| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | November 2009 
Conclusion of Regional Panels on Children and Teenagers' Rights
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
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November 21, 2009
| | President Felipe Calderón leads the presentation of the Conclusions of the Regional Panels on Children’s and Teenagers’ Rights. | |
Mexico City - This week, President Felipe Calderón, accompanied by his wife, Margarita Zavala, President of the National DIF, led the presentation of the Conclusions of the Regional Panels on Children’s and Teenagers’ Rights held at the Adolfo López Mateos hall of the official Los Pinos Residence.
As a result of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Convention of Children’s and Teenagers’ Rights, the DIF organized four regional panels on these rights, in Tlaxcala, Tijuana, Mérida and Morelia.
These panels are designed to build consensus on the best way of respecting children’s and teenagers’ rights. The aim is to promote dialogue at the national level to seek consensus and promote proposals from a rights rather than a welfare perspective to create strategies and coordinate all the DIF’s actions in favor of the Convention on Children's Rights.
The DIF is celebrating this Convention together with three levels of Government, the three levels of the Union, civil society, human rights organizations, UNICEF and the academic sector, together with the state DIFs, municipal DIFs, the business sector, chambers, business associations and above all, in keeping with this Convention, the children have been invited to exercise their right to be heard as regards everything that affects them.
These panels will permit the transition from a welfare policy culture to a state policy on behalf of children.
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