Christians observe December 28 as a day for remembrance of all children of the world who are being, at this moment, forced into military service, sex slavery, hard labor preventing education, and violent oppression of many sorts.
This observance does not relate easily with the commercial spirit of Christmas and New Years. All the better reason to temper happiness of some in order to raise to consciousness the terror of many.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a global effort to not only raise consciousness but to affect the real life situation of many children in many world regions. Child as Citizen is the title of a collection of papers on this issue and makes up the January, 2011 edition of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
People of all religions or of no religion can join in this observance and share efforts to raise awareness as well as change legislation and practices across the globe.
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- Delton Krueger
- Being in my upper 80s means that I have more experience than energy. This is simply my experience.
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