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Mexico City
27-29 October, 2004  

IIN/RES. 5 (XIX-04)

Family Violence and Its Impact on Child Development
(Submitted by the Delegation of Bolivia)

THE NINETEENTH PAN AMERICAN CHILD CONGRESS,  

CONSIDERING: 

1. The importance of the adoption by member states of all the adequate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to preserve children from all forms of physical or mental violence, trauma or mistreatment, neglect, negligent treatment or exploitation –specially sexual abuse— while being under the care of their parents, legal guardians or any other person responsible for them;

2. The need to materialize the political will expressed by the member states at this Nineteenth Pan American Child Congress for the detection, prevention and integral treatment of any situation affecting children’s rights;

3. The high incidence of family violence to which children in the region are subject;

RESOLVES: 

1. To urge those member states that may require so to design or to strengthen state policies for the prevention and treatment of family violence.  
   
   

2. To request the IIN to compile, subject to its resource availability, the experience of member states on intervention models on family violence developed by governmental or civil society entities in the member states.