Today November 20, in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, Universal Children's Day is celebrated, a day dedicated to fraternity and understanding among the children of the world and destined to activities for the promotion of the welfare and rights of children.
This year UNICEF wanted to emphasize the survival of children in the world, a difficult survival for millions of people and with special emphasis on the more than five million children affected by the recent typhoon in the Philippines.
The United Nations Organization this date also reminds us how vulnerable children are in situations such as natural disasters or wars, and everything that different governments could do to help them. And despite the decline in infant mortality in the world, much remains to be done.
The Syrian war or the typhoon of the Philippines are not the only difficult survival scenarios. Extreme poverty causes the death of 18,000 children every day due to preventable causes (pneumonia, diarrhea or measles), with measures such as vaccines, medications, access to drinking water or treatment for acute malnutrition, which causes half of these deaths.
These are figures for shivering and reflection, but we want to end a message of hope, with the beautiful "doodle" that Google shows today on Universal Children's Day and that represents happy children from different cultures, with a call to solidarity and with the intention of taking care of our children and, also we, not forgetting that we were and being a little more children.
