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Poverty, infant homicide every three seconds, is considered the main cause of child rights’ violation. Everyday thirty thousand young humans die because of not having a place to live or not being able to eat the main amount of food we need everyday.
We define poverty as “the situation where a human finds himself at, in which he does not have the basic needs to live”, however we should not accept that definition when we are talking about children, because they need more than just survive, a child needs to be in a situation where he gets educated, where he gets medical help if he needs it, where he has a safe place to be at, in conclusion a situation where the child is happy.
Statistics show that one thousand million children are in a poverty situation because of their family's or country's economy. This means that tonight that amount of children are going to sleep (if they can), without having had dinner before, without having ingested drinking water, and this is directly affecting their happiness.
To sum up, I want to say that even though governors of the developed countries, affirm that it is one of the worst problems we have to fight against, I do not think that they truly think so since they have not respected most of the agreements signed in the last Children Rights`committee meeting.
In my opinion, to respect them, it is necessary to erase poverty from all over the world, I know there would be many years until we get through that point, but I hope we are able to witness the whole happy humankind in this world before human beings can be happy in other worlds…
Pablo Mena, collaborator of Aequitas25 group