”Electronic Protest March” on occasion of Iraqi Childs Parliament

MISSAN / IraqiNews.com: The so-called Iraqi Childs Parliament is planning to launch what it described as an “Electronic Protest March,” comprising sending sms messages for TV Satellite Networks, writing articles and viewpoints in the electronic sites, on occasion of the Iraqi Childs Parliament Day, taking place next week, according to its founder.   “The Iraqi Childs Parliament is striving to organize an ‘electronic protest march’, on the occasion of the Iraqi Childs Parliament Day, taking place next week,” Writer Mohammed Rashid told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Rashid said that the peaceful protest march would express Iraqi children’s call for the whole world, including the Arab League, the UNICIF, the Arab Children’s Council and thousands of other organizations, working for the children’s rights, to stand beside Iraq ’s children and to practice the International Agreement for the Childs Rights, signed by Iraq in 1989.   “The Children’s protests shall be in the form of sms messages through the TV Satellite Channels, as well as messages, viewpoints and topics, to be published on the Internet sites, newspapers and magazines, in a respectful manner, reflecting the culture and vigilance of the Iraqi Childs Parliament, taking into consideration the fact that Iraq’s Parliament and the Council of Ministers have ignored several legitimate demands by the Iraqi children,” Rashid said.   He said that among those demands was “the legislation of a law for the Iraqi Childs Parliament, aimed at practicing the International Agreement for the Childs Rights, the approval of the Law on the Childs Protection, presented by the Iraqi Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs and the allocation of a suitable place for the Iraqi Childs Parliament.”   Noteworthy is that the Iraqi Childs Parliament was established in the city of Amara, the center of Missan Province, on 25/9/2004, by the Writer Mohammed Rashid, comprising a group of children, that are elected periodically, being a Civil Society organization in the Province, practicing activities all over Iraq, to demand the implementation of children’s rights.   Amara, the center of Missan Province , is 390 km to the south of the Iraqi Capital of Baghdad.   SKH (FT)