the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Today, 20th November, is Universal Children's day, and this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).


The 4 principles of the CRC are;

Survival rights

Protection rights

Development rights

Participation rights


Regarding CRC, many things has been achieved, but the progress is much slower than originally planned. And there are too many children who aren't given the above 4 rights.

As I wrote on top of this blog as vision,
Every child should be protected from conflict, cruelty, exploitation, neglect and abuse, and is given love, safe, peace, and education.

Then, I should do what I can do.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014

To be honest, I don't find any value in the Nobel Peace Prize since Barack Obama won it in 2009.

But this year, remarkable persons, who have been struggling against terrible situation where many children are in, won it. Great!

Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is great, needless to say. However I admire her father more, who knows the importance of education and never stopped his daughter from speaking out even after she was nearly killed by Taliban.

Kailash Satyarth, I didn't know of him.
I've looked at his activities and I found those outstanding. He's been struggling against child labor and exploitation. Also he's developed the scheme of providing education programs so that children who saved from child labor can return to society.

His website;
http://www.kailashsatyarthi.net
https://twitter.com/k_satyarthi

#=#=#=#=# To quote their words, which I like most. #=#=#=#=#

Education is the only solution.
Education First. 
(Malala's speech at the UN. )

If children are deprived of an education, they can't escape from poverty.
(Mailash's comment after wining the Nobel Peace Prize.)


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The photos are from the Norwegian Embassy site.
http://www.norway.or.jp/Embassy/english/news/nobelprize_peace2014/#.VENZPMlZ4UM

Renewed determination

I created this new blog today and imported some articles from my old blog.

Reading those articles after a long interval, I have two impressions.

One is;
My English was much worse than it is now. haha

The other is;
Although it's been no less than 9 years since I determined to create a world where every child can receive education, I can't see any progress. What have I been doing for 9 years?

Take specific actions!