Universal Children's Rights Day
In the Universal Children's Rights Day we would like to recall that the Fair Trade establishes, as a fundamental principle, the absence of forced labour and exploitation of child labour. This ensures that no child performs work that affects his or her physical, mental, social or spiritual development. Nor that may interfere with their educationor which are carried out under abusive, dangerous and harmful conditions endangering their health or safety, or which are carried out under abusive, dangerous and harmful conditions endangering their health o integrity.
The 20 November is an important day for children:
- Since 1954 it has been the Universal Children's Day.
- Since 1959 we have been celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
- In 1989 the Convention of the Rights of the Childthe most universal of the international treaties.
Support Child Rights
When you choose Fair Trade products you are preventing many of the world's children from working in unsafe conditions. slavery. This happens on many conventional cocoa plantations. Believe it or not, there are shattering realities of child exploitation. They are experienced daily by millions of children in the world's cocoa African cocoa plantations. Child labour and the most savage forms of exploitation and slavery suffered by minors on these plantations are not an isolated or inevitable event, but the consequence of a unfair trading system. Based solely on the economic benefit of a few.
#EnseñaFairtrade - Fairtrade Month
On Universal Children's Rights Day, as part of the celebration of the Universal Day of Children's Rights, the Fairtrade MonthWe have joined the Fairtrade Ibérica campaign. #EnTeachFairtrade. From AlterNativa3, with our project Fairtrade School Networkwe work for teach children the transformative power of Fair Trade, as well as the importance of an everyday act such as buy has to improve the reality for many children in the producing countries of the South.
This #MisFairtrade #EnTeachFairtrade!
If you want to know more about the Fair Trade and the power of it to fight for children's rights, click here. here.
- 20-11-18
