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Guatemala: Delegates from 32 countries discuss trafficking in women and children

As part of the Third Conference of States Parties to the Mechanism for Monitoring the Convention of Belem Do Pará (MESECVI), delegates from 32 countries discussed since yesterday on violence against women.

José Miguel Insulza, OAS secretary, sent a message to the participants of the conference opened yesterday in Antigua.

At the event, which takes place in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez, Sonia Escobedo, Women's presidential secretary, called for the integration of trafficked women and girls affected with practices of commercial sexual exploitation and labor forced into private homes and plantations.

also requested to include the problem of sexual violence, especially in countries emerging from armed conflict, as he said: "These are facts that remain unpunished." OAS calls


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José Miguel Insulza, secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS) and participated in the inauguration of the event, through a televised urged to visualize and prioritize violence against women in different countries of America, participating in that conference.

Insulza said that the two previous conferences have provided institutional tools member countries to prevent, eradicate and punish violence against women in matters of legislation, public policies, access to justice, budgeting, information and statistics.

At the meeting, Guatemala received the presidency of the Conference by Venezuela, which hosted in 2008.