Code of the Childhood and the adolescence

It regulates the integral protection that the families, the society, the State and the privates institutions should offer to the girls, children and adolescents.


Measures of special Protection

Inclusion in a government program, non

governmental or community, and support to

the family.Inclusion in a treatment program,

psychological or psychiatric.Return to the home with or without

specialized psychological or juridical supervision

Family location


Measures of special Protection

Location in a substitute homeInclusion in a government or non government

program of rehabilitation and orientation to

girl, children and alcoholic and drug addict

adolescents.Location in a shelter center or refugeThe adoption as an exceptional measure

The children´s rights and their The children´s rights and their relationship relationship with the different family types.with the different family types.

Constitution

It is the right of the Nicaraguans to constitute a family, the family patrimony is not attachable

National Political of Integral attention to the Childhood

The family in their diverse forms: Monoparental, enlarged, and nuclear.It is the fundamental base for the integral development of children

The Doctrine of the integral protection The Doctrine of the integral protection and the law in force related to the and the law in force related to the familyfamily

Law of foodLaw that regulates relationships

between parents and ChildrenAdoption lawLaw for the breakup of the marriage for will of one of the parts.

Laws that regulate dispositions related with the family rights.


It established the right of the children, girls and adolescents not to be separated from their mother and father, except when the coexistence with one or both parents represents a danger for its life, physical integrity and integral development.

In the event of physical, psychic, moral maltreatment, sexual abuse, or exploitation against the girls, children and adolescents by any of their parents, or tutor or any person, they will be able to be judged and sanctioned with the forms established in the penal law in force.

Code of the Childhood, The Family coexistence


It is been elaborated an initiative of law about Paternal and Maternal responsibility and reformations to the civil code

Proposals


Proposals

Motion to he project of penal code, with the purpose that it is guatanteed the right of the girls, children and adolescents, to their physical, psychic and sexual integrity according to the code of the childhood and the adolescence

The Domestic violence and its The Domestic violence and its incidence in the children's incidence in the children's DevelopmentDevelopment

To Know the attention that is offered to the To Know the attention that is offered to the women and sexual violence, on behalf of the women and sexual violence, on behalf of the

Government´s InstitutionGovernment´s Institution.. It allows knowing with mayor objectivity this It allows knowing with mayor objectivity this

problem in the country.problem in the country. They evidenced that the demands of services They evidenced that the demands of services

for attention to the sexual and domestic for attention to the sexual and domestic violence has been increased.violence has been increased.


That the domestic violence is related with cultural, social and economics aspects and that it is a a problem that affects to the whole Nicaraguan society.

Not all the facts of sexual and domestic violence arrived to the tribunal of justice, and in those cases that are denounced, the aggressors are not always sanctioned

Results of the diagnoses


Recommendations of the Diagnoses

To deepen in the curricular contents

To continue promoting the processes of social sensitization

To strengthen the participation of the childhood and the adolescence


More visualization of the violence against the childhood and the adolescence.

Bigger Knowledge on the Nicaraguan society of the existent laws and about the measures and mechanisms toward prevention

Bigger conscience of the damage that this problem causes

There have been carried out efforts in national forums on the topic.

Programs, projects and actions are impelled directed to its gradual decrease

Results

The influence of the Media in the The influence of the Media in the formation of a children's rights cultureformation of a children's rights culture

It established the prohibition of diffusing for any means the names, pictures or identification signs that correspond to any girl, children and adolescents that have been subject active or passive of a penal infraction.

In its third Book referred to the specialized penal justice for the adolescents, establishes that all adolescents is entitled to be respected in his intimate private life, and there is a prohibition to publish and to disclose any fact of any investigation or process that could direct or indirectly facilitate their identity

Code of the childhood and the adolescence


Sensitization about the myths and realities of

the Code of the childhood and the adolescenceJournalists friends of the childhood and the

adolescence Net, for the promotion and defense

of their rights.Development of three graduate degrees on the

rights of the childhood and the adolescence and

media.Proposal of an ethics code for the informative

covering of topics about Childhood and adolescence.

Actions


Actions

Campaigns have been disclosed about the rights of the childhood and the adolescence

The Executive Secretary of the national counsel of attention and integral Protection to the childhood and the adolescence prepares a campaign of social communication..

Documents

79th Ordinary Meeting of the Directing Council of the Inter- American Children´s Institute Nicaraguan Government