1. Composed Essay 1
2. Composed Essay 2
Composing the Declaration of World on the Survival, Protection, and Development Rights of Children, concise version 1
1. How many parts is this document (consisting of 17 sections) divided into? Analyze the rationality and coherence of the document's structure.
Response:
The document is divided into three parts:
- Part 1 (from the beginning to 'gain further new experiences'): the introduction, affirming the necessity and importance of actions to ensure a bright future for all children.
- Part 2 Challenges: Highlighting the realities, the statistics about the hardships of life in various aspects, about the perilous situation facing many children worldwide today.
- Part 3 Opportunities: Affirming the basic favorable conditions the international community can leverage to enhance the care and protection of children.
- Part 4 Tasks: Identifying specific tasks that each country and the international community need to undertake for the survival, development of children. These tasks are reasonably articulated and urgent based on the current situation, practical conditions. These three parts of this document are closely related to each other. The first two parts serve as the foundation, the basis for drawing out the contents of the latter part.
2. In the Challenges section, how does the Declaration portray the reality of children's lives worldwide?
Answer:
In the Challenges section, the Declaration comprehensively outlines the specific situations of danger and hardship faced by children globally:
- Becoming victims of war and violence, racial discrimination, invasion, occupation, and colonization by foreign powers.
- Enduring the tragedies of poverty, economic crises, homelessness, diseases, illiteracy, and deteriorating environments.
- Many children perish daily due to malnutrition and illnesses.
3. Through the Opportunities section, what favorable conditions do you see for protecting and caring for children in today's world?
Answer:
- The increasing cooperation among nations and the heightened awareness of the international community in this field. The convention on children's rights serves as a foundation, creating new opportunities.
- International cooperation and solidarity are becoming increasingly effective in various fields, with efforts to disarmament campaigns intensifying, creating conditions for substantial resources to be redirected to serve economic goals, enhance social welfare.
4. The Task section of the declaration has outlined numerous points that each country and the international community need to coordinate efforts. Analyze the comprehensive nature of this section's content?
Answer:
Based on the challenges and opportunities, the document sets forth urgent tasks to be undertaken:
+ Strengthening the health and nutrition of children.
+ Providing care for disabled children and children living in particularly difficult circumstances.
+ Enhancing the role of women in general and ensuring gender equality to realize the benefits of children, especially girls.
+ Ensuring that all children receive basic education and none are left illiterate.
+ Implementing family planning, creating conditions for children to grow and develop on the foundation of the family.
+ Preparing children to lead responsible lives in a free society.
+ For the future of children, urgent measures are needed to ensure or restore even economic growth and development in all countries.
The tasks are both specific and comprehensive, covering all areas (health, education, social), all groups (disabled children, children living in particularly difficult circumstances, boys, girls), and all levels (family, society, nation, international community). The crucial point is that these tasks are articulated with determination, reflecting the high determination of the international community. Section 17 emphasizes: 'These tasks require all countries to make continuous efforts and coordinate with each other in the actions of each country as well as in international cooperation.'
5. Through the declaration, how do you perceive the importance of protecting and caring for children, and the international community's concern for this issue?
Answer:
- Protecting the rights, nurturing the development of children is one of the foremost significant tasks of each country and the international community. This is an issue directly related to the future of a nation, of humanity as a whole.
- Through the principles, policies, through specific actions regarding the protection and care of children, we recognize the level of civilization of a society.
- The issue of protecting and caring for children is receiving significant attention from the international community with specific, comprehensive strategies and tasks.
Composing the Declaration of World on the Survival, Protection, and Development Rights of Children, concise version 2
Structure
- Part 1 (from the beginning to 'gain further new experiences'): the introduction, affirming the necessity and importance of actions to ensure a bright future for all children.
- Part 2 (continuing until 'must respond'): The challenges and tasks this mission poses.
I. Guidelines for Composing
Question 1. The document Declaration of the World on the Survival, Protection, and Development Rights of Children consists of 17 sections. Besides the statement of purpose for participating in the World Summit for Children and recognizing the needs, rights to care for, and develop children, the document is structured into three parts:
- Challenges: Analyzing the reality of children's lives worldwide (children facing the dangers of war and violence, children in the midst of disasters like poverty, economic crises, diseases, drugs...);
- Opportunities: Identifying the favorable conditions in the international context to promote the care, protection of children's rights;
- Tasks: Identifying the tasks that each country and the international community need to undertake for the survival, protection, and development of children. These three parts of this document are closely related. The first two parts serve as the foundation, the basis for drawing out the contents of the latter part.
Question 2. In the 'challenges' section, the Declaration specifically and comprehensively outlines the reality of children's lives worldwide. It includes situations of being exposed to danger, and various hardships:
- Becoming victims of war and violence, racial discrimination, invasion, occupation, and colonization by foreign powers.
- Enduring the tragedies of poverty, economic crises, homelessness, diseases, illiteracy, and deteriorating environments.
- Many children perish daily due to malnutrition and illnesses.
Question 3. Currently, the international context provides basic favorable conditions for implementing the task of protecting and caring for children. These favorable conditions are indicated in the 'Opportunities' section, specifically:
- Connectivity in terms of resources, knowledge among countries: the convention on children's rights;
- International cooperation and solidarity open up possibilities to address issues related to economic development, environmental protection, disease prevention, disarmament campaigns, and enhancing children's welfare.
Question 4. The 'tasks' section of the declaration has outlined numerous points that each country and the international community need to coordinate efforts. The tasks mentioned are specific and comprehensive: from improving health and nutrition to developing education for children, from focusing on priority groups (disabled children, those in particularly difficult circumstances) to promoting gender equality among children, and encouraging children to participate in cultural and social activities.
Question 5. The declaration shows us the importance, urgency, and global nature of the task for the survival, protection, and development rights of children. In the spirit of humanity's future, the Declaration has provided comprehensive action strategies for each country and the international community. This work also requires the attention of every family, every individual in each community.
II. Practice
Question (page 36 of the textbook): The opinion about the care and attention of the local government, of social organizations where you currently reside for children.
Students should connect with the local reality to answer this question.
