Millions of children worldwide suffer from poverty, disease, marginalization
Despite being passed over 20 ann
by the Convention of the United Nations that enshrines the rights of chil dren are still millions who continue to suffer poverty, disease and marginalization. In the world 2.1 billion, approximately 35% of world's population. Each year we born about nearly 129 million. Overall, 1 in 4 children live in extreme poverty, fam ily with an income of less than one dollar a day. In developing countries, one child in three lives in extreme poverty. One child in 12 dies before the age of 5 years, mostly from preventable causes.
Worldwide 250 million children in the under 14 years are forced to work among these, according to the International Labor Organization, are 120 million children between 5 and 14 years working full-time, ie about 50%. According to some statistics of UNICEF, in 100 children worldwide, 27 had received no vaccination against the disease, 32 children suffered from malnutrition before age 5, only 44 children were exclusively breastfed in the first three months of life, 18 children have no access to ' drinking water, 39 live in areas without adequate sanitation, 18 children not attending school, and of these, 11 are girls, 25 out of 100 children who begin to attend the first year of primary school do not continue until the fifth year, 17 children out of 100 can not write or read, 11 are girls. The
average life expectancy for children in the world today is 64 years in industrialized countries is 78 years in the 45 countries most affected by HIV / AIDS is 58 years in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the countries most affected by HIV / AIDS, children's life expectancy is less than 43 years.
Half of those living in South Asia are malnourished. One third of sub-Saharan African children has not enough food. One in three children in Albania, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and one in seven in Ukraine, Russia and Armenia is undernourished. In Vietnam 17% of children are born underweight, while 40% of children under 5 years is underweight because of malnutrition.
For the serious phenomenon of street children in Latin American countries are about 30 million children working to help the family of origin, and those living on the street, either permanently or temporarily, are approximately 15 million. AIDS, conflict and poverty are the causes of the African continent. Then the growing number of orphans without protection, in Rwanda, where civil war has nearly 100,000 orphaned children, there are now thousands of children and young people who work and live on the streets in the capital Kigali. And so the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Angola.
These statistics in developing countries come alongside those, no less troubling, poverty and health status of children in European countries are now retreating from the development: almost 18 million children countries of the former Soviet Union and the former Eastern European bloc must live with a pound and a half per day. In Moscow alone there are over 60,000 homeless children, in Budapest are between 10,000 and 12,500, while in Bucharest alone there are over 5,000. Wherever child prostitution is a phenomenon linked to street life: children who work in night clubs, bars and nightspots, or sleep in the streets or train stations are at risk of sexual exploitation.
With regard to disease in the poorest regions of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus cause many deaths each year in Albania, for example, just over half of children between 1 and 2 years vaccinated against these diseases has also increased by 50% of cases of tuberculosis due, as in the former Soviet Union, the proliferation of drug-resistant forms for the use of inappropriate treatments.
( Fides )
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