Saadet Party Istanbul Women Branches Presidency made a press statement in Eminönü Square in order to pay attention violations that children faced in World Children's Day. Istanbul Women Branches members who filled the square, drew attention to children struggling with hunger in Africa. Although children in our country with children's figures made of cardboard, the street workers, who sells handkerchiefs, children were told.
Saadet Party Istanbul Women Branches Chairwoman Nagehan Gül Asiltürk, We are mothers! There are hunger, misery, children in poverty all over the world. These kids are all of us. Let's think a little, let's put our hands under the stone.
In her speech, Nagihan Gül Asiltürk, the president of the women's branches in Istanbul, spoke about the social impacts of the capitalist economic system in debt and interest. Asilturk said, 152 million children around the world are required to play. 40 million refugee children are the biggest tragedy of our world. Over the last 10 years, more than 2 million children died and 5 million were disabled. One out of every 2 children is exposed to violence and 2.5 million children are abducted annually. 1.5 million children are driven into the prostitution market. The United States is one of the two countries that signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child and did not enter into force. The USA is the country where child homelessness and hunger is the most common.
Referring to the experienced child rights violations in Turkey Nagihan Asiltürk, According to the official data of the Ministry of National Education, a total of 973 thousand 874 children cannot benefit from the right of education. One out of every 30 workers who died is child workers who work because of poverty. At least 260 children died in 5 years. Yes, unfortunately, this is the picture of the free 7 world that this capitalist system promises to humanity, built on the sake of 1 billion of the 7 billion world population.