translated from Spanish: NGO and Protection System

After the morning of this 10 January a student of 11 years shot at his teacher and classmates, then committed suicide, at a private school in Torreón, Coahuila, the National System of Integral Protection of Children and Adolescents (Sippina) and the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim) called for the violence that afflicts girls, children and adolescents in Mexico.
The Sippina explained that this requires understanding the facts of violence in a “multidimensional” view, and not criminalizing victims, mainly when they are girls, boys or adolescents.
“Violence is not only consummated in a school shooting like today, but they are daily violence such as corporal punishment, sexual abuse, homicides and femicides, and suicides that affect the lives of children and adolescents and that as a country we have been normalizing and making invisible,” he said.

Given the unfortunate events in #Torreón, Coahuila, we remind you that the #LGDNNA recognizes #NiñasNiñosAdolescentes’s right to privacy.
Don’t broadcast pictures or videos circulating on the Internet about victims! pic.twitter.com/k6kRXbufYl
— SNDIF (@DIF_NMX) January 10, 2020

The system, made up of federal authorities, governors and autonomous agencies, announced measures for the specific case of Torreón, such as coordination with the Coahuila authorities, to ensure the care of injured children and the “emotional restraint of the students of the Cervantes College, through the Office of the Attorney General for Children and the Family, (PRONNIF)”.
In addition, it said it will review health status and socio-emotional accompaniment, as well as control on access to underage weapons.
Find out: Daily more than 3 children and adolescents die in Mexico from violence
Meanwhile, the Redim lamented the violent events, but called on the government of Miguel Riquelme not to reduce the events to a matter of family irresponsibility.

“The events of Torreón cannot be seen outside the culture of militarization that has been left by the failed security strategy. This has led to a massive flow of weapons, available to families seeking to protect themselves against contexts of great violence, allowing access to them by children and adolescents,” the network said in a position.
Safe backpack?
He also rejected the “safe backpack” operation as a prevention measure, as he considered it “an act of institutional discrimination that has proved to be a failure to address and prevent cases of violence in the school space, rooted in complex problems such as community violence, the breakdown of the social fabric, impunity and insecurity”.

REDIM urges us to recognize that the events of Torreón, Coahuila are a consequence of the generalization of gun violence against children and adolescents
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— Children’s Rights (@derechoinfancia) January 10, 2020

It even recalled that implementing this operation “would be a violation of human rights”, as it would be against recommendation No. 21/2015 of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), which considers that the right to privacy, legal certainty, non-discrimination and the best interests of children was violated.
Meanwhile, the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) said that the attack on the school of Coahuila shows the seriousness of the country’s security problems, as well as the weakness of the rule of law, because “the authorities of the different levels and orders of government, for years and to this day, have not been able to guarantee for all people security conditions for peaceful coexistence that allow the validity of human rights in the country”.
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