The commemoration of the June 4 aims to promote the protection of child rights, in peace and security without the harmful effects produced by armed conflicts, it is urgent to enhance the protection of children in order to avoid involved in these kinds of struggles (CNDH, 2005).
This June 4 gives us a reason for not silencing the causes of suffering permanent war CHILDHOOD IN THE WORLD and that affects millions of children and girls.
Children and war, some horrifying statistics ...
According to UNICEF
w About half of the 3.6 million people have died in conflicts since 1990 was a minor.
w About 20 million children have had to flee their homes due to wars.
w In Sierra Leone there are absolute rates of mortality under five highest in the world after ten years of civil war: 284 of every 1,000 children do not reach their fifth birthday
w Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to witness acts of violence or to participate. Many of them are forced to become sex slaves or be cooks, servants, messengers or spies.
w In Rwanda, 2,000 women, many of them survivors of rape, were tested for HIV during the five years following the 1994 genocide
w Of these, 80% were ceropositivas. Many had no sexual relations before the war.
w Children and adolescents are recruited to represent a human potential available, malleable and able to perform various tasks on the front lines without measuring risks.
w The use of children in war is an equation that closes perfectly macabre minds.
w In general, children and adolescents obey without objection, may be pushed to commit atrocious acts and are cheaper than adults.
w The proliferation of small arms and light easy to use, such as pistols, revolvers, assault rifles, light machine guns and grenades, it can be used to children as young as 10.
"The social conditioning that idealizes war and teaches young children suppress the sensitivity to be hard not to be afraid, not to mourn, to value victory over all, leading to the development of a "mental machismo" among politicians who decide without considering moral scruples or emotional. His "masculinity" requires the "courage" to make decisions without worrying about can cause suffering in others.
The "cold" when taking decisions, deeply attached to the values of the mystique of masculinity, then shown as the "ultimate expression" of male rationality "
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