- The subdelegate, Pilar Trinidad, has highlighted the need to claim the protection enjoyed by minors, especially those in a situation of special vulnerability such as unaccompanied foreign children.
- The campaign consists of a video that is offered as a pedagogical tool for associations, schools and homes to raise awareness about the rights and inclusion of unaccompanied foreign minors.
The Federation of the Community of Madrid of Associations of Parents of Students (FAPA) “Francisco Giner de los Ríos” has chosen the headquarters of the Delegation of the Government of Spain in the Community of Madrid to present its latest awareness campaign on the rights of children and adolescents which, in this case, also has a foreign minor unaccompanied as protagonist of a video that also brings them closer to the reality of these children.
In video format and designed to serve as a pedagogical tool that they can use in associations, teaching centers and homes are complemented by an exhibition of explanatory panels on the rights of boys and girls that it stars in.
The subdelegate of the Government of Spain to the Community of Madrid, Pilar Trinidad, whose doctoral thesis dealt with “The child in International Human Rights Law”, has inaugurated the day, which has been celebrated coinciding with the International Day of Childhood that commemorates the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In her speech, Pilar Trinidad, stressed that talking about the rights of the child has “a special significance in the case of unaccompanied, unprotected foreign children,” and has refused to refer to them with the acronym of “MENAS” as “cosifier.”
He also recalled that “the best interests of the child must inspire all rules” and be “a primary consideration” in any action.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty that was signed on 20 November 1989 and has been in force since 2 September 1990.
It is the first binding treaty at national and international level that brings together in a single text its civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. It is a set of standards for child protection and children’s rights.