Many landmark buildings in Dar es Salaam will go blue on the occasion of the eve of World Children’s Day 2019.
The European Union Delegation to Tanzania and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will join iconic landmarks all around the globe by Going Blue. To express support of Children’s Rights and to raise awareness on them, the building housing of both diplomatic missions, together with the British High Commission, the Embassy of the Republic of Germany and the UK Department for International Development (DfID) – the Umoja House in central Dar es Salaam – will be turned blue for one evening. The High commission of Canada also joined by turning their building blue. This is part of a global initiative to highlight the importance of realizing the rights of every child enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).Other buildings Going Blue in Tanzania include, the National Micro-Finance Bank (NMB Bank), the National Housing Corporation, and ONE UN.
The CRC is one among nine core human rights treaties that became part of the international human rights framework, established by the United Nations. In total, its final text contains 54 Articles. The Convention states that childhood is separate from adulthood, and lasts until 18; it is a special, protected time, in which children must be allowed to grow, learn, play, develop and flourish with dignity. It makes clear the idea that a basic quality of life should be the right of all children. The CRC offers a vision of the child as an individual and as a member of a family and community, with rights and responsibilities appropriate to his or her age and stage of development. The guiding principles of the Convention are:
- Non-discrimination;
- The best interests of the child as a primary consideration in all actions concerning children;
- The child’s inherent right to life;
- State Parties’ obligation to ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child;
- The child’s right to express his or her views freely in all matters affecting the child, with those views being given due weight.
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