Protecting minors is a top priority for public authorities, recognized in Article 39 of the Spanish Constitution and in various international treaties, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989, and ratified by Spain in 1990.
The fight against violence in childhood is a human rights imperative. To promote the rights of children and adolescents enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, it is essential to ensure and promote respect for their human dignity and physical and psychological integrity through the prevention of all forms of violence.
Violence is understood as "all forms of physical or mental harm or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse," according to General Comment No. 13 (2011) "The right of the child to freedom from all forms of violence" of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Article 1 of the Organic Law 8/2021, of June 4, on comprehensive protection of children and adolescents against violence (LOPIVI) goes further and declares that "violence is understood as any action, omission, or negligent treatment that deprives minors of their rights and well-being, threatens or interferes with their orderly physical, psychic, or social development, regardless of its form and medium of commission, including those carried out through information and communication technologies, especially digital violence.
In any case, violence will be understood as physical, psychological, or emotional abuse, physical, humiliating, or degrading punishments, neglect or negligent treatment, threats, insults, and slander, exploitation, including sexual violence, corruption, child pornography, prostitution, bullying, sexual harassment, cyberbullying, gender violence, genital mutilation, human trafficking for any purpose, forced marriage, child marriage, unsolicited access to pornography, sexual extortion, public dissemination of private data as well as the presence of any violent behavior in their family environment.”
- Legislation
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- Advertising campaigns against violence towards children
- Documentation of interest
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish