New storm on the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, harshly criticized also by the United Nations for having shown himself in recent days at a public event in Belo Horizonte while holding on his shoulders a child dressed as a military man and with a weapon in his hand. All claiming to be in favor of minors playing with weapons, just like he did as a child.

As mentioned, after the incident the UN Committee for the Rights of the Child issued a note which "vehemently condemned the use by President Bolsonaro of children, dressed in military clothes and with what appears to be a weapon. toy, to promote its political agenda ”.

"Brazil - adds the UN statement - is a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Protocol on the Participation of Minors in Armed Conflicts", states the text of the Committee, which also asked the Brazilian government to "suspend immediately and the urgent use of children in military clothing and the removal of their images in the media ".

(Unioneonline / lf)

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