🗨️ So I think, it's pretty sick, Israel - while #children in the Middle East are dying because of you, you celebrate the kids of murderers!
#warcrimes

Source: Knesset

MK Shitrit: “This week, #WorldChildrensDay is marked throughout the world, and we in Israel's Knesset have the privilege of marking the day in a special way, with children who almost never receive the platform they deserve—children of reservists and career officers.The State of Israel owes you thanks and recognition (,,)"

Quote from António Guterres (@antonioguterres):

Every child has the same rights, no matter who they are or where they live.

The future is defined by how we care for the next generation.

This #WorldChildrensDay, let’s listen to children, amplify their voices and unite to build a safe, equal world for every child.

Source: António Guterres (@antonioguterres)
[ https://x.com/antonioguterres/status/1991540528572424372 ]

#Afghanistan

The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Escape at Bedtime”
from A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Childrensliterature #kidlit #childhood #children #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #WorldChildrensDay

See ma mammy
See ma dinner ticket
A pititnma
Pokit an she pititny
Washnmachine…

—Margaret Hamilton, “Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket”
published in NEW POEMS 1972–73: a PEN anthology of contemporary poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn (Hutchinson, 1973)

https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/21

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #childhood #children #Scots #Scotslanguage ##WorldChildrensDay

World Children’s Day isn’t just a date on the calendar.
It’s a reminder that every child deserves a real childhood: no war, no hunger, no violence, no fear of tomorrow.

#WorldChildrensDay

📢 National Roundtable in Bucharest: Upholding Children’s Rights in the Digitalisation of Justice

On this year's #WorldChildrensDay, we’re sharing a milestone in our work to protect #childrights in #justicesystems.

👉 Learn more: https://www.penalreform.org/news/national-roundtable/

#DigitalJustice #PPROChild #AccessToJustice #HumanRights

Trouble is not my middle name.
It is not what I am.
I was not born for this…

—Liz Lochhead, “Listen”
A poem written for the Children’s Panel, to encourage new voluntary members, 2012. Published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon, 2016)

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/fugitive-colours/

#Scottish #literature #childhood #children #poem #poetry #WorldChildrensDay