Teach 400 Indigenous Children: Justice in Colombia

INDIGENOUS CHILDREN BUILDING RIGHTS IN COMMUNITIES

Indigenous children have become defenders of peace, human rights and women's rights in communities. Through their programs on community stations such as "Positiva Estéreo" or school stations such as "Calle larga" they promote rights and denounce problems that have been tried to be hidden, such as gender violence and child abuse.

In some communities belonging to the San Andrés indigenous council, cases of 10, 11, and 12-year-old girls who become pregnant due to abuse by adults around them continue to be reported. These situations cannot continue in social oblivion. Children have taken up the defense of the victims, denouncing all these serious social offenses, all these crimes. It is not an easy task but community children have discovered power that gives them access and management of communication media such as radio

INDIGENOUS CHILDREN WITH GENDER CONSCIOUSNESS

Zenu indigenous children are deepening their training not only in their rights but also in the rights of women and groups excluded from Colombian society. They begin to understand concepts such as gender equality and to accept that they need to change language, behaviors, thoughts that defend or promote the supposed inferiority of women

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This work of gender awareness training has been done through artistic means such as painting, theater, music, puppets and communication media such as indigenous community radio stations. At the station "Positiva Estéreo" in San Andrés de Sotavento, children have programs that they produce themselves. In these programs, issues such as gender equality and women's rights are studied, while the non-compliance of children's rights by authorities, communities, families and the State itself continues to be denounced.