What does Kosovo do for her children?

The International Convention on the Rights of the Child was approved 30 years ago. Despite this historical text, the situation of children is still alarming in many parts of the world. We are convinced that there is much work in Kosovo as regards respect for human rights, and in particular, children's rights.

In 1989, 196 countries in the world signed the Convention approved by the United Nations General Assembly, which is the most ratified human rights treaty in history. From then on, children have their rights: healthy and secure growth and development of their potential.

What does Kosovo do for her children in this regard?

In many countries there is extreme variation, open conflict has erupted in some other countries, and in some rich lands, we can say that most children have exceptional physical, educational, and medical conditions, says Philip Jaffé, a specialist at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Children.

According to figures from the Federal Statistics Office, 1031,000 children were affected by poverty in Switzerland in 2017.

How many Kosovo children live in the farm, and what are the concrete steps the state of Kosovo has put in action to alleviate the poverty of its children.

Seven million children are deprived of their freedom in the world, in various institutions, says a United Nations study.

Children are also imprisoned in conflicts. They are often in prison because they have no one to care for.

In Iraq and Syria alone, about 30,000 children of the group “Islamic State” have been exiled and we have no idea that these children there are at risk of violence and rape.

Kosovo, has identified its children in “this conflict”? If so, what are its shares in repatriating them? These children require special and careful treatment.

In protecting Kosovo's children's rights, especially in their healthy and secure growth, we have parameters that make them deeply worried: how many Kosovo children feed poorly, suffer from serious diseases, live in extremely difficult conditions in a polluted and without perspective. What is their security objectively in a system where human rights are constantly violated, where those not rarely “are also allowed to access drug or alcohol problems separately to teenagers from 10 to 19.

For all children in the world according to the convention, we owe them the right to develop their potential.

Do Kosovo children have the possibility of developing potential in view of all the circumstances in which they happen?

How ready the family structure is when it is known that the substantial part of parents live on low monthly incomes and in many other cases, even without long - term employment.

What does Kosovo do to develop its children's potential?

A majority of parents find that educational structures are not ready and have no proper conditions in meeting that goal. Reforms made after the time of war have often caused nonchalant to many parents, which does not result in positive in their children either.

Today on the 30th anniversary of the children's Rights, specifically what has Kosovo offered for its children? How many information conferences, how many activities have been made for and with children that they know and manifest their rights?

However, much work remains to be done in protecting and respecting children's rights as should be recognized even through human rights in Kosovo in general.

All of Kosovo's children, from far away, much love and luck!

Mirishahe Limani Hiler, Geneva, November 20, 2019