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Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents (REDLAMYC)

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The REDLAMYC is a network of networks that are national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on childhood and adolescence active in defending the rights of children and adolescents according to the framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It was organised during the "First Substantive Session of the Preparatory Committee" of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2000 in the city of New York, NY, United States (US). The network members have been doing various activities at the national, subregional, and regional levels, working towards benchmarks for the region.

 

The component networks are mostly NGO national associations working on issues such as childhood, adolescence and youth, development, poverty, education, monitoring committees of the CRC, gender equality, youth leadership and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) promotion, among others.

Communication Strategies

The network consists of three subregions: Andean, Caribbean, and Mesoamerica and South Subregion. Among its activities, the organisation prioritises participation in spaces of decision-making related to children under the CRC on issues that are viewed as priority for countries, either by their magnitude or the urgency of response. For these issues that are viewed as priorities, REDLAMYC works to place in national and regional agendas, and it facilitates dissemination of information on them and contact between different actors.

 

Through REDLAMYC, national coalitions and their member organisations can exchange information, strengthen their activities, and develop new mechanisms and advocacy strategies for national, regional, continental, and global realities and contexts.

 

In addition, the network, via its website, has become a space for learning, communication, and mobilisation. It develops spaces for those situations of interest to its member networks and allows space for participation in making complaints on rights violations. It has a library of publications and bulletins and a list of links for the support of its members' advocacy initiatives: Child Right International Network (CRIN); Childs Right Connect; Comité de los derechos del niño de NNUU; ECPAT; Instituto Interamericano del niño, la niña y adolescentes IIN; Movimiento Mundial por la Infancia de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (MMI-LAC); Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos de NNUU; Street World Football; and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe.

Development Issues

Children, Rights

Key Points

REDLAMYC's 2013-2017 Strategic Plan builds on network programming focused on rights and plans to develop mechanisms for influencing public policy and legislation, as well as mechanisms for influencing investment and practices of state agents linked to the rights of children and adolescents. It includes the creation of mechanisms to promote participation.

 

Among other objectives, the network aims to track and monitor progress on the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence Against Children and adolescents (UNVAC), including public policies for childhood and adolescence in systems of Juvenile Justice corresponding to the formation and implementation of the National Protection Systems.

 

The networks represented in this "meta" network are:

 

Argentina Colectivo de Derechos de Infancia y Adolescencia

Argentina Comité Argentino de Seguimiento y Aplicación de la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño (CASACIDN)

Bolivia Coalición Boliviana para la Defensa de los Derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes

Brasil Associacao Nacional dos Centros de Defesa da Crianca e do Adolescente (ANCED)

Brasil Forum DCA - Forum Nacional Permanente de Entidades no Governamentais de Defensa dos Dereitos da Crianza e do Adolescente

Brasil Movimiento Nacional de Derechos Humanos (MNDH)

Chile Red de ONGs Infancia y Juventud

Chile Foro Chileno por los Derechos de la Niñez

Colombia Alianza por la Niñez Colombiana

Costa Rica Coalición de ONGs para el Seguimiento de la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño (COSECODENI)

Costa Rica Unión de Instituciones Privadas de Atención a la Niñez (UNIPRIN)

Cuba Consejo de Iglesias de Cuba

Ecuador Movimiento por la Niñez y Adolescencia de Ecuador

El Salvador Red para la Infancia y la Adolescencia (RIA)

Guatemala Coordinadora Institucional de Promoción por los Derechos de la Niñez (CIPRODENI)

Honduras Coordinadora de instituciones privadas pro las niñas, niños, adolescentes, jóvenes y sus derechos (COIPRODEN)

México Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México

México Alianza por los derechos de niñas, niños y adolescentes en México

Nicaragua Federación Coordinadora Nicaraguense de ONGs que Trabajan con la Niñez y la Adolescencia (CODENI)

Panamá Red Nacional de protección a la Niñez y Adolescencia en Panamá (REDNANIAP)

Paraguay Coordinadora por los Derechos de la Infancia y Adolescencia (CDIA)

Perú Grupo de Iniciativa Nacional por los Derechos del Niño (GIN)

República Dominicana Coalición de ONGs por la Infancia de la República Dominicana

Uruguay Comité de los derechos del Niño

Uruguay Asociación Nacional de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales Orientadas al Desarrollo (ANONG)

Venezuela Red por los Derechos Humanos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes

Sources

The REDLAMYC network website, March 26 2015, and email from Dr. Jorge Freyre to The Communication Initiative on April 8 2015.