Today the newspaper "L'UNITA '" reserved the first page to the "humanitarian aid", with the center a beautiful picture depicting two children behind that holding hands, walking to their "no future".
Here let me return the full article published in "L'UNITA '" Today November 21, 2008.
"The World Day for Children, the Italian government collection yet another poor showing. The President of Unicef \u200b\u200bItaly, Vincenzo Spadafora, denounces heavy cuts in funds for UNICEF Cooperation and other organizations
United Nations by the Italian government. "The 89 million euro provided by multilateral aid in 2009, a third of what it paid in 2008, would entail - Spadafora says - an unprecedented cut funds to UNICEF for children, with the second lowest in Italy, in ' context of the G8, in the UNICEF list of donor governments, with enormous consequences on the activities
that UNICEF carries out on behalf of children around the world. Italy - continued Spadafora - hasempre played an important role in humanitarian aid is no accident that the donations of Italian citizens Unicef despite the crisis that our country is going through, are constant, a sign of strong attention of Italian public opinion on issues of childhood and the future of new generations.
It is ironic that instead it's just the government to take a step back, losing credibility at international level, on the eve of a celebration dedicated to children, "remarked the president of Unicef \u200b\u200bItaly again, in a letter sent the day before yesterday to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and
Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini.
Spadafora urges "The restoration of funds" in favor of UNICEF projects for children around the world. The response received from the Prime Minister in his speech on the Day of the Child was by no means satisfied with the president of UNICEF, Italy. Spadafora, speaking on Deputies to the National Day of the Child has reiterated its concern about "cuts in international cooperation, it means risking our projects, and that the crisis is paid by children. "Cutting funds for cooperation - Spadafora insists - is not consistent with the words heard this morning (yesterday, Ed.)
UNICEF's not just to protest. And they are not Spadafora only letters to remain unanswered. The cuts in funding for development cooperation decided at the 2009 Budget 'will cause an overall reduction in resources of some € 400 million, numbers that would lead Italy to last place in Europe for the Official Development Assistance (ODA) of poorest countries in the world. " To write an open letter a few weeks ago the Prime Minister, NGOs are the 'Italian Coalition Against Poverty (Gcap) and celebrities - from Bono Jovanotti. The request is the same as UNICEF Italy: "Keep the commitments made at international level." Starting this summer, remember the letter Berlusconi, "we have witnessed the adoption of drastic cuts to the initiatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Italian Development Cooperation, for a total of € 170 million per year from 2009." "The budget presented in Parliament - add - Provide, in 2009 alone, further cuts in funds for cooperation, which would cause an overall reduction in resources of some € 400 million." A devastating intervention. The announcement of the budget three years, the associazionihanno repeatedly drawn attention to the cuts in public funds for cooperation.
A protest is also the international coordinator of the Campaign Millennium, Eveline Herfkens, who drew the Italian government to the commitments made in international fora.
"Italy - Herfkens complaint - is bringing up the rear for the funds allocated to the campaign of the United Nations Millennium Goals. A position that could have serious consequences on the credibility of its G8 presidency next year. " "We are very concerned - he adds - for the current trend of development aid in Italy." Not only that. Can not be ignored, denounced the foreign minister of the shadow government of the Democratic Party, Piero Fassino, who "in 2010, our country will have to commit 0.51% of GDP in aid, to be line with what was agreed at European level and that, again in 2010, achieved the goal should be universal for the treatment and prevention of HIV / AIDS. "
The choices made in the Budget blatantly contradict these commitments. It contradicts what was announced by Berlusconi himself last G8 summit in Hokkaido.
Article published by "L'UNITA '" November 21, 2008, pp. 12-13
... and while the WFP (World Food Programme) has produced a video spot on world hunger.
A donkey appears on the horizon in the dryness of the land Darfur. There are men, huts, rumors of war to hinder its path. The camera of the United Nations World Food Programme resumes its slow pace. Take 12 seconds for the frame disappear. Just in those 12 seconds, two children have since died of hunger in some corner of our planet sick of too much abundance or absolute lack of food.
What is the goal do not circumscribe the world just a short distance of refugees and displaced persons in Darfur, one of the camp for displaced persons of Aboushouk, where the donkey began its slow journey, and dozens of other fields where people for years, surviving in appalling conditions. The conflict erupted in 2003, he became one third of Darfur's population, approximately 2 million people displaced in which WFP provides food assistance.
What is the goal do not circumscribe the world just a short distance of refugees and displaced persons in Darfur, one of the camp for displaced persons of Aboushouk, where the donkey began its slow journey, and dozens of other fields where people for years, surviving in appalling conditions. The conflict erupted in 2003, he became one third of Darfur's population, approximately 2 million people displaced in which WFP provides food assistance.
To reflect, look at this video spot. Maybe he speaks so often on TV now so that the problem of hunger in the world for many has become "a boring show for your eyes." But I would urge everyone to throw open their eyes and look beyond their shoes.
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