MilfordStreet is on WordPress, and we’ve been clicking “like” on each other’s posts for a while. His Boston-area photography has been especially noteworthy.
Recently he announced he was leaving his job to teach for several months in El Salvador, after which he would get a master’s that he hoped would enable him to find work teaching English as a second language back in the States.
Wow. I’m so impressed.
Now he is creating blog posts about El Salvador. In “Too Young,” he writes about the school children he teaches who have to work in markets and restaurants to help support their desperately poor families.
The post from MilfordStreet referenced Humanium.org (an international child sponsorship NGO dedicated to stopping violations of children’s rights throughout the world), which called to mind a children’s rights movement in the United States.
Michael Schmidt in Communities & Banking magazine describes increasing efforts to ensure that proposed governmental and other policies don’t inadvertently harm children. He provides these elements of a child-rights impact assessment:
A description of the proposed policy; a description of how it is likely to impact children; an indication of whether it is consistent with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child; identification of any disagreements over the likely impact on children; where adverse impacts are predicted, how they might be avoided or mitigated; an indication of the report’s limitations; parents’ and children’s views; a description of what the measure could have done instead and what needs to be monitored and evaluated after the decision has been implemented; explanations of conflicts (that is, where the interests of children conflict with the interests of others); an analysis of the proposed legislation or policy that weighs the costs and benefits associated with children’s well-being.
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