If a child stops eating, suffers uncontrolled fear, avoids people he/she did not reject before, does not want to undress or falls into violent games with his/her own toys, it may be an indication that he/she is being a victim of some kind of violence against children. All these behaviors are in many cases warning signs to which the Government asks to pay special attention in order to eradicate violence against children and adolescents.s. Signs that could tell a lotis the slogan of the first institutional campaign of the Ministry of Youth and Children, presented this Monday by the Minister of Youth and Children. Sira Rego and the General Director of Children and Adolescents’ Rights, Sandra de Garmendia.
The spot illustrates several possible cases of violence against children that the environment could identify (a student who is slow to change after basketball, an act of rage of an adolescent or a very dark drawing of a girl) and communicate to the competent authorities. This is, as Rego stressed at the ministry’s headquarters, to put this type of violence in the “public space”, as was done in the past against gender violence.
“Although violence against children is in the private sphere, it must be addressed socially.” insisted the Minister of Youth and Childhood, who in this line has defended addressing “from the community” the “structural nature” of child violence.
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