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                      Petition 

On November 20, 1989, the Convention on the Rights of the Child was announced by the UN. Although this was good news, it was far from good enough as the convention has serious shortcomings. After 31 years of debates and disputes about ambiguities and shortcomings, the Convention on the Rights of the Child became Swedish law on the first of January 2020. Back then, we wrote an article (appeal-2019,  http://childrenfirstnow.com/en/archives/355 )  and emphasized on several ambiguities on a number of points (e.g. articles 8, 11, 14, 20, 24, 29, 30) which allow the parents’ cultural and religious customs to influence children significantly.

We, at Barnen Först (Children First) and everyone else who supports our proposal, want the Convention on the Rights of the Child to be an effective tool for defending children’s rights against various forms of discrimination in the name of religion. The fight against religious schools that segregate children from secular society, the fight against religious symbols such as hijab on female children that lays the foundation for gender apartheid, and the fight against harmful practices such as circumcision of girls and boys, have taken a step forward. We have not solely relied on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Rather, we have pointed out its shortcomings and today there are more and more people and rights activists who realize that the Convention sacrifices children’s rights for political, economic, cultural, and ideological interests.

Criticism of the serious shortcomings of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is expanding:

• ”The issue of Circumcision of boys was raised by the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November 2020 (SOU 2020: 63), where it came to the conclusion that the government may need to review whether Swedish rules fully comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. On circumcision, under Article 24, the inquiry writes (page 1019)”
• “Barnombudsmannen (The Children’s Ombudsman) believes that circumcision should only be carried out when the child can give informed consent.”
• “Rädda Barnen’s (Save the Children) response to the referral New rules for schools with a denominational focus, emphasizes that it is a serious shortcoming that the inquiry has not carried out a child impact assessment and also the right to religious freedom and that children should be allowed to give their opinion based on age and maturity”

These measures, as we mentioned, is a step forward, but we still must continue our struggle for the rights of children to be respected first instead of their religious indoctrination and coercion.

Everyone who cares about children’s rights: Demand the politicians and the government to put the best interests of children before religious orders with roots in the Stone Age!

The Convention on the Rights of the Child needs to be updated to save children from parents’ religious pressure.

Stockholm, 2021 april 18

Contact: Karim shamohammadi

Shamohammadi3@gmail.com

Children First Now.
Enough is Enough
Women’s Right Association
Women’s Revolution
Women’s rights
KFKI

• Karim Shamohammadi                    Chairperson Children First Now
• Mina Ahadi Chairperson                 Enough is Enough
• Farideh Arman                                  Chairperson Women’s Right Association
• Shirin Shams Chairperson             Women’s Revolution
• Maria Rashidi Chairperson           Women’s rights
• Mahin Alipour Chairperson          KFKI
• Hormoz Raha                                    ChairpersonC.A.E
• Rebecca Hybbinette                       dr/Author
• Soleyman Ghasemiani                   Author
• Devin Rexvid                                    Social Worker
• Siamak Bahari                                 TV Program Manager. Kodakan Moghadamand
• Sara Nakhaei                                    Chairperson Iranian Refugee Federation
• Hasan Salehi                                     International Committee against Execution
• Azar Poya
• Hoshiar Soroush
• Andisheh Alishahi
• Susan Saberi
• Abe Asadi
• Soudabeh kazemian
• Shirin Bahrami
• Khalil Keyvan
• Sima Bahari
• Rahim Yazdanprst
• Shaho Pirkhezerian
• Kavosh Mehran
• Naser Shishegar
• Shahnaz Asfandiari
• Nastaran Godarzi
• Hamed Jamali
• Milad Rasai manesh
• Kimia Pazoki
• Nazanin Sadeghi
• Shahla Khabazzadeh
• Golam Akbari
• Giti Aghajani
• Jamil Farzan
• Raza sarlak
• Arsalan Amjadi
• Arash yazdan
• Amir Tavakoli
• Awat Farokhi
• Biston Bigzadeh
• Hosein Hoseinnjad
• Hosein Khodaifar
• Hami Haghshenas
• Sahar Babasalji
• Said Soltanpour
• Sajad Akbari
• Sadegk Zandi
• Faramarz Ghorbani
• Kian Azar
• Mojgan Mazhar safari
• Nastaran Mansori
• Navid Olfati
• Hadi Mosavi
• Veda Ilka
• David Gafari
• Somayeh Soltanpur
• Majid Farajian
• Hamid Sajh
• Saeed Kalhor