Children At Risk For Nutritional Crisis

It has been over 20 years since governments around the world adopted in the United Nations General Assembly ratified the international treaty of history: the Convention on the Rights of the Child.It, along with the quotation leads these words, recognizes the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for their physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social, also for course to recognizetheir right to life and survival. Certainly, in the last 20 years, measures taken have improved the life expectancy and development of millions of children worldwide. But one cannot ignore ourgreatest collective failure: days in the developing world nearly 200 million children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition. These are children who, and safely, will see affected theirphysical and intellectual development in the short, medium and long term, jeopardizing not only their future but that of their families, communities and society.
The Convention on the Rights of the Childestablishes the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for their physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social. In Article 6, provides that States Parties shall ensure to the maximumextent possible the survival and development of the child. Moreover, in 2000, 189 countries agreed in the framework of the United Nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is broken downinto eight objectives concrete and measurable goals to be achieved by 2015, in order to end poverty and hunger and promoting human development. However, malnutrition is still a major threat to thesurvival, health, growth and development of the capabilities of millions of children, and for the progress of their countries. Child malnutrition is the result of insufficient food intake (quantity andquality), lack of proper care and infectious disease emergence. Behind these immediate causes, there are other underlying such as lack of access to food, lack of health care systems using unsafe water...