Child Rights in Disaster Risk Management

Introduction

The Inter-American Children’s Institute, IIN, is a specialized organization of the
Organization of American States, which, together with its member states since 1927,
has been working in matters involving childhood and adolescence for 84 years,
permanently promoting commitment regarding the rights and well-being of children. It
has become a hemispheric reference point, and an Inter-American System enabler in
processes involving agreement and coordination with regard to the principal regional
efforts in this field