The legislative body created over six decades places children at the center of attention and guarantees their survival, development, protection and participation in society.
To ensure these rights, it has among other provisions the Family, Labor, Childhood and Youth codes, as well as the maternity law.
Several programs for the wide use of television for educational purposes, the massive study of computing and the most complete coverage with fully-prepared teachers, allow the full development of minors.
The island also has 440 special schools, with an enrollment of more than 56,000 pupils, which cover the educational needs of children with disabilities.
According to the vice president of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Luis Ernesto Pedernera, Cuba's work in protecting its children is commendable and can be compared to first world countries.
The fact that the Cuban Constitution places the best interests of the child and progressive autonomy at its center is an important achievement, as was the approval of the Family Code, the expert pointed out in a meeting with representatives of the organizations of the island civil society.
In the contact, Pedernera assured that the country is immersed in a very interesting process that began with the 2019 Constitution, which includes some axes of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
He considered his visit to Cuba as a historic and superlative experience, since it is the first time that an expert from the Committee has attended an academic activity -I International Congress on Children and Adolescents- and has the opportunity to talk with the authorities about the recommendations made. International Children's Day, instituted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1956, is dedicated to fraternity and understanding among the children of the world and promotes activities that directly involve the smallest of the house.
