GLOBAL CHILDREN

    12/30/12

   GLOBAL CHILDREN

   Global children issue includes lots of problems which are so important in each child's especially each girl's life. If we look at some of the numerical data, we can understand that we’ve indeed priviliges according to them.  

   We can get a good education in a good college or school, find food easily even we’re always picky while we’re eating something. And we always say that to our mums: «Mum, Is there anything else?» Let’s make a guess about how the other children’s lives are.

  Some Numerical Data

  THE GLOBAL GIRL

Women bear 100% of world’s children

Women are 52% of world population

Women grow 60% of world’s food

Women do at least 66% world’s work

Women earn <10% of world’s income

Women own less than 1% of world’s property

      You can consider that it’s not the same in your country or some parts of the world. But think about Afghanistan or Nigeria. Global children issue is really current and important. Child labor, child mortality, poverty, trafficking, child health, education, gender inequality(it’s really common in lots of places: man≠woman), abuse, malnutrition, discrimination, addictions, child marriage, child soldiers are mentioned in Global children. THAT’S NOT ALL!

    VOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE:

    ON POVERTY AND EDUCATION

Children are the hardest hit by poverty: it causes lifelong damage to their minds and bodies.

More than half a billion children live on less $1 a day.

Education is the key endind poverty.

More than 100 million children are out of school because of poverty, discrimination, or lack of resources.

«For six years, my school has been a railroad car. It’s difficult to learn. There is not glass in the windows. During the summer it’s impossible to stay cool and during winter it’s impossible to stay warm… I don’t have any gloves, so it’s terrible to write. After one or two lessons in the cold, the teachers usually let us leave.»

                                                                            Isa, 17, Azerbaijan

U.N CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD:

EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO:

Live and grow

A name and nationality

Be registered at birth

Not to be seperated from their parents againts their will

Speak and be heard

Not to be trafficked or sold into any form of slavery

Learn about the world through newspapers, books, radio and television

Freedom of expression, thought, conscience and religion

Privacy

A healthy, unpolluted environment

Special care if disabled

A safe place to live

Protection from illegal drugs

Enough food and clean water

Free education from birth to age 18

His or her own culture and language

Learn about his or her own rights

Health care and protection from disease

 CHILD MARRIAGE

 Facts and Figures:

• Globally, 36 percent of women aged 20-24 were married or in union before they reached 18 years of age.
• An estimated 14 million adolescents between 15 and 19 give birth each year. Girls in this age group are twice as likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth as women in their 20’s.
• Marriage of young girls is most common in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, In Niger, 77% of 20 to 24-year-old women were married before the age of 18. In Bangladesh, this rate was 65 percent.

“Thanks to Governor’s Institute of VT, Simon and Global Children issue group! I had a chance to share my opinions and form a judgment about realities of the world at GIV! :))