Violence, Children and Organized Crime

This report stems from the Commission’s constant monitoring of the conditions in which children and adolescents exercise their human rights, as well as the vulnerability and violation thereof. The Commission has monitored how the region’s insecurity and violence are impacting children, adolescents, and their rights. The Commission has studied several of the key aspects covered in this report through the various mechanisms it has at its disposal, i.e. the system of petitions and cases, precautionary measures, hearings, thematic reports, country visits, press releases, and communication with States, in keeping with the powers conferred upon it in Article 41 of the American Convention and Article 18 of Statute of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.