World Children's Day is celebrated today, November 20. An anniversary that arouses more than one reflection and many critical issues. “There is nothing to celebrate - writes Andrea Iacomini, spokesman for Unicef Italy -, indeed it must be a day of silence, without hypocritical indignations or rhetoric about the future of girls and boys, we can't take it anymore”.
"The 1989 Charter, the most ratified Treaty in the world on childhood and adolescence - he continues -, is today the most violated, torn apart by our indifference and inaction in the face of children who die of cold on the borders of Europe and continue to lose their lives at sea. And what about the children in Afghanistan who are bearing the brunt of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis? 14 million of them have no food to eat, we've been saying this for months, is out of the question. "
"Today - he concludes - I decided not to publicly celebrate this day, to symbolically turn off my social networks to express all my solidarity and closeness to the children of the planet, victims of the impotence of us adults".
(Unioneonline / ss)
