What about the rights of children in the world wide community? Who speaks up for the youngest citizens of this nation and the war torn countries?
Children are not able to vote. Nor are they able to live safe and productive lives without the help of adults.
We are the elders in the village. We have a responsibility to provide a living enviornment that promotes a healthy and safe childhood.
UNICEF has a series of cartoons that define what the rights of children are in the international community. Each cartoon has a message. They are all about 35 seconds long. But they make the point about what children deserve and need.
6 comments:
Great Post.
remember tho, deb, you can't have a right to the impossible.
and you can't have a right if it deprives another of their rights.
and you can't have a right to something that can only be found in a state of perfection. and we don't exist in a state of perfection.
Griper,
Some of these points are not impossible. They are consistantly bypassed and not acted upon.
I do not believe in Utopia. But I do believe that we can and should be working on universal problems at home and outside of our nation.
Wow ... thank you for taking time to share these video clips with your blog readers. It is wonderful to see the growing number of blogs participating in the monthly 'Am I Not Human?' campaign!
peace, Villager
"Some of these points are not impossible"
ok, deb, which ones?
griper,
First of all, I am a woman of faith. With God all things are possible. Because there is nothing impossible or improbable with God.
I do no disagree with the points you raised. However, I also know that there is no reason that we should not continue to work towards making what is not correct-corrected.
I selected those specific cartoons because I know first hand the impact those situations have on the lives of children. I work with children who are in those very situations. And I also advocate for changes.
We are one of the most wasteful and over indulgent group of people in the world. I have had parents who come from all over the planet express their angst over how careless we are about being a priviledged society. But you cannot convience me that the problems that were presented by members of the international community are not worth trying to change. That may be your answer and your way of belief. That is fine and certainly your choice.
But I believe that there are circumstances and situations that we have got to work on changing. Even when the odds say that we should shirk away from them.
If that had been the belief system of my mothers and fathers before me, we would still be in Virigina on the Hairston plantations. Or accepting the less than human treatment dished out by this nation.
But they did not believe that it could not be done. And neither do I.
Now this may not be the answer you wanted to have a discussion about. But it is the one that I feel best states my position on children.
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