The National Early Childhood Network (RNPI) – a group of 220 organizations from civil society, government and the business world
al and sectoral networks and movements that work in the area of children's rights – is presenting candidates with a Letter of Commitment to Early Childhood, containing an agenda of priorities.
The RNPI is non-partisan, but its actions are political because they deal with children's fundamental rights and citizenship. The child is untouchable in his dignity as a person. Brazil is internationally recognized for the quality of federal, state and municipal legislation and public policies to protect and promote the rights of children and adolescents. Our Rights Guarantee System – SGD is celebrated for the progress that our country has made in the last twenty years, reducing the rates of mortality, morbidity and child malnutrition and inclusion in early childhood education and primary education. The unique social assistance system seeks to welcome and protect children and their families in situations of risk and social vulnerability.
However, the more we do, the more we see what remains to be done. Millions of children are excluded, in the shadow of public policies. Your rights are denied; their potential, restricted. Brazil remains, also due to this omission, an unfair and unequal country. The election of new leaders for federal, district and state governments is an opportunity to reaffirm the State's duty to guarantee the rights of children and adolescents.
Time to renew the political will to comply with what is prescribed in article 227 of the Federal Constitution, which states “It is the duty of the family, society and the State to ensure that children, adolescents and young people, with absolute priority , have the right to life and health , food, education, leisure, professionalization, culture, dignity, respect, freedom and family and community coexistence, in addition to keeping them safe from all forms of negligence, discrimination, exploitation, violence, cruelty and oppression”; in the Child and Adolescent Statute – ECA (Law nº 8069/90), a set of specific laws, which provides full protection for Brazilian children and adolescents and, equally, establishes the rights and duties of the State and the citizens responsible for them and; finally, in the Legal Framework for Early Childhood (Law nº 13,257/16) which establishes principles and guidelines for the formulation and implementation of public policies for Early Childhood considering the specificities and importance of the first years of life in child development and throughout the cycle of life.
It is the right of children to live in a world of peace, dialogue, fraternity and love.
Find out more about the Child is a Priority campaign in the 2018 elections here .
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