SOME DATA
Data on minors at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
There are many minors at risk of poverty and social exclusion: the European average calculated by Eurostat is equal to 24.3%. Romania has the highest percentage: with 38.1 percentage points, Slovenia the lowest with 13.1%. Most member states have a ratio greater than 20%. And the most disheartening news is that the data since the last analysis has deteriorated in many countries.
Young people are the most affected by the crisis: in 20 European countries, the average risk of poverty among children under 16 is 24.5%, significantly higher than the elderly, at 18.2%. And Italy does not offer a better scenario, with 31.5% of young people in conditions of economic deprivation, almost ten percentage points more than the average of over 65s (22%).
Consequences of youth poverty.
If we consider all the states of the European Union, only Greece (35.7%), Romania (40.9%) and Bulgaria (41.0%) record worse results than Italy. To say this is the data of the Cgia Studies Office for the year 2017. According to what was declared by the coordinator of the studies office, Paolo Zabeo, such a high rate of youth poverty often results in educational impoverishment. "Many of these young people are destined to abandon their studies early, putting in trouble their future career, which will almost certainly reserve enormous difficulties for these subjects in finding stable and quality employment."
A school dropout is an educational failure and signals that something went wrong. Eurydice's research on early school leaving indicates that the most disadvantaged young people, both economically and socially, often leave school early.
A very dangerous mechanism because it aggravates the already existing inequalities. This produces several negative consequences that affect the individual boy or girl. When the phenomenon affects large sections of the population, society becomes weaker, poorer, and more insecure.
SPORT'S ROLE:
Sport is good and can be the key.
Practising sporting activity is essential in all age groups and has a significant influence on the development of young people: the promotion of physical, mental, social and moral training. Thanks to sport, young people can develop positive traits such as facing difficulty and awareness of their limits and strengths. Sport encourages autonomy, self-esteem and collaboration.
Sport is a crucial element in the formation of a young person, and it represents one of the educational contexts in which the young person is formed: such as that of the family, school and peer groups.
The opportunities offered by sport are many.
Institutions of all levels are also showing more and more attention to sport and its opportunities. When we talk about the opportunities offered by sports, we refer to all the experiences that can arise from active participation in sports, such as participation in competitions, experiences of comparison between peers, meeting new people, knowing oneself and its limits. Also, having the chance to win a prize, self-determination, defeat one's fears, cultivate passions, and discover new ones. The world of opportunities that sport can offer is very vast. It can include the relationship with an instructor or an instructor able to become a model to refer to in a moment of difficulty, win a competition and the simple and healthy relationship of friendship with members of your team.
These opportunities are of paramount importance in people's lives and should be accessible to anyone regardless of social class, culture, religion, sexual orientation or gender.
The right to sport and its opportunities.
Based on these elements, let's focus on the concept of the right to play sports and in particular, we focus on children and young people. Doing sport, out of passion, out of necessity or in a competitive way, is not only a choice, but it is also a right contemplated by the law.
United Nations Convention about Child and Adolescent's rights (signed in 1989, ratified in 1991 and promoted by the Eu Treaty of Lisbon in 2009) recognise sport as a right for each child.
VULNERABLE GROUPS AND DUTY BEARERS
Group:
A group is an organization of people or things, like a reading group at a public library that holds book discussions every month.
Group comes from the word for lump, or cluster. If you're out walking at night and see a group of wild dogs coming at you, best to go the other way. You could always find a group of people to walk with if you don't want to be alone. Group can also be used as a verb. If you're painting a still life, you might collect a bunch of objects from your house and group them together in an eye-pleasing arrangement.
Vulnerabile:
Vulnerability is the quality of being easily hurt or attacked. Some seniors think it's funny to pick on the ninth graders because of their vulnerability.
Vulnerability comes from the Latin word for "wound," vulnus. Vulnerability is the state of being open to injury, or appearing as if you are. It might be emotional, like admitting that you're in love with someone who might only like you as a friend, or it can be literal, like the vulnerability of a soccer goal that's unprotected by any defensive players.
Vulnerable Groups:
Vulnerability of individuals, communities and the environment is a major factor in terms of exposure to disaster risks which limits resilience, but these risks do not affect everybody in the same way. Poor people and socially disadvantaged groups are the most exposed and suffer most directly from disasters. Yet the most fragile people are often not taken sufficiently into account where prevention strategies or operational manuals are concerned, despite being quite clearly the most vulnerable.
When we talk about VULNERABLES GROUPS (in a human rights sense) we intend certain population groups often encounter discriminatory treatment or need special attention to avoid potential exploitation. These populations make up what can be referred to as vulnerable groups. People more exposed to the possibility of not having their human rights guaranteed.
Some examples: Woman, Children, People with disabilities, Person with HIV-AIDS, Older Persons, LGBTIQ+ Persons, Refugees People, Roma People, cultural, ethnic, and religious minorities… people who can face up
Duty-Bearers:
Central to the idea of human rights is establishing and sustaining the relationship between the rights-holder (who has the right) and the duty-bearer (who has the obligation to fulfill the right). A duty-bearer is the person(s) or institution(s) which have obligations and responsibilities in relation to the realization of a right.
For example, all adults can support children and young people to be human rights defenders.
But there are some adults – duty bearers – who international law says have a responsibility to respect, protect and fulfil children and young people’s rights. Because the State is the main duty bearer when it comes to defending human rights, these responsibilities often fall on people who are employed by it.
These would include:
Scottish Ministers,
Scottish Government officials,
local authority staff,
teachers,
social workers,
health workers, such as doctors and nurses, and
police officers.
But YOU can also be a Duty Beares: you have to feel it!
SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS can be a duty beares for the rights of sport and fun.
EXERCISE: WHEN AND HOW YOU CAN BE A DUTY BEARES?
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