{"id":15836,"date":"2020-04-24T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T07:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15836"},"modified":"2020-04-24T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T07:12:19","slug":"cnidh-urges-politicians-to-not-involve-children-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cnidh-urges-politicians-to-not-involve-children-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"CNIDH urges politicians to not involve children in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a meeting with leaders of political parties and independent candidates in the upcoming elections, the Independent National Human Rights Commission [CNIDH] has this 23 April urged them to not involve children in political rallies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10723\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10723\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jacques-Nshimirimana-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jacques-Nshimirimana-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jacques-Nshimirimana-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jacques-Nshimirimana-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Jacques-Nshimirimana-1-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Nshimirimana: &#8220;We no longer want to see children being involved in politics as we saw it in previous elections,&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We no longer want to see children being involved in politics as we saw it in previous elections,&#8221; said Jacques Nshimirimana, Commissioner in charge of promoting children&#8217;s rights at CNIDH.<br \/>\nHe calls on politicians to respect and promote children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen cases of children being used in electoral campaigns, chanting hatred songs and insulting other political leaders,&#8221; said Mr Nshimirimana. We want children&#8217;s rights to be respected as provided for by the Burundian and international law.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned Article 4 of the electoral code which stipulates that only persons aged at least 18 are allowed to participate in the elections.<br \/>\n&#8220;Preventing children from going to school to conduct political activities or asking them to insult other members of political parties is a serious violation of children\u2019s rights,&#8221; added Mr Nshimirimana.<\/p>\n<p>He calls on parents and school officials to not involve children in political rallies.<br \/>\nAccording to the electoral commission calendar, the electoral campaign will kick off on Monday 27 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a meeting with leaders of political parties and independent candidates in the upcoming elections, the Independent National Human Rights Commission [CNIDH] has this 23 April urged them to not involve children in political rallies. &#8220;We no longer want to see children being involved in politics as we saw it in previous elections,&#8221; said Jacques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[140,1073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15839,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions\/15839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}