Ministry of Youngsters seeks to achieve all departments with an abuse prevention information

Asunción, IP Company.- Since this 12 months, the Paraguayan State has for the primary time a “Information for the Prevention of Baby Sexual Abuse” to be used in faculties and with households. The Ministry of Youngsters and Adolescents (Minna) has the problem of reaching all territories.

The information has technical but in addition easy and projective language, in order that educators all through the nation have the identical language, stated Minister Walter Gutiérrez.

The problem for Minna is to extend its presence within the territories, which is why work is being promoted with the governorates and municipalities, via the departmental youngsters’s councils, he indicated in an interview with Paraguay TV.

The doc is accessible for obtain on the ministry’s web site (www.minna.gov.py). The drafting was carried out by technicians from Minna and the Ministry of Schooling (MEC) and its evaluation included the participation of the academic group, together with mother and father’ associations and spiritual associations, he indicated.

This information will probably be used for work in faculties, communities and with different institutional actors on the bottom, akin to well being promoters. It has chapters to work by age cycles on elevating consciousness towards acts of sexual abuse and violence.

“We Are All Accountable” Marketing campaign

The minister identified that this 12 months the kid sexual abuse prevention marketing campaign seeks to lift consciousness about prevention. Different editions centered on reporting, with a view to distort conditions of abuse.

The minister highlighted the help of the President of the Republic, Santiago Peña, and the primary woman Leticia Ocampos, in addition to the State establishments to hold out the dissemination of the marketing campaign. Now the Minna focuses on working with the governorates and municipalities to achieve the territories and enhance the mechanisms of motion in circumstances of complaints.

The marketing campaign has the cooperation of the organizations UNICEF Paraguay, Plan Worldwide, Youngsters Imagine, SOS Youngsters’s Villages, the Yacyretá Binational Entity, the United Nations Inhabitants Fund, UNFPA, and the Punto Farma pharmacy chain.

Each Could the brand new version of the marketing campaign is launched, remembering that on Could 31 we commemorate, by decree No. 3219/2004, the “Nationwide Day to combat mistreatment, sexual and labor abuse of Women, Boys and Adolescents” , in reminiscence of the crime of Felicita Estigarribia; an 11-year-old tangerine vendor, who was discovered lifeless on the foot of Cerro Yaguarón and with indicators of getting been sexually abused.