Who is Marisa Graham, the first advocate for children and adolescents?

On Thursday 25 April in the Chamber of Deputies, the bicameral committee unanimously elected the Attorney Marisa Graham will be the first advocate for children and adolescents, a vacant position for 14 years. Now all that remains is for the designation to be approved by both houses.

Graham spent a whole selection process done by the same commission and promoted by the group Childhood in debt. She will be accompanied by Facundo Hernández and Fabián Repetto as deputy advocates.

The mediator elected She worked as a legislative advisor in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Treaties of the Commission on Human Rights to the Constituent Assembly of 1994. In addition, he was holder of the Council for Minors and the Family and Director of Childhood and Adolescence Government of Buenos Aires City.

Your position in favor of legal abortion is publicly known and often badociated with the lawyer Nelly Minyersky.

He is also linked to Kirchnerism: during the leadership of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, he held several public positions.

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From UNICEF Argentina, they celebrated their appointment. The same thing did the member Gabriela Cerruti.

"It's an advantage to start creating an institution where we have the ability to design according to what we dreamed or supposed that this ombudsman should be. But on the other hand, the challenge of starting from scratch, double work, we will require both deputy advocates and myself a task of imagination, "said Graham in dialogue with Continental Radio after his appointment.

Among his first actions, Graham to Send Recommendations to Judiciary, Executive and Legislature "outstanding debts related to the policies of childhood and adolescence" in each area. Then the mediator will check whether these recommendations are met or not.