The drama of the children in Honduras and Mexico

The current challenges of the Organization of United Nations on the subject of defense of the rights of the children and young people include different problematic. Two of them, the children's murder of the street and the exploited sexually of the minors, are treated in offices cable dated in Tegucigalpa and Mexico City and compiled for ALL HAPPY CHILDREN.

From the Honduras capital they informs that at least 66 minors were murdered in the first semester of this year in Honduras, to persons' hands or groups that attack the children of the street, whereas from Mexico City the news comes from that about 17.000 Mexican children are exploited sexually.

In case of Honduras, the special realtor on extra judicial, summary and arbitrary executions of the UNO, Asthma Jahangir, report that there exist reports documented about the murder of 66 Honduran minors in the first six months of this year. The official of the United Nations Organization said in a press conference that the organizations of human rights affirm that the real numbers are higher than the officials.

According to the office of the AFP, the realtor made clear that a record of governmental organisms, from 1998 on April 2001, recognizes 606 murders, between which more than 400, or more than 60 %, belong to children. With these revelations, Jahangir finishes the visit that realizes from August 6 Honduras invited by the Government of the president Carlos Flores to verify the denunciations of the murders.

The visit was programmed considering that He Marries Alliance, a minors' not governmental protective organization in Latin America, it documented 820 minors' cases murdered in Honduras between January, 1998 and June, 2001, of which 17 % is attributed to the police (between 60 % of investigated cases), it points out the AFP.

Murders without dawning

According to Mrs. Asma Jahangir, in Honduras " there exists the widespread credence of which these murders have been committed for "maras" or gangs rivals of minors. The statisticians deny this credence. The immense majority of these cases stay without dawning. The group who makes at others victims are person or unknown groups that attack the children of the street ", makes sure the UN member of staff.

Mrs. Jahangir believes that there are great more the minors who have been murdered by the police, because he interviewed children who were witnesses of participation of the authorities who do not appear in the official records. In these interviews, the minors claimed opportunities " to do the peaces " with the police, and to go away to the United States to look for better opportunities of life and opportunities to study, indicated the official.

The relator of United Nations was sorry that from some mass media of the country one encourages the murder of the young people, adducing that are integral criminals of bands, though he admitted that there are not governmental organizations trying to help to solve the problem, in spite of that they are bad seen by some journalists.
Jahangir thinks that the Government has not done the sufficient thing to stop the murders or has been indifferent. To his judgment, also " the fragility " of the system of propitious justice "impunity" to the executors of the crimes.

Thousands of Mexican children exploited sexually

The chilling number of 17 thousand Mexican children exploited sexually makes clear the need to strengthen the programs of protection to the childhood, has pointed out in Mexico City the director of the System for the Integral Development of the Family (DIF), Ann Teresa Aranda.

In declarations, he made sure to the press that before this phenomenon " we can no have tolerance ", after the signature of the agreement " It goes for the children " between the DIF and the General Lawyer's office of the Republic (PGR).

Aranda said that in the United States they are 300.000 children those who suffer sexual development, but " the comparisons are odious, with an alone minor who was in this circumstance it would be a motive sufficient for the intervention of the State and 17.000 are a gigantic motive ".

The violence and sexual commercial development against the minors happens with major frequency in the tourist port of Acapulco, as well as in City Juárez, Tijuana, Guadalajara, city of Mexico and the southern state of Chiapas, points out the information of the AFP dated in the Mexican capital.

Mrs. Aranda informed that a program exists I pilot in the Caribbean center of vacation of Cancún, been of Quintana Roo, which is called " With the children it does not use ", to offset the sexual development and soon eight will be started more in other cities.