Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) – Puerto Vallarta would be the first municipality in Mexico to implement an action plan that affects the violation of the human rights of children and adolescents as possible victims of sexual exploitation, said Araceli Nogueda Simón, head of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons program of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH).
Nogueda Simón participated in a meeting on Monday called the Restorative Circle, at the invitation of the executive secretary of the Jalisco State System for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (SIPINNA), through the municipal system, and aimed at municipal public servants, among other actors key in the prevention and investigation of human trafficking, as well as in the attention, protection, and assistance to victims of this crime.
Prior to her participation in the restorative circle, Araceli Nogueda stressed that what is sought is that girls, boys, and adolescents have the right to live a life free of violence and a life free of commercial sexual exploitation, a scourge that is growing in Puerto Vallarta.
Nogueda indicated that this action plan made by the CNDH is a first for Puerto Vallarta, to implement immediate measures to influence the reduction of human rights violations of the alleged victims of human trafficking.
“What we are looking for immediately is to create an action plan for trafficking in persons for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation, and also analyze the strategic lines that we have, such as the Attorney for the Protection of Children and Adolescents, SIPINNA and the councilor area (Cabildo) as a substantive part of the municipal government”, Nogueda explained.
She added that restorative circles are a free mechanism on equal terms, in which actions are chosen as a factor that can influence the reduction of a violation of a human right, such as a life free of violence.
“We come to join efforts, to act immediately with what we can within our capacities. This action plan that they are going to review from Cabildo would make Puerto Vallarta the first municipality in the Republic to draw up an action plan that affects the violation of the human rights of girls, boys, and adolescents who are possible victims of sexual exploitation”, she emphasized.
Enrique de Jesús Ortega, administrator of SIPINNA in Puerto Vallarta, commented that the specific objectives of this restorative circle are to publicize the crime of human trafficking specifically in the victim typologies of alien prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation and commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Likewise, strengthen inter-institutional links with a view to working together in favor of victims of human trafficking; promote respect for the human rights of victims or potential victims of human trafficking and exploitation of persons.
Similarly, identify indicators that allow them to detect possible victims of human trafficking or exploitation, as well as strategic actions to reduce human rights violations.
Sex trafficking of minors in Puerto Vallarta
Child prostitution and trafficking in Puerto Vallarta have risen to an international level, and it’s a problem no one wants to talk about.
Faced with a problem rooted in the last two decades, the Government of Jalisco has established actions with the Secretariat of Public Security and Cybernetics, as well as with civil organizations to take on the problem.
The head of the Secretariat of the Social Assistance System, Alberto Esquer Gutiérrez, acknowledges that, according to the latest indicators at the national level, they show Puerto Vallarta with high levels of child prostitution.
The use of children and adolescents for pornography, production, promotion, and distribution of child pornography, and the forced recruitment of children and adolescents by organized crime for the purpose of sexual exploitation has grown in the city, making Puerto Vallarta one of Mexico’s main cities when it comes to exploitation of children.
Most of the probable perpetrators are relatives or people they know, members of organized crime, and users of social networks.
“The arrival of so many international tourists to Puerto Vallarta has made it a place of attraction internationally and in all the municipalities and cities that grow, their problems also grow, and this has happened in Puerto Vallarta,” said Alberto Esquer Gutiérrez.
Faced with this social and security problem, he reported that the State established an intervention policy with the installation of municipal delegations; In Puerto Vallarta, an exclusive office will be opened for the attention of child prostitution.
In addition, work is being done with the PAS Foundation, Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse to train staff from the Office of the Attorney for the Defense of Children and Adolescents.
In April, the Federal Government released the Strategy for the Prevention of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (ESCNNA) in Mexico. According to the data presented, it is shown that the main forms of CSEC detected are online -via social networks- (28 percent), the use of children and adolescents for prostitution.
Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) - The use of children and adolescents for pornography, production, promotion, and distribution of child pornography, and the forced recruitment of children and . . .
