2024-07-21 18:43:59
“The violent death of a child or adolescent cannot be normalised,” the organisation said.
Following the murder of four minors in the commune of Quilicura, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) asked the State of Chile for the need to adopt “urgent measures to ensure safe environments for children and adolescents.”
“The State must be effective in protecting children and this also implies guaranteeing environments free of violence. The violent death of a child or adolescent cannot be normalized“, UNICEF said in a public statement on its website.
In this regard, the international organization noted that Chile is still in time to reverse this upward trend in adolescent homicides, as is currently the case in other Latin American countries.
“Chile has made progress in many areas related to children, such as the reduction of infant mortality, the creation of Chile Crece Contigo, the implementation of a powerful vaccination program; It cannot be that the lives of these boys and girls are then lost in adolescence,” they will need.
In addition, UNICEF called on the Chilean State to move forward in the implementation of “precautionary measures” and in turn “attack the structural causes of vulnerability to violence, including poverty.”
“It is not acceptable that children and adolescents, carrying out everyday activities in their own communities, are killed or injured“, they added.
Likewise, the organization recalled that “the Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Chile in August 1990, and the Law that creates the Guarantee System establish that The State must have mechanisms that allow it to effectively protect children and adolescents from any form of violence.”.