Por: Amnistía Internacional/11-07-2018
Alumnos y alumnas de colegios de todo el mundo han enviado mensajes de solidaridad a los miles de niños y niñas detenidos y separados de sus familias en la frontera estadounidense como consecuencia de las indignantes políticas sobre inmigración de la administración Trump.
Cientos de escolares de Argentina, Burkina Faso, India, Kenia, Senegal, Tailandia, Togo y Venezuela participaron en la iniciativa prevista para el 30 de junio, Día Mundial de Acción contra la política de inmigración de “tolerancia cero” del gobierno estadounidense. Esta política inhumana ha causado la detención de solicitantes de asilo que han entrado en el país desde México y el traslado forzoso de sus hijos e hijas, en algunos casos a albergues del gobierno alejados miles de kilómetros.
Escolares de entre 9 y 16 años tomaron lápiz y papel para infundir esperanza en los niños y niñas detenidos, y para instar a las autoridades estadounidenses a que respeten los derechos de los niños y niñas y de las personas solicitantes de asilo. La acción, organizada por el programa deEducación en Derechos Humanos de Amnistía Internacional, tiene por objeto empoderar a niños y niñas para que se expresen y se hagan oír sobre esta cuestión fundamental.
“Te llegará la libertad. ¡No te rindas! Estaremos contigo pase lo que pase”, dice el mensaje de una adolescente del sur de Tailandia.
“El hijo o hija de una persona refugiada es como el hijo o hija de un presidente”, dice otro mensaje, escrito por una niña de Kenia, cuyos compañeros y compañeras de clase muestran carteles en los que se lee: “Soy un niño/niña, respeta mis derechos”, “Soy un niño/niña, respeta mi dignidad” y “Pedir asilo no es un delito”.
En Venezuela, una niña dibujó un perro en una jaula, como alusión a los niños y niñas detenidos en jaulas gigantes mientras se tramitan las solicitudes de asilo de sus padres y madres. Su mensaje: “No somos animales”.
El 20 de junio, el presidente Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva en la que afirmaba que iba a poner fin a la separación de las familias, tras la indignación general suscitada tanto en el ámbito nacional como en el internacional. Sin embargo, esta orden poco hace para poner fin a la política de separación de familias y nada para reunir a los más de 2.000 niños y niñas separados a la fuerza de sus progenitores, sino que reafirma la cruel política de detener y enjuiciar a familias que buscan seguridad.
“Las autoridades estadounidenses deben liberar de inmediato a las familias que aspiran a solicitar asilo y respetar su derecho a hacerlo en condiciones justas y humanas”, dice Erika Guevara Rosas, directora para las Américas de Amnistía Internacional. “Ningún menor de edad debe ser arrancado de los brazos de su padre o su madre ni obligado a crecer entre rejas. Es hora de acabar definitivamente con las prácticas inhumanas de separar y detener a las familias”.
Amnistía Internacional imprimirá los mensajes de solidaridad y los entregará a los niños y niñas detenidos y separados, así como a los funcionarios encargados de separar a las familias.
*Fuente: https://www.amnesty.org/es/latest/news/2018/07/children-send-solidarity-messages-to-kids-locked-up-under-trump/
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My family was murdered before I could tie my shoes. As a young boy in Sierra Leone, years that should have been playful and carefree were spent fighting in someone else’s war. For me, childhood was a nightmare; escape always seemed impossible. But when the war officially ended, in 2002, I began finding ways to recover. One of the most important has been an opportunity I couldn’t have imagined as an angry, illiterate, nine-year-old soldier: school.
I am living proof of the transformative power of education. Thanks to hard work and lots of good fortune, I managed to graduate from high school and then university. Now, in just a few months, I will begin graduate classes at the Fordham University School of Law, an unimaginable destination for most of the former child soldiers in my country.
And yet, throughout my brief educational journey, one question has always nagged me: why did luck play such a crucial role? After all,education is supposed to be a universal human right. If only it were that simple.
Today, more than 260 million children are out of school, and over 500 million boys and girls who do attend are not receiving a quality education, as the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunitydiscovered. By 2030, more than half of the world’s school-age children – some 800 million kids – will lack the basic skills needed to thrive or secure a job in the workplace of the future.
Addressing this requires money. But while education may be the best investment a government can make to ensure a better future for its people, education financing worldwide is far too low. In fact, education accounts for just 10% of total international development aid, down from 13% a decade ago. To put this in perspective, developing countries receive just $10 per child annually in global education support, barely enough to cover the cost of a single textbook. In an age of self-driving cars and smart refrigerators, this dearth of funding is simply unacceptable.
Over the past few years, I have advocated on behalf of three global education initiatives – the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (Education Commission), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), and the Education Cannot Wait fund (ECW). I have done so eagerly, because these organizations are working collectively toward the same goal: to raise funds to make quality education for every child, everywhere, more than a matter of luck.
One of the best ways to do this is by supporting theInternational Finance Facility for Education, an initiative spearheaded by the Education Commission that could unlock the greatest global investment in education ever recorded. Young people around the world understand what’s at stake. Earlier this month, Global Youth Ambassadors presented a petition, signed by more than 1.5 million children in some 80 countries, to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling for the UN to support the finance facility.
By leveraging roughly $2 billion in donor guarantees, the finance facility aims to make $8 billion in new funding available to countries that need it most. If adopted widely, the program could make it possible for developing countries to provide quality education to millions more children, including refugees, young girls, and former child soldiers like me.
Politicians often say that young people are the leaders of tomorrow. That’s true; we are. But platitudes not backed by financial support are meaningless. Simply put, the world must unite to fund quality education for everyone. The International Finance Facility for Education – which is already backed by the World Bank, regional development banks, GPE, ECW, and numerous UN agencies – is among the best ways to make that happen.
Twenty years ago, law school was an impossible dream for me. Today, thanks to hard work, global support, and much good fortune, my future is brighter than it has ever been. But my story should not be an exception. To ensure that others can gain a quality education and follow the path that has opened up to me, we must remove luck from the equation.
*Fuente: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/financing-universal-quality-education-by-mohamed-sidibay-2018-05