For half of the children of the world, l'
childhood is one period of serious difficulties, affirms UNICEF - These
crucial years are compromised by poverty, the conflicts and the AIDS In spite of quasi universal adoption of standards of protection of lchildhood, a new report/ratio of l' UNICEF indicates that more half of the children of the world suffer from extreme deprivations dependent on poverty, the war and the VIH/SIDA, as many factors which despoil them of their
childhood and delay the development of the nations. By presenting the annual report on the Situation of the children in the world, his tenth, the Managing director of l'UNICEF, Carol Bellamy, declared that more d' a billion d' children were private of lhealthy and protected childhood which the Convention of 1989 relating to the rights of l' promises; child, the treaty of defense of the rights of l' man more accepted world. The report/ratio recalls that l' incapacity of the governments to respect the standards of Convention causes a durable injury with the children and slows down any progress in the field of the rights of man and of economy. “Too many governments take deliberately and in all full knowledge of the facts of the decisions which in practice carry damage to l' childhood”, declared Mrs. Bellamy at the time of the presentation of the report/ratio in London School off Economics. “Poverty does not emerge from nowhere; the war either; the AIDS is not propagated all alone. It s' acts there of our choices, and we let us carry the collective responsibility for there. When half of the children of the world grow by being hungry and in bad health, when the schools are taken for targets and that whole villages are depopulated because of the AIDS, us n' did not hold the promises taken in favour of l' childhood. ” The report/ratio - heading “Childhood in danger” - relates to three of the most important factors and most destroying which threaten l' childhood aujourd' today: the VIH/SIDA, conflicts and poverty. Seven deprivations mortals The report/ratio explains why the children make l' experiment of the poverty differently of the adults and that the traditional indicators of incomes or consumption do not give an account of l' adequately; impact of poverty on the children. He proposes in the place an analysis of the seven basic “deprivations” from which the children suffer and who mortgage their future. With researchers of London School off Economics and of Bristol-board university, UNICEF concluded that more half of the natives under development are private d' one or several goods and services essential with l' childhood. 640 d' million; children n' do not have adequate housing 500 d' million; children n' access to sanitary facilities does not have 400 d' million; children n' access to l' does not have; salubrious water 300 d' million; children n' access to l' does not have; information (tele, radio or newspapers) 270 d' million; children do not profit from health care 140 d' million; children, from the girls for the majority, never went to l' school 90 d' million; children suffer from serious food deprivations It is even more worrying to note qu' at least 700 d' million; children suffer d' at least two deprivations of this type, like l' indicate the report/ratio. The report/ratio also shows that poverty is not limited to the developing countries. In 11 of the 15 industrialized countries for which one has comparable data, the proportion d' children living in households with low-income increased during the ten last years. A war against l' childhood With the bad public stock management, extreme poverty appears among the leading causes of conflicts, in particular interior, the factions armed disputing national resources evil managed. The report/ratio makes the point that 55 of the 59 armed conflicts which occurred of 1990 to 2003 took place with l' interior of country, and not between country. The children paid a heavy tribute: about half of the 3,6 million people killed since 1990 at the time of wars were children, d' after the report/ratio. The children are not saved any more and they are even on the contrary in certain cases taken as targets, thus qu' one could see it in September 2004 at the time of l' attacks against the schoolboys of Beslan (Federation of Russia). The report/ratio also draws up the assessment d' a program in ten points, created by l' UNICEF in 1995, which aims at protecting the children from the conflicts. It also examines the situation of the children soldiers, the rape like weapon of war, the war crimes against the children and the wrong which the sanctions cause, inter alia, and it shows that so progress was made, they are far from being enough to attenuate l' impact of the war on the children. For example, of the hundreds of d' thousands; children are still recruited or removed to be soldiers, sexual violences undergo, are victims of landmines, are constrained d' to be pilot d' acts of violence and of slaughters and are often orphan because of violence. During the years 1990, approximately 20 d' million; children were obliged to leave their hearth following conflicts. The conflicts also have catastrophic effects on the sanitary situation in general. During a five year old “typical” war, the death rate of less than five years increases by 13%, indicates the report/ratio.