Читать книгу Children’s rights in the fairy tales of the peoples of the world. Russian-American project - Коллектив авторов - Страница 2

Dear friends!

In your hands you are holding the book of the European paediatric association’s newest project initiated by The Union of Pediatricians of Russia and supported by National Pediatric Societies. «Why fairy tales?» – perhaps, you are puzzled. «And where do the children's rights come in?» But the answer is simple. We, paediatricians, are the acknowledged advocates of childhood. And the children all around the world keep needing the grownups' protection – from hunger and violence, natural disasters and social upheavals, and, unfortunately, sometimes from the activity (or inactivity) of their own parents. But we believe that good always wins over evil, that the ugly duckling will turn into the beautiful swan, and even Tom Thumb will be victorious over the giant.

We have no doubts that the rights of the child will be observed properly if people know more about the rights of the child. And it means that there will be more happy and merry children – for the joy of us, paediatricians!

Leyla Namazova-Baranova

President of the European Paediatric Association,

director of the Research Institution of Pediatrics of the Scientific Center of Children’s Health,

professor

Dear readers!

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified 25 years ago. But up to now it remains unknown to large parts of the population. The professional paediatric association of the country – The Union of Pediatricians of Russia – has decided to contribute to the changing of the existing situation. While realizing this project we will be able to achieve 3 goals. First, while reading books to their children, parents will teach the children their rights and be imbued with the idea of the necessity to comply with these rights in everyday life. Second, those ones, whom these fairy tales are addressed to, will be parents soon in their turn and will be competent in the issue of children's rights. And finally, there is an important fact that this book is bilingual – Russian and English. So, this project will stimulate the interest of our little readers to learn foreign languages!

Alexander Baranov,

chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union of Pediatricians of Russia,

director of the Scientific Center of Children's Health,

professor

Dear Readers!

For the children we serve and the children we once were, what better way than a fairy tale to pass down a culture’s traditions and values from generation to generation? These stories remind us that every child deserves the right to grow up to be all he or she is meant to be.

As a global community of pediatricians and pediatric organizations, we must advocate for every child to have access to health care, education, sound nutrition and safe, nurturing environments and communities. We must be a powerful voice for our most vulnerable populations, and we must speak out about poverty and all issues that affect the life trajectories of children and adolescents.

There is no greater calling in the world – nor greater impact we can make on the world – than to take care of its children.

Warmest Regards,

Benard P. Dreyer,

MD, FAAP 2016 President,

American Academy of Pediatrics Professor of Pediatrics,

New York University School of Medicine