translated from Spanish: Children’s Advocacy will ask for assurances for affected students in the PSU

The Ombudsman’s Office of the Rights of the Child will request the Department of Educational Assessment, Measurement and Registration (DEMRE) to include the group of young people who submitted the University Selection Test (PSU) under unfavourable conditions, among which they will have access to the surrender on 27 and 28 January. In a statement, the agency stated that “the DEMRE was required, on the day of the initiation of the process, the precise and detailed information of those who, being under the age of 18, were prevented from surrendering it, in order to exercise constitutional actions in their favor that would ensure equality before the law in the exercise of their right to education”.” The response to this Office came today, Friday 10 January, WITHOUT sending the requested information requesting the ‘maximum legal period’ to deliver it, a situation which obviously prevents institutional intervention in favour of those affected so that they have the possibility of restoring their rights infringed”, he stressed. From the organization he noted that “in relation to those young people who were forced to perform the PSU in conditions not favorable to the concentration and tranquility that a test of this nature demands, and have requested institutional intervention to be able to deliver the PST in due conditions,” they say that they will request DEMRE, “as the body responsible for the process, to include in the group of young people who will have access to the responsibility of the PSO on the new reported date, i.e. 27 and 28 January next”. With regard to the Government that will invoke the State Security Act against the leaders of the Aces for incitement and asserted that “as ombudsman’s office, in accordance with international human rights standards, we maintain that it is inapplicable to this group of the population, since for adolescents, the mandate and obligation for Chile, by virtue of its ratification, in 1990, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is the operation of a specialized and adolescent-specific justice , which in our country is contained in Law No. 20.084, whose guiding principles and objectives, based on the effective protection of the best interests of adolescents, is not consistent with the application of the aforementioned Law on the Internal Security of the State”.

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