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Latin American Commemoration Meeting: “20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Commitment of the States to the Construction of an Adolescent Citizenry". Buenos Aires, Argentina.

|   August 2009

During August, two Latin American events to commemorate the 20 years of the Approval of the CRC were carried out in Buenos Aires: the "Latin American Commemoration Meeting: 20 years of the Approval of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child", an initiative by DNI (Defense of Children International) in the framework of the Latin American Project of Juvenil Justice; and the Forum with Civil Society in anticipation of the 20th Pan-American Congress on Childhood and Adolescence organised by the OAS Department of International Affairs and the Inter-American Children's Institute, in which the CRC was one of the working axes.

The RELAF Project participated in both events. In the Meeting, as part of the Organising Committee and as coordinator of the Workshop for Youngsters. In the Forum, along with other 36 Latin American organisations, preparing a document with recommendations that will be distributed by the Department of International Affairs and the Inter-American Children's Institute to the Member States in the 20th Pan-American Congress.

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