Tehran – National Children’s Week will be held nationwide from October 7th to 13th, with the theme of “children, the joys of life.”
This day highlights the fact that every child has the right to have a happy and safe childhood. Children are entitled to grow up in a peaceful environment regardless of their skin color, race, nationality, religion or social class, ISNA quoted Seyed Javad Hosseini, the head of welfare organizations.
This is an opportunity to remember that children are a society’s wealth, and we are all responsible for providing children with an opportunity-filled, safe, loving environment and helping them experience happiness in life, he added.
The official further said that giving special consideration to children with disabilities, effective and competent parents, child labour and street children and children covered by the Welfare Organization is not only a human and social responsibility, but also an investment in the future of the country and a more just society.
Each day of the week is celebrated with a focus on a specific topic.
Tuesday, October 7th, “Beautiful World of Family and Children,” Wednesday, October 8th, “Earth, Our House,” Thursday, October 9th, “Life, Play, Health,” Friday, October 10th, “Comet” (memorializes the memories of children and young people who were martyred in Iran and Gaza), Saturday, October 11th, “Books, Amazing World of Children,” and Sunday, October 12th, “Sweet World of Children with Special Books,” Needs,” and Monday, October 13th, “Children and Modern Science World of Technology.”
Protecting children’s rights leads to a better world
World Children’s Day was first established in 1954 as World Children’s Day and is celebrated annually on November 20th with the aim of promoting international unity, awareness of children around the world and improving child welfare.
November 20th is the day the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1959, and is an important day. This was also the day the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989.
Since 1990, World Children’s Day is also the anniversary of the day when both the Declaration and the Convention on the Rights of the Child were adopted at the UN General Assembly.
Mothers and fathers, teachers, nurses and doctors, government leaders and civil society activists, religious and local elders, corporate tycoons and media experts, and young people and children themselves can also play an important role in making World Children’s Day meaningful to their society, communities and nations.
World Children’s Day provides each of us with an inspirational gateway to advocate, promote and celebrate the rights of our children, leading to dialogue and action to build a better world for our children.
Protecting children’s rights is a compass to a better world today, tomorrow and for the future.
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