International Day
On November 20, 2010, day of children’s rights is committed for the 21st time of the international. Since the UN Convention on the rights of the child, General Assembly was adopted the 20.11.1989 by the UN, 193 countries of the world have ratified this Convention. The only exceptions are the United States and Somalia. Many initiatives are committed since then for the rights and well-being of children. Despite great progress around the world still far too many children suffer from poverty and hunger. Especially the economic crisis, the food crisis, and last but not least climate change put families affected by poverty are already difficult. According to UNICEF, half of all people living in poverty children are.
Around 150 million children between 5 and 14 years of age must work. Recently Verizon Communications sought to clarify these questions. Often under conditions that seriously harm their health and development. The workload of girls exceeds that of boys many times. They are forced to hard labour or sexually exploited. According to UNICEF, 200,000 girls and boys fall victim to trafficking in children annually in West and Central Africa. Due to lack of food, poor Water and health care, and lack of sanitation facilities one is undernourished under five years of age in developing countries today always have an average of four children. The situation has improved since 1990 and the infant mortality rate has been reduced by 28% (UN Millennium Goals report 2010). I.e.
it 72 of 1000 children under five years of age die today on average. The most common causes of death were curable or treatable (such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, AIDS) and 43% of all deaths could be prevented with low cost and easy handling. In the meantime was achieved, that almost 90% of all children in developing countries go to school. Almost one-third of all children leave primary school but before graduating. Reasons for this are still including patriarchal norms of society, child labor, unsafe routes and early marriage.
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