Prologue Víctor Giorgi
Director-General of IIN-OAS
The Inter-American Children’s Institute is pleased to present this eleventh issue of the IIN-fancia Newsletter, following up on an editorial project begun six years ago. This publication takes place on a date steeped in history for our institution. It was on 9 June 1927 that ten countries signed the founding charter of the American Institute for the Protection of Children. In turn, in 2017, the OAS, in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of that foundational act, designated 9 June as Americas Children and Youth Day. One date, two celebrations with a great deal of meaning, which account for 94 years of history with continued commitments to the well-being of children and the Americanist conception; and with rifts, transformations in the incorporation of new perspectives and new paradigms providing a focal point from which to work for and – more recently – with children and adolescents, recognized as a collective subject. 9
