The Plenary of the National Assembly will discuss this Tuesday, in the third and last debate, bill 567 that creates a System of Guarantees and Comprehensive Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents.
The project, which passed the second debate unanimously, establishes the protection and rights of children and adolescents and allows a transition from a guardianship regime to a human rights regime, where this vulnerable population is placed at the center.
The former director of the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family (Senniaf), Rosaria Correa, referred to the issue, indicating that said law establishes a system of guarantees that will provide us with very specific tools so that there is clarity regarding responsibilities that has each institution.
“The reality is that the violations of rights will continue. With this legislation we are improving the systems that can achieve a good pursuit of investigations that can help us improve the training of personnel “, he explained.
The draft also states that the human rights of minors and adolescents to receive emotional, health, social, education, security care, among others, will be under high-level supervision in which more than 15 public entities will participate, whose rector corresponds to the Ministry of Social Development, (Mides), with the contribution of society and the private sector.
Regarding this, Correa said that those who receive these subsidies must have these shelters in optimal conditions, ceasing to be shelters and becoming real institutions of protection.
“It is not that adoptions are so difficult, what happens is that Panama is not a country that we could say has children as people can imagine to adopt. Most people want to adopt to satisfy the need to be parents. Adoption is a figure beyond the protection of the rights of children who do not have a family. Children for adoption also suffer from diseases ”, he pointed out.
