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Contents November 20, 2012
Global Day for Children
Convention on the Rights
of the Child
May 2002 World
Conference on Children
Appeal for Ratification
Contents Nov. 20, 2013
UN Universal Children’s
Day 2013
UNICEF, Empathy for the
Filipino Children after Typhoon Haiyan
UN Declaration of the
Rights of the Child
Totten, Children and
Genocide
Sheehan, A Mother’s
Compassion
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The United Nations' (UN) Universal Children's Day is an occasion
to promote the welfare of children and an understanding between children all
over the world. It is held on November 20 each year
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Universal Children's Day, which was established
in 1954, is celebrated on November 20 each year to promote international
togetherness and awareness among children worldwide. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund,
promotes and coordinates this special day, which also works towards improving
children's welfare.
Universal Children's Day promotes the welfare of and
understanding between children.
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Many schools and other educational institutions make a
special effort to inform children of their rights according to the Declaration
of the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Teachers
stimulate their pupils to think about the differences between themselves and
others and explain the idea of “rights”. In countries where the rights of
children are generally well-respected, teachers may draw attention to
situations in countries where this is not the case.
In some areas UNICEF holds events to draw particular
attention to children's rights. These may be to stimulate interest in the media
around the world or to start nationwide campaigns, for instance on the
importance of immunizations or breastfeeding.
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Public life
Universal Children's Day is a global observance and
not a public holiday.
Background
On December 14, 1954, the UN General Assembly
recommended that all countries should introduce an annual event from 1956 known
as Universal Children's Day to encourage fraternity and understanding between
children all over the world and promoting the welfare of children. It was
recommended that individual countries should choose an appropriate date for
this occasion.
At the time, the UN General Assembly recommended that
all countries should establish a Children's Day on an “appropriate” date. Many
of the countries respected this recommendation and the Universal Children's Day
has since been annually observed on November 20. There are however, some
countries, such as Australia
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On November 20, 1959, the UN General Assembly adopted
the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and on November 20, 1989, it adopted
the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Since 1990, Universal Children's Day
also marks the anniversary of the date that the UN General Assembly adopted
both the declaration and the convention on children's rights.
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image of a mother and child, a globe, olive branches and the word “UNICEF”. All
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DECLARATION OF THE
RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 1386 (XIV) of 10 December 1959 |
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WHEREAS the
peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in
fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and
have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in
larger freedom,
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WHEREAS the
United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed
that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein,
without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property,
birth or other status,
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WHEREAS the
child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special
safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as
after birth,
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WHEREAS the
need for such special safeguards has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of
the Rights of the Child of 1924, and recognized in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and in the statutes of specialized agencies and international
organizations concerned with the welfare of children,
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WHEREAS mankind
owes to the child the best it has to give,
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Now,
therefore,
 ProclaimsTHIS DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD to the end that he may have a happy childhood and enjoy for his own good and for the good of society the rights and freedoms herein set forth, and calls upon parents, upon men and women as individuals, and upon voluntary organizations, local authorities and national Governments to recognize these rights and strive for their observance by legislative and other measures progressively taken in accordance with the following principles: |
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enjoy all the rights set forth in this Declaration. Every child, without any
exception whatsoever, shall be entitled to these rights, without distinction
or discrimination on account of race, colour, sex, language, religion,
political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or
other status, whether of himself or of his family.
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The child shall
enjoy special protection, and shall be given opportunities and facilities, by
law and by other means, to enable him to develop physically, mentally,
morally, spiritually and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in
conditions of freedom and dignity. In the enactment of laws for this purpose,
the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration.
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entitled from his birth to a name and a nationality.
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The child shall
enjoy the benefits of social security. He shall be entitled to grow and
develop in health; to this end, special care and protection shall be provided
both to him and to his mother, including adequate pre-natal and post-natal
care. The child shall have the right to adequate nutrition, housing,
recreation and medical services.
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The child who is
physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special
treatment, education and care required by his particular condition.
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The child, for the
full and harmonious development of his personality, needs love and
understanding. He shall, wherever possible, grow up in the care and under the
responsibility of his parents, and, in any case, in an atmosphere of affection
and of moral and material security; a child of tender years shall not, save in
exceptional circumstances, be separated from his mother. Society and the
public authorities shall have the duty to extend particular care to children
without a family and to those without adequate means of support. Payment of
State and other assistance towards the maintenance of children of large families
is desirable.
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entitled to receive education, which shall be free and compulsory, at least in
the elementary stages. He shall be given an education which will promote his
general culture and enable him, on a basis of equal opportunity, to develop
his abilities, his individual judgement, and his sense of moral and social
responsibility, and to become a useful member of society.
The best interests of the child shall be the guiding principle of those responsible for his education and guidance; that responsibility lies in the first place with his parents. The child shall have full opportunity for play and recreation, which should be directed to the same purposes as education; society and the public authorities shall endeavour to promote the enjoyment of this right. |
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all circumstances be among the first to receive protection and relief.
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protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty and exploitation. He shall not
be the subject of traffic, in any form.
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The child shall be
protected from practices which may foster racial, religious and any other form
of discrimination. He shall be brought up in a spirit of understanding,
tolerance, friendship among peoples, peace and universal brotherhood, and in
full consciousness that his energy and talents should be devoted to the
service of his fellow men.
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CHILDREN
VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE: A FATHER’S COMPASSION
THIS IS WHAT KEEPS ME
FOCUSED WHEN DARKNESS OVERTAKES ME
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Dedication
To Patrick Murinzi Minega
and all other
children victimized by
genocide, war, and violence.
Dear All,
Invariably, most serious
scholars of genocide studies are ultimately asked: How can you do this work?
What keeps you going in light of the darkness? The horror?
Many have also asked me:
what prompts you to go to such places as the Nuba
Mountains when the area continues to
be bombed on a daily basis or to such all but God forsaken places as Goz Beida,
along the Chad/Darfur, Sudan
My answer is staring at
you in the face: the above photo of a little guy (Patrick) wish I could say I
had met on one of the thousands of hills in Rwanda
It's also why I firmly
believe that perhaps the most important aspect of my life as far as genocide
studies is concerned, and as far as being a human being is concerned, is my
co-founding The Post Genocide Education Fund with Rafiki Ubaldo, a survivor of
the Rwandan genocide. As many of you know, PGEF provides full scholarships and
living expenses to young survivors of genocide across the globe who wish to
earn a university diploma. (Thus far, we've sponsored students from Rwanda ; Darfur , Sudan ; and the Nuba
Mountains , Sudan
In closing, I wish to
share an excerpt from the introduction of my new and forthcoming edited
book, The Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide,
in which I speak about gazing at Patrick's countenance for the first
time:
Introduction
Samuel
Totten
Generally, when I make my
way through museums dealing with
genocide I fi nd myself
feeling sad and angry but I forge on and make my
way through the exhibits.
Th is, I have done, time and again, beginning
back in 1978 when I fi
rst visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs’
and Heroes’ Remembrance
Authority in Jerusalem , the US
genocide located in the
basement of a church in Deir et Zor (Syria
2005. But then, in 2006,
as I made my way through the museum at the
Kigali Genocide Memorial
Centre in Rwanda
Wing,” and within ten
minutes my heart was shattered. I had only managed
to view a tenth of the
photographs and accompanying information
in the room, but I simply
could not go on. I literally wanted to scream
and fl ay away at a world
that would allow such horrifi c injustice and
atrocities to be
perpetrated.
I shall never forget the
last photo and captions that ripped my heart
apart. It was the
sweetest picture of a young man, Patrick, seven years
of age, I’ve ever seen.
His smile and bright sparkling eyes exuded joy.
Th en, I read the
captions:
Name: Patrick Murinzi
Minega
Favorite Sport: Swimming
Favorite Sweets:
Chocolate
Favorite Person: His Mum
Personality: Gregarious
Cause of Death:
Bludgeoned with Club
Over the years (during
which I served as a Fulbright Scholar at the
Centre for Confl ict
Management at the National University of Rwanda,
and on subsequent
research trips when Rafi ki Ubaldo, a survivor of the
1994 genocide, and I
conducted interviews for our book, We
Cannot
Forget: Interviews with
Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
I returned to the Kigali
Genocide Memorial Centre several times
in order to try to view
all of the photographs and captions in the
“Children’s Wing.” Each
and every time I’d only get so far before I was
overwhelmed with sorrow,
and, yet again, would depart without having
viewed the entire
exhibit. To this day I’ve not viewed the entire
exhibit.
Th e killing of infants,
preschoolers, school-age children, and preadolescents
should be beyond the
pale. Unfortunately, and sadly, it is
not—at least not for
those who are apt to committing crimes against
humanity and genocide.
And it’s not just killing that the latter engage
in, but also the torture
and butchery of babies and young children.
When perpetrators kill
infants and children there is often a sadistic
tone and tenor to their
actions. Th ey seem to enjoy exhibiting their
perverted power over the
victim population. Th ey seem to enjoy crushing
the spirits of those
parents and siblings who are forced to watch
their children and babies
and young brothers and sisters, respectively,
be brutalized in the most
horrifi c ways possible.
THIS, THEN, IS WHY I AM
FIERCELY DEDICATED TO SEEING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE STOPPED IN
THEIR DEADLY TRACKS, AND IT IS WHAT DRIVES ME TO DO WHAT I DO.
Am heading back to the Nuba Mountains Sudan
to South Sudan in search of food and many are
literally dropping and dying each and every day. Last week a colleague I am
working with to insert food into the region reported that he witnessed --
IN A SINGLE DAY -- 20 individuals (mainly elderly men
and woman and infants and young children) who had keeled over and perished
along the way. That is obscene. Unconscionable. And it's way I've been
haranguing Members of Congress, The White House and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, among others, to yank off their purposely placed blinders and
OPEN THEIR EYES to the reality of the world we all live in and do something to
try to ameliorate the horrors -- NOW, not next week, not next month, not next year.
Each day that goes by another human
being, like you and I, like your children and grandchildren, will perish in
that desert wondering why no one but no one has reached out to them as those
with the means would surely wish others would do for them should they find
themselves in such dire straits.
Sorry for the soapboxing.
That was not my intent!
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for what you do to try to make the world a better place.
warmly,
sam
A MOTHER’S COMPASSION
Children and
War By Cindy Sheehan
June 13 2011 "Information
Clearing House" -- Recently, I was listening to
KGO radio and in case you don’t know, KGO is the ABC affiliate super-station
here in San Francisco that can be heard by millions of people with it’s
mega-wattage transmitter.
Gene Burns happened to be the host at that time. The night
that I was listening, Mr. Burns was wondering why the U.S. is bombing Libya,
but not Syria, because Syria is, “torturing and killing children,” and Mr.
Burns didn’t know how the people of the world could stand by and watch this
happen.
I wish I could have gotten through on the call-in line
because I would have asked Mr. Burns how he feels about the
It is my suspicion that even the most hardcore war
supporter knows that women and children are the ones that suffer the most from
war—but as War Madam, Madeline Albright notoriously said in an interview with
Lesley Stahl of CBS: the slaughter of over 500,000 Iraqi children during the
sanctions period during the Clinton regime was “worth it.” Monsters don’t
always have to have long claws, bloody fangs, or inhabit our nightmares—they
can look like somebody’s Grammy—and that’s what I call a waking terror.
As a mother of a victim of US
Imperialism, my well of
empathy is bottomless, but I am not like Gene
Burns—I don’t think we should just be upset when “rogue” regimes kill or
torture children—because the
Because of the definition of “collateral damage” (“We
don’t do body counts,” General Tommy Franks), it is hard to pin down the exact
number of children that have been killed by the US’s War OF Terror since
2001—in fact, it’s almost impossible, but a safe guesstimate is hundreds of
thousands. However, one was exactly one too many.
What I can do for you is tell you
some statistics on how children are treated here in the
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Republican, first term 320 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-4843 Fax: (202) 228-1371 Arkansas offices: FORT SMITH: (479) 573-0189 JONESBORO: (870) 268-6925 LITTLE ROCK: (501) 372-7153 LOWELL: (479) 725-0400 MOUNTAIN HOME: (870) 424-0129 STUTTGART: (870) 672-6941 EL DORADO: (870) 863-4641 Website: www.boozman.senate.gov
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Pryor
Democrat, second term 255 Dirksen Office Building Constitution Avenue and First Street NE Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-2353 Fax: (202) 228-0908 Little Rock office: (501) 324-6336 Website: www.pryor.senate.gov |
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Rep. Rick
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1ST DISTRICT Republican, second term 1771 Independence Avenues SE Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4076 Fax: (202) 225-5602 CABOT: (501) 843-3043 MOUNTAIN HOME: (870) 424-2075 Website: www.crawford.house.gov
Rep. Tim
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2ND DISTRICT Republican, second term 1232 Independence Avenues SE Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-2506 Fax: (202) 225-5903 LITTLE ROCK: (501) 324-5491 Website: www.griffin.house.gov
Rep. Steve
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3RD DISTRICT Republican, second term 1119 Longworth Office Building New Jersey and Independence Avenues SE Washington 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4301 Fax: (202) 225-5713 Arkansas offices: ROGERS: (479) 464-0446 HARRISON: (870) 741-7741 FORT SMITH: (479) 424-1146 Website: www.womack.house.gov
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