Description
This date commemorates the approval of the “Convention on the Rights of the Child”, which was approved as an International Treaty on November 20, 1989. This Convention, as the first International Law on the rights of children, is mandatory for the Signatory states. For this reason, the Valladolid City Council, through the Department of Education, Childhood, Youth and Equality, works not only on this day, but throughout the year in compliance with the rights of children, working with the Entities of Children to establish a higher degree of protection that defends boys and girls from exploitation, abuse and violence.
For this reason, the Valladolid City Council has wanted to commemorate this date with the celebration of an institutional act chaired by the mayor, Óscar Puente, together with the councilor for Social Services and Community Mediation, Rafaela Romero, and which has had the intervention of the president from UNICEF Castilla y León, María Eugenia García. Different representatives of the political groups of the City Council have read the Declaration prepared by UNICEF.
In addition, for the eighth consecutive year, the “Traveler Backpack” to the institutes and colleges of secondary education of the city.
The “Traveling Backpack” project, organized by the Department of Education, Childhood and Equality, was born at the end of 2015 and its objective is to promote, through reading, the education of our schoolchildren and their families in values of respect, equality gender and zero tolerance to violence in all its forms. The 2021 Traveler Backpack contains four publications that are intended to serve as a reading so that both students and their families can educate in egalitarian values, breaking gender roles and stereotypes from the earliest ages. The books chosen this year are: “Under the blue umbrella” by Elena Martínez, “Women of Science” by Rachel Ignotofsky, “Sweet Sisteen” by Annelise Heurtier e “History of Brisa and more Stories” by Julio Machargo.
Also included in the traveling backpack is the story that was the winner of the V Contest of stories for equality convened by the Department of Education, Childhood, Youth and Equality in 2017 in the youth modality entitled “The talk” scored by Juan Pablo Arredondo when we have the information.
Likewise, a copy of the UNICEF document of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has been included in each backpack, in original version and in version adapted for young people, as well as informative posters on the operation of the United Nations Convention.
The event ended with a musical performance by the students of 6th grade of the Gabriel y Galán school.
All schools participating in the “Traveling Backpack” initiative have received material prepared by the Department of Education, Childhood, Youth and Equality to commemorate Universal Children’s Day, which in 2021 bears the slogan “Do you know what our powers are? Our rights.”
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