The Truth and Childhood Commission was established to clarify serious and systematic violations of human rights suffered by children and adolescents under state custody from 1979 to 2024, a mandate that derives directly from international obligations assumed by Chile, such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child's report (2018), and the ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the case of Adolescent Reclusion centers vs. Chile, which is currently under international supervision.