November 20 marks the International Children's Day, a day dedicated to fraternity and understanding among the children of the world and destined to activities for the promotion of their well-being and rights.
In 1954, the General Assembly of the United Nations recommended that a Universal Children's Day be established in all countries and the UN celebrates that day on November 20, in commemoration of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959 and of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
The truth is that this commemoration takes place on different dates depending on the country, although there are many places that do not reach this interest or that attention to children.
Countries where children are exploited, where they work, where they do not have access to decent education, or medical attention ... We remember these distant situations very often, but especially a day like today.
Many cities celebrate different activities for the November 20, International Children's Day. I hope you enjoy this date with your children, and I leave you with a beautiful poem by Pablo Neruda, "The son", which describes "the terrible love" that chains us to children, a tribute to childhood:
Oh son, you know, where do you come from? From a lake with white and hungry seagulls. Next to the winter water, she and I raised a red fire, spending our lips kissing our souls, throwing everything into the fire, burning our lives. That's how you came to the world. But she to see me and to see you one day crossed the seas and I to embrace her small waist all the earth I walked, with wars and mountains, with sands and thorns. That's how you came to the world. From so many places you come, from the water and the earth, from the fire and the snow, from so far you walk towards the two of us, from the terrible love that has chained us, that we want to know how you are, what you tell us, because you know more Of the world we gave you. Like a great storm we shake the tree of life to the most hidden fibers of the roots and now appear singing in the foliage, on the highest branch that we reach with you.
