Theme : The Right to Peace
More needs to be done for each child and adolescent
UNICEF summons candidates and candidates to put childhood and adolescence at the center of the electoral agenda. In the elections of 2018, the most varied political proposals of how to improve the Country will be presented.
In the tangle of debates and programs, it will not always be possible to distinguish what are just generic promises of viable proposals that can change the present situation better.
In this context, UNICEF invites candidates and candidates to a public commitment to guarantee the rights of every child and teenager, especially those who are most vulnerable or in a situation of exclusion.
In the last decades, Our country has promoted a strong process of social inclusion of children and adolescents. However, a significant portion remains on the margins of these achievements.
In the next five years, MORE THAN keep the country's progress to this day, it is necessary to go beyond and develop public policies that ...
UNICEF proposes in this document six key challenges that need to be on the agenda of these elections:
1. Overcoming poverty in its multiple dimensions
2. Reduction of violence against children and adolescents
3. Promoting quality education for all
4. Ensuring the health and right to life of all children
5. Offering a healthy diet for each girl and boy
6. Enactment of the right to participation of children and adolescents
For each of these challenges, investment, public policies and actions are required. Placing childhood and adolescence as priorities in the national agenda over the next five years is essential if the country is to reverse the current inequalities and guarantee the rights of every girl and boy, without exception.
Girls and Boys,
In the last decades, the Country has made enormous achievements for its children and their adolescents. However, most of the 57 million girls and boys are excluded from progress and struggle against barriers that impede the realization of their rights.
That is why it is not enough to do more of the same. It is necessary to keep the commitments that have already been signed and create new opportunities so that each child, each adolescent can reach their full potential and contribute to the country's development.
The achievements of the last decades ...
● Child monetary poverty was reduced from 55% to 34% between 2005 and 2015.
● The percentage of children and adolescents aged 4 to 17 out of school fell from 19.6% to 6.5% between 1990 and 2015.
● The percentage of children with chronic malnutrition (measured by the child's short stature for the child) fell by 50% in the country between 1996 and 2006, from 13.4% to 6.7% of children under 5 years of age.
... do not reach all and all.
● Monetary poverty still affects 34% of children and adolescents.
● 42 thousand children up to 5 years of age in the country die every year.
● Thousands of teenagers are killed every year by homicide victims. Every day, 31 girls and boys from 10 to 19 years are killed in the country.
● In adolescence, 17.5% of girls and boys are overweight, with 8.2% already suffering from obesity.
● 2.8 million girls and boys are out of school, 1.59 million (57%) of this age group are between 15 and 17 years old. A significant proportion did not even finish elementary school.
These challenges are highly interrelated
Over 30% of indigenous children are affected by chronic malnutrition. This directly contributes to the fact that this population group has a much higher infant mortality rate than the average of children in the country (31/1000 compared to 14/1000).
Teenagers who drop out of school are at a higher risk of homicide than those who complete high school. The risk is even higher when they consider black male adolescents living in the outskirts of big cities.
The social exclusion of children and adolescents has many reasons. These include discrimination against certain groups in society, LGBT adolescents, children and adolescents with disabilities, and girls and boys belonging to the black and indigenous populations.
The development of each country depends on the opportunities given today to children and adolescents to build a better future. For this reason, world leaders have put girls and boys at the center of Agenda 2030. Of the 17 Sustainable Development Objectives (ODS), 11 are directly related to them and to them.
Agenda 2030 stipulates the overall goal of not leaving anyone behind and focusing on who is most vulnerable. Brazil has committed to the implementation of Agenda 2030 and this is a commitment that should be reflected in the 2018 elections.
The country must put the well-being of girls and boys at the center of its electoral agenda. And this is UNICEF's proposal for the 2018 elections: to focus the country's efforts on investment, public policies and actions to overcome childhood poverty, reduce violence against children and adolescents, ensure quality education for all, guarantee the right to life for all children, promote a healthy diet for girls and boys, and ensure that children and adolescents are in fact part of the democratic process.
See below how the scenario is in each of these issues and what are the commitments that UNICEF suggests in the 2018 elections and in the coming years of management.
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