A/HRC/19/64 We recommend that: 1. A regional body be created whose mandate is to review our different realities (including our differences) and that through this, children and adolescents can make their complaints to guarantee their rights. This regional body must centralize annual reports by each country on the situation of children and adolescents in relation to violence. 2. The countries approve laws that prohibit violence against children and adolescents, including violence with ‗disciplinary‘ objectives. 3. Public employees in institutions charged with the compliance or vigilance of some of the rights of children and adolescents are properly trained. 4. The laws are respected and that ministries of childhood and adolescence are created in the countries of the region, and that services of care and protection for children and adolescents are decentralized. 5. Other types of violence, including structural and symbolic violence, are investigated, to create public policies that can reverse this situation. We particularly recommend that the Commission take into account this type of violence, which for years has been an unknown factor in many States, in order to prevent and educate children and adolescents, young people and adults in a culture of respect and peace. 6. The Commission demand that States promote the rights of children and adolescents and monitor their application in families, institutions and society in general. We demand that: 1. The States legally guarantee the rights of children and adolescents. That the different types of culture are not discriminated against or looked down upon, but that a way for plural participation is sought. 2. The States commit to effectively comply with our rights, to comply with the laws and to sanction anyone who fails to respect them. 3. The media be educational agents reflecting the positive values and forms of expression of children and adolescents. 4. Culture, customs, traditions and dances and the restitution of the territories seized from the Indigenous Peoples of America are respected, to guarantee development and decent living conditions for children and adolescents of this sector. 5. That families expelled by agro-business from their communities of origin are protected. 35

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