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A review by worldlibraries
I Have the Right to Be a Child by Alain Serres
5.0
Former President of the United States Jimmy Carter says in his book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power that the biggest reason women don't pursue their human rights is because they don't know them. And once women and children do know their rights, they pursue them immediately.
Which begs the question: do all the children in your circle know their human rights? Why not ensure they do by giving this picture book and others like it as a baby shower gift? While there are other picture books on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I can't figure out why this is the only picture book about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Why is that? Shouldn't every child in the world have a book that teaches them about a human rights convention pertaining solely to children? Even children in the United States whose government won't sign the convention?
As a USA citizen, it's easy to see why our government hasn't signed this treaty that the world's diplomats got together and created to make sure that children's rights, IN PARTICULAR, are protected. Apparently, one of the rights signatories promise children in their countries is the right to health care (the USA refuses to deliver that to all of its children). Also, the right not to be separated from one's parents (the USA is currently separating children from their parents at the border on a daily basis and keeping refugee children in cages), the right to a first and last name (the USA is currently keeping inadequate records on all of the children separated from their parents at the border so that children's names are lost and parents and children can't be reunited.
I'm glad that other countries do believe in these rights for their youngest citizens. Maybe someday, the USA will too. I'm not holding my breath.
I noticed on YouTube that there are multiple translations of this book. I would only buy the version that has been translated by Helen Mixter. The other translations have some interpretations that don't make sense.
Citations:
Children not being able to keep their own names, also separated from their own families never to be reunited https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/03/feds-thousands-of-separated-migrant-children-will-never-be-reunited.html
4.3 million American children without health care in 2018: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/09/uninsured-rate-for-children-in-2018.html
Which begs the question: do all the children in your circle know their human rights? Why not ensure they do by giving this picture book and others like it as a baby shower gift? While there are other picture books on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I can't figure out why this is the only picture book about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Why is that? Shouldn't every child in the world have a book that teaches them about a human rights convention pertaining solely to children? Even children in the United States whose government won't sign the convention?
As a USA citizen, it's easy to see why our government hasn't signed this treaty that the world's diplomats got together and created to make sure that children's rights, IN PARTICULAR, are protected. Apparently, one of the rights signatories promise children in their countries is the right to health care (the USA refuses to deliver that to all of its children). Also, the right not to be separated from one's parents (the USA is currently separating children from their parents at the border on a daily basis and keeping refugee children in cages), the right to a first and last name (the USA is currently keeping inadequate records on all of the children separated from their parents at the border so that children's names are lost and parents and children can't be reunited.
I'm glad that other countries do believe in these rights for their youngest citizens. Maybe someday, the USA will too. I'm not holding my breath.
I noticed on YouTube that there are multiple translations of this book. I would only buy the version that has been translated by Helen Mixter. The other translations have some interpretations that don't make sense.
Citations:
Children not being able to keep their own names, also separated from their own families never to be reunited https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/03/feds-thousands-of-separated-migrant-children-will-never-be-reunited.html
4.3 million American children without health care in 2018: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/09/uninsured-rate-for-children-in-2018.html