Uruguay against child sexual exploitation

Over the past months, the Claves multi-disciplinary team has been hard at work on the new training guide to accompany the "High Season" short film.

The guide aims to provide methodological and conceptual tools to promote awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents The material can be used by adolescents, young people and educators in various educational spaces, community centers, churches and civil society organizations with adolescents age 14 and up. Although it is very important to address aspects related to self-care, protection and prevention of violence against children, it is essential to adapt the issue to each groups' developmental stage, using adequate resources in order to work on this painful reality in a careful and caring way.

This guide is an invitation to think and reflect, to put this reality into words and break the silence. As groups work through the manual, they will come to recognize the problem and give it shape within their own context. This proposal seeks to raise awareness in order to contribute to the construction of a world free of violence against children and adolescents.

In October and November, 87 Uruguayan educators participated in a four-part virtual prevention training. Each recipient received the The training covers the definition and characeristics of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents as well as a methodological proposal for working with the short film and prevention strategies. Between the third and fourth meeting, participants carry out a practical experience applying the methodology in a virtual or face-to-face workshop with adolescents and young people.During the last training, participants exchange and learn from their experiences.

This project is supported by the National Parliament of Uruguay, with the endorsement of the National Committee for the Eradication of Commercial and Non-Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (CONAPEES).