1. 79th Ordinary Meeting of the Directing Council of the Inter- American Children´s Institute Nicaraguan Government

2. National Context 45.8% of the population lives under lines of poverty 45.8% of the population lives under lines of poverty –Out of these 15.1% live under extreme poverty conditions – More than 30% of these poor children and 40% of the extremely poor children suffer malnutrition.

3. National Context Reformations, Rehabilitation and expansion of the economic infrastructure, Growth based on the agriculture and in the expansion of social services guided toward the rural and poor people Strategy of reduction of the poverty Political party Civil Society Managers Religious Leaders N.G.O. Community organizations Donating community Wide consultation, inside and outside of the Government Decision of supporting the economical recovery Estrategia

4. National Context Instrument of national consensus that contains the compromises of the Summit of the Millennium and those from the special session of the Assembly of the United Nations on the childhood. The National Plan of development

5. National Context It recognizes the full validity of the Convention on the Children's Rights.It established the bases of a new juridical culture Constitution

6. National Context To endow the capacities, end the necessary information that allows them to assume their Roll. Code of the childhood and the adolescence National Politics of integral attention to the childhood and the adolescence Invigoration of the family It is substantive part of the social and economic political, being the main axis of the programs of security social housing, education, promotion in health, and basic repararation. Plan of National action for the Childhood and the adolescence Principles Es trategy Transversal axis P rinciple Estrategia The family is the fundamental base of the society

7. The family as a guarantor of the rights of children, and adolescents. Program of integral Attention to the Nicaraguan Childhood (PAININ) It strengthens families, increasing their capacities for the attention and protection to the children, those smaller than six years of age. It benefits 92, 256 Children smaller than six years of age, and to their families. It is in 65 municipalities of the country

8. The family as a guarantor of the rights of children, and adolescents. It benefits to 11,651 homes with effective funds to increase the expense in feeding Net of social protection

9. The family as a guarantor of the rights of children, and adolescents. Promotes the responsibility of parents in the upbringing, education and formation of principles and their children's values. School for Parents

10. Evolution of the children's relationship with the family Code of the Childhood and the adolescence It regulates the integral protection that the families, the society, the State and the privates institutions should offer to the girls, children and adolescents.

11. Evolution of the children's relationship with the family Measures of special Protection Inclusion in a government program, non governmental or community, and support to the family. Inclusion in a treatment program, psychological or psychiatric. Return to the home with or without specialized psychological or juridical supervision Family location

12. Evolution of the children's relationship with the family Measures of special Protection Location in a substitute home Inclusion in a government or non government program of rehabilitation and orientation to girl, children and alcoholic and drug addict adolescents. Location in a shelter center or refuge The adoption as an exceptional measure

13. The children´s rights and their relationship with the different family types. Constitution It is the right of the Nicaraguans to constitute a family, the family patrimony is not attachable National Political of Integral attention to the Childhood The family in their diverse forms: Monoparental, enlarged, and nuclear.It is the fundamental base for the integral development of children

14. The Doctrine of the integral protection and the law in force related to the family Law of food Law that regulates relationships between parents and Children Adoption law Law for the breakup of the marriage for will of one of the parts. Laws that regulate dispositions related with the family rights.

15. The Doctrine of the integral protection and the law in force related to the family It established the right of the children, girls and adolescents not to be separated from their mother and father, except when the coexistence with one or both parents represents a danger for its life, physical integrity and integral development. In the event of physical, psychic, moral maltreatment, sexual abuse, or exploitation against the girls, children and adolescents by any of their parents, or tutor or any person, they will be able to be judged and sanctioned with the forms established in the penal law in force. Code of the Childhood, The Family coexistence

16. The Doctrine of the integral protection and the law in force related to the family It is been elaborated an initiative of law about Paternal and Maternal responsibility and reformations to the civil code Proposals

17. The Doctrine of the integral protection and the law in force related to the family Proposals Motion to he project of penal code, with the purpose that it is guatanteed the right of the girls, children and adolescents, to their physical, psychic and sexual integrity according to the code of the childhood and the adolescence

18. The Domestic violence and its incidence in the children's Development To Know the attention that is offered to the women and sexual violence, on behalf of the Government´s Institution. To Know the attention that is offered to the women and sexual violence, on behalf of the Government´s Institution. It allows knowing with mayor objectivity this problem in the country. It allows knowing with mayor objectivity this problem in the country. They evidenced that the demands of services for attention to the sexual and domestic violence has been increased. They evidenced that the demands of services for attention to the sexual and domestic violence has been increased.

19. The Domestic violence and its incidence in the children's Development That the domestic violence is related with cultural, social and economics aspects and that it is a a problem that affects to the whole Nicaraguan society. Not all the facts of sexual and domestic violence arrived to the tribunal of justice, and in those cases that are denounced, the aggressors are not always sanctioned Results of the diagnoses

20. The Domestic violence and its incidence in the children's Development Recommendations of the Diagnoses To deepen in the curricular contents To continue promoting the processes of social sensitization To strengthen the participation of the childhood and the adolescence

21. The Domestic violence and its incidence in the children's Development More visualization of the violence against the childhood and the adolescence. Bigger Knowledge on the Nicaraguan society of the existent laws and about the measures and mechanisms toward prevention Bigger conscience of the damage that this problem causes There have been carried out efforts in national forums on the topic. Programs, projects and actions are impelled directed to its gradual decrease Results

22. The influence of the Media in the formation of a children's rights culture It established the prohibition of diffusing for any means the names, pictures or identification signs that correspond to any girl, children and adolescents that have been subject active or passive of a penal infraction. In its third Book referred to the specialized penal justice for the adolescents, establishes that all adolescents is entitled to be respected in his intimate private life, and there is a prohibition to publish and to disclose any fact of any investigation or process that could direct or indirectly facilitate their identity Code of the childhood and the adolescence

23. The influence of the Media in the formation of a children's rights culture Sensitization about the myths and realities of the Code of the childhood and the adolescence Journalists friends of the childhood and the adolescence Net, for the promotion and defense of their rights. Development of three graduate degrees on the rights of the childhood and the adolescence and media. Proposal of an ethics code for the informative covering of topics about Childhood and adolescence. Actions

24. The influence of the Media in the formation of a children's rights culture Actions Campaigns have been disclosed about the rights of the childhood and the adolescence The Executive Secretary of the national counsel of attention and integral Protection to the childhood and the adolescence prepares a campaign of social communication..