The democratic
countries are defending child's rights. The United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty which was signed
in 1989. Currently, 194 countries are party to it. Even though
nations that ratify this convention are bound to it by international
law there are some countries where those rights are not respected.
Today
we are in the 21st century and even if in our country children's rights are
respected, there are still a lot of countries where child labor
is not eradicated. The two continents where the situation is the most
serious are Africa and Asia.
Most of children's
mornings look the same. They wake up and get out of their bed. They
eat whatever they want for breakfast. After that they put there
clothes on and go to school. During that time thousands of children
are exploited in the world. They get up earlier. They eat just enough
to survive and go straight to work. They work all day but they will
never have the quality of life that those other children have got
without working.
Child labor
means not having family, friends, life and fun. It is harmful to
physical and mental development.
Some charities like
the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) created in 1946, aim at
eradicating child labor. You can get involved in that kind of
charity by becoming a donor, raising money or voluntering.
Education is also
one of the children's rights. But like the law against child labor,
it is not respected. In some poor countries where there are wars,
children don't have access to education and especially girls.
However, according to UNICEF, education is a tool that has proven that it is improving living conditions. That's why there are people who are struggling for girls' education like Malala Yousafzai.
However, according to UNICEF, education is a tool that has proven that it is improving living conditions. That's why there are people who are struggling for girls' education like Malala Yousafzai.
Malala Yousafzai is
a seventeen years old Pakistani activist for right to education to
women. She wrote a blog for BBC about her life under the Taliban
occupation, her hope to keep going to school and her fears for the
future at the age of eleven. "For my brothers it was easy to
think about the future," "They can be anything they want.
But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become
educated and empower myself with knowledge”.
In 2012, Talibans
attempted assassinating Malala by shooting on her when she was in her
school bus. She was transferred to an hospital in the UK.
On
her 16th
birthday, nine months after the shooting Malala stood up at the UN
headquarters in New York and addressed to a specially
convened
youth assembly. Her speech was broadcast around the world. In 2014,
she was nominated to the children's Nobel Prize. The Malala fund
raises money for girls education.
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By Loredana Craciun
It's so hard to believe that this kind of thing is still happening nowadays. Working and war children have such bad living conditions and I don't understand how adults can inflige this kind of things to kids.
ReplyDeleteI think it is horrible such things still happen in 2014.
ReplyDeletethat's horrible, when i read articles like this, i just feel lucky for being a healthy, educated child.
ReplyDeleteHow cou things like that could happen in the 21 century?! This is terrible!
ReplyDeleteI think we all have the same reaction such as "how all of that can happen in the 21th century?". But unfortunatelly it does happen, but we can help. They are loads of organisagions which collects money for education or even food, like you said we can donnate money. I am sure that you do not have to give 100000€ (well you can if you want to), althought you can offer 50€ it's better than nothing.. Your article was very interesstant, thank you for sharing it.
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