Rights and Opportunities for Indigenous Adolescents and Youth

Christian Medical Action or AMC (for its acronym in Spanish) has been ICCOs partner for a long time, implementing projects to prevent violence in the Nicaraguan Autonomous Region of Northern Caribbean Coast (RACCN for its acronym in Spanish), specifically in Waspam and indigenous communities located in the shores of Rio Coco. With previous projects, they have carried out activities involving children, adolescents, youth, women and local authorities to prevent violence (including gender-based violence) in rural and indigenous contexts in a geographical area of difficult access. With their previous project, between 2015 and 2017, they have continued realizing actions to organize committees (with local authorities) to receive and follow-up impeachments related to sexual violence, involving children and adolescents in school actions to identify situations related to sexual abuse and violence, realizing advocacy actions to raise awareness on the importance to prevent violence and built capacities on teachers, school councils members, student governments and local authorities to learn, promote and use the violence critical route.