{"id":2189,"date":"2018-10-18T01:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T01:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-10-18T01:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T01:19:26","slug":"the-alarming-situation-of-girls-and-teenagers-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/10\/18\/the-alarming-situation-of-girls-and-teenagers-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ALARMING SITUATION OF GIRLS AND TEENAGERS IN LATIN AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Latin America, many of the human rights of girls and\u00a0teen girls\u00a0are violated, causing a large-scale impact.\u00a0<\/strong>In the document\u00a0“Girl children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean”<\/a>\u00a0is compiled all the status quo in which are the girls and adolescents living in part of the American continent.<\/p>\n

It contains fundamental descriptive aspects, based on studies carried out by ECLAC, UNICEF and the UN, representing imperatively part of the exercise of the rights of these girls.\u00a0One of these aspects that generates an important alert for the human development process in Latin America is early pregnancy, which the document describes as:<\/p>\n

“In five of nine countries in Latin America, the incidence of pregnancy among women aged 15 and 19 who belong to indigenous peoples and live in rural areas exceeds 20%.\u00a0According to these data, in Brazil and Panama, two of every three women aged 15 to 19 who live in rural areas and belong to indigenous peoples had been mothers in 2010.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

This diagnosis is alarming for the countries of Latin America, because it implies walls in the development process of the girls. These pregnancies, in their majority, come from violent acts, like obligatory marriages, women trafficking, forced sexual relations, among other reasons. Thus, representing a violation in the right of sexual and reproductive health for girls.<\/p>\n

The situation of girls and teen girls in the region<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In Venezuela, as a result of an unstoppable political and economic crisis, facts that directly attack the human rights of girls and adolescents began to appear systematically.<\/strong>\u00a0Mainly in rural areas and indigenous ethnic groups. These girls became collateral victims of illegal mining, intensifying at the moment when the Venezuelan government began the mining project in the Orinoco Arc.<\/p>\n

According to the reports of\u00a0Wanaaleru<\/a>,\u00a0the Organization of the Indigenous Women of the Amazon, there are complaints about the trafficking of indigenous girls and women through the existence of camps of the armed groups of the FARC and the ELN. These reports indicate that these groups are the main reference for trade and the sexual exploitation of them.<\/p>\n

In Colombia, the issue of female genital mutilation is present in several communities of indigenous ethnic groups, the most named being the Embera community.<\/strong>\u00a0Various Colombian institutions and organizations have been concerned about the passivity of the Colombian State regarding this issue.<\/p>\n

For this reason, since 2013, it has been called upon\u00a0to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation from the legal framework and\u00a0as a priority issue in the National Plans, in accordance with\u00a0the\u00a0Equality Debt Report.\u00a0In Peru, the face of inequality<\/strong>\u00a0in the rights of girls has the following alarming figures<\/strong>, according\u00a0to the aforementioned report:<\/p>\n