CUBA: Top-ranking devoloping country regarding protection of children's rights

[magbana]

JUVENTUD REBELDE

Cuba leads way in children rights
Cuba is the top-ranking developing country when it comes to protecting
children's rights, according to a new Child Development Index (CDI).

By: Tim Anderson

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2009-01-29 | 12:12:48 EST

http://www.juventudrebelde.cip.cu/cuba/2009-01-29/
cuba-leads-way-in-children-rights/

This ranking reflects Cuba's progress since the 1990s in child health,
nutrition and education, despite considerable difficulties,

Save the Children UK, an independent children's rights organisation,
says it is "outraged that millions of children are still denied proper
healthcare, food, education and protection".

It has developed the CDI as part of its strategy to "hold governments
to account for children's wellbeing".

The index is constructed from three indicators: health (a scaled
probability of death under the age of five), nutrition (the percentage
of under fives who are moderately or severely underweight) and
education (the percentage of primary-school aged children who are not
enrolled in school).

A low score indicates low child deprivation. Cuba's progress in recent
years raised it from second place in Latin America (after Argentina)
in the 1990s to first place in the period 2000-06.

Latin America was also the region with greatest improvement in recent
years, mostly from reductions in child mortality and increased school
enrolments. East Asia was the second most improved region.

Costa Rica and Argentina were second and third in both the Latin
American and the developing country lists.

While wealthy OECD countries topped the list, the US, by contrast,
went backwards. It now ranks 23rd in the world on children's rights —
after Cuba, Costa Rica and Argentina.

The poor US performance was largely due to deterioration in primary
school enrolments.

Save the Children UK observes that, worldwide, more than 9 million
children under five die every year, one quarter of all children are
underweight and 75 million primary school-aged children are not
enrolled in school.

The group says that the basic rights of children all around the world
"continue to be violated and denied' and proposes "dramatic action" to
reverse the slowdown in progress on child malnutrition, efforts to
convert economic growth into benefits for children and "a significant
effort" to promote girls' education.

[roody]

1. Those damn commies!

[Judi Lynn]

2. Do you remember the Miami Cubans tried to tell the world, during the detainment of Elián Gonzalez,

that if he went back to Cuba, he would become the property of the Cuban government?

They really can't resist shoveling that stuff out. They apparently think we're all idiots, and unfortunately, they've got a few Americans they can use as evidence! There are some of us who ARE stupid enough to believe that crap.

Anyone who takes the time to start looking into what the actual circumstances are for Cuban children, and how they differ from ALL other environments in the Caribbean, in Latin America, even in the U.S. will be gradually led to amazement. The opportunities they have created for their children in education, and in wellness, and in a much more cohesive society are impressive, to put it mildly.

The only road to knowing about this comes from within a person. They have to want to find out about it first, and that means letting go of the clearly erronious information which was given to us all long ago via corporate media, and common misperception based on propaganda. If propaganda didn't work, governments wouldn't hire people to grind away at it night and day, molding public perception about their "enemies."

People can step out of the fog, and educate themselves by doing all the research personally. It's the only way which works, apart from going to the site in person and digging in, getting to know people, finding out in the flesh. That door is nailed shut for most Americans who are afraid to go to Cuba through a third country, afraid of being found out here, and fined, publicly shamed, and possibly incarcerated for the terrifying crime of going to Cuba.

One other good way to find out about Cuba is to talk to people who have been there, who've been there a LOT, and who have been SOBER while being in Cuba! Finding people who actually have friends and acquaintances there, who know their way around there, have been there to STUDY, to observe over time, or, in the case of one DU'er here, to actually TEACH, and to WORK there is a real discovery! They are worth MORE than their weights in gold.

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