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Vicente Roqueñí

Minister Attaché of the Secretary of Governance

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Anual percentage of events of repatriation of children with respect ofthe total of Mexicans repatriated from the USA 1999 – july 2008.

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

Events of Repatriation from the USA of Mexican Children by Age Group and State 2007

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

Events of Repatriation from the USA of Mexican Children by travel condition and State 2007

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

Main routes of unauthorized migration through Mexican territory

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

Events of Repatriation of Foreign Children from Mexico January-august 2008

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

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Guatemala Honduras El Salvador

2004 2005 2006 2007

Events of Foreign Children repatriated from Mexico throughChiapas, 2004 – 2007.

Fuente: Instituto Nacional de Migración

• Generla tendency to drecreace

Interinstitucional Program for Border Minor Migrants (PIAMF)

PIAMF

SRESEGOB/INM

Local auth. NGO’s

DIF

Objective: Prevent and Attend the needs of unaccompanied migrant children through

the coordination of federal, state and municipal authorities, International organizationsand non government organizations

Table for the Inter institutional Dialogue on Unaccompanied Boys, Girls Adolescents and Women Migrants

DIALOGUE TABLE

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT:•Secretaría de Gobernacion (INM, COMAR)•Secretarias de Relaciones Exteriores, •Secretaria de Desarrollo Social, •Secretaria de Salud, •Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres.•Consejo Nacional Para Prevenir La Discriminación•Fiscalía especial para la atención de delitos relacionados con actos de violencia contra las mujeres en el país-PGR

INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES•Fondo de Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF)•Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM), •Alto Comisionado de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR),

MEXICAN OMBUDSMAN•Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos

ACADEMY

NGO’S

Table for the Inter institutional Dialogue on Unaccompanied Boys, Girls Adolescents and Women Migrants

Creation of a new Model of Protection of Unaccompanied Children.

Creation of a new body of the National Migration Institute consisting on agents specialized on child rights and protection that were called Children Protection Officers or Oficiales de Proteccion a la Infancia, OPI’s

Creation of the Net of Systems on Information of Unaccompanied Children. DIF, SRE, INM

Consolidation of the System of Information of DIF Shelters

Campaigns of information and awareness about the migration of children and its risks.

Establishment of the National Week of Migration.

CHILDREN PROTECTION OFFICERS OPI’S

Specialized individuals on the Rights of Children within the migration authority

Receive the child in Mexico and protect his rights while in custody of migration

Inform him in an adequate manner the situation and his rights,

Identify his need of international protection as an asylum seeker a victim of torture or trafficking,

Notify the appropriate institutions for shelter and international protection.

Accompany the child to his medical evaluation,

Accompany the child to the shelter

In some cases with the support of IOM accompany him in the travel to his home

Regional Conference on Migration

Regional Guidelines for the Attention of Unaccompanied Boys, Girls, and Adolescents Migrants

Done in Mexico at a Regional Seminar and will be presented in the Next RCM meeting in Guatemala.