4 8. That the Court is aware of the usefulness of the hearing held on September 30, 2009 to supervise the matters pending compliance in the present case. * * * 9. That regarding the realization, in consultation with civil society, of a public act of acknowledgment of international responsibility and at which it announces the elaboration of a State policy concerning children in conflict with the law (eleventh operative paragraph of the Judgment), the State informed that an Inter-Institutional Technical Team prepared the report named “ISAI Strategy: Methodological Proposal for the Elaboration of the Public Policy for the Attention of Teenage Offenders” (hereinafter “ISAI Strategy”). Said report establishes the general principles and methodological guidelines that act as grounds for the elaboration of the State’s policy in this subject. The document was presented before the National Council for Children and Teenagers, which approved it in its regular session of the month of May 2008 and it put the National Secretariat for Children and Teenagers in chare of the implementation of the proposals included therein. Therefore, the Secretariat created an Inter-Institutional and Multisectoral Table (hereinafter the “Inter-Institutional Table”), made up by the representatives of different State bodies and UNICEF with the objective of creating, in a participative manner, the juvenile criminal public policy based on the ISAI Strategy. The Inter-Institutional Table started its tasks in the month of February 2009. 10. That at the private hearing for monitoring compliance Paraguay informed that the National Secretariat for Children and Teenagers “is currently coordinating the realization of a consultancy through an executing body,” with the purpose of obtaining a base diagnosis on children and teenagers in Paraguay and thus offer input for the effective design of the State’s policy in matters of children in conflict with the law. The final report from that consultancy will be available for the mentioned Inter-Institutional Table in December 2009. Likewise, said, “articulating space” meets every two weeks and has produced documents that will serve as the technical grounds for the elaboration of the public policy of reference, with a preventive component, a component of attention during the criminal proceedings that will guarantee the right to a fair trial and the educational purpose of the juvenile criminal system, and a component of social insertion that will promote that teenagers “be incorporated into the community as well as the educational, work, and cultural life without any discrimination whatsoever.” Additionally, it referred to other initiatives related with this matter and concluded that even though Paraguay does not yet have the corresponding public policy “it cannot be stated that it is failing to comply” with this obligation; even when it could be running behind, the State has worked actively on the design of the mentioned policy. Finally, according to the Time Line it undertook to comply with this obligation in June 2010. 11. That the representatives pointed out that it is vital that the State comply with this obligation, “even more so in light of the situation of abandonment and lack of educative services that exists among the youngsters imprisoned at the Ita[u]guá Educational Center,” which was created with the intention of being a reeducation model for teenage offenders, based on the facts that motivated the Judgment in the present case. They added that the continuance of the violations to children’s rights at that Center is evidenced from information provided by the State, specifically from the InterInstitutional Commission for the Monitoring of Detainment Centers for Teenagers, which concluded in the “Report on the situation of different detainment centers for teenagers” that the youngsters at the Itauguá Educational Center “are left to their own luck, […] they are unprotected.” They stated that up to this moment the civil society has not been

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