There will also be Queen Rania of Jordan at the World Summit on the Rights of Children summoned on February 3 in the Vatican on the theme “We love them and protect them”. Organized by the Pontifical Committee for Gmb, chaired by Father Enzo Fortunato, the meeting will be open by ten minors from different parts of the world who will deliver a message to Pope Francis. The summit, as Pope Francis had announced already last November 20, “will be an opportunity to identify new ways aimed at helping and protecting millions of children still without rights, who live in precarious conditions, are exploited and abused, suffer the dramatic consequences of wars ».
The summit is organized in different panels that will deal with themes such as access to resources, education and family. In particular, the first two will discuss the discrimination that achieve the lack of access to economic resources, with the intervention of Mario Draghi, and how children’s rights are trampled in the world. In the panel dedicated to education, Liliana Segre and Miguel Benasayag, Argentine philosopher and psychoanalyst will also intervene. In the panel dedicated to the family, we will focus mainly on the problems of unaccompanied minors and on those who lose the family due to wars and migrations. And the theme of nutrition and health care will still be addressed for minors, of the agaustice in the distribution of food and how wealth should be divided.
The summit, the organizers explained, “aims to identify objectives and solutions to improve the condition of children in the world. Politics can do a lot on this », above all involving more than women in decision -making processes. In addition, it is necessary to analyze the relationship between peace and injustice and reflect on how to eliminate exploitation. According to UNICEF 2023 data there are over 160 million workers in dramatic conditions. Not to mention the impossibility of protecting the smallest Nelel many wars that are devastating entire regions.
Pope Francis will introduce the first two panels and conclude the summit. “I believe that we must place this event in the general framework of the Jubilee of hope: it will be an event of hope,” said Marco Impagliazzo, president of the community of Sant’Egidio and member of the organizing committee. I say with the words of the UN that “we are in a global moral crisis”. And therefore this initiative is particularly appropriate. The world is full of the sadness of children: there are many types of sadness of the children, to whom the Pope wants to return a smile, wants to return a future ».
