Thank you to Jean-Marc Dupont for allowing me to send this
message from his CLICK4HP account.

How do I say this without sounding like a big complainer?
I cannot resist but attach below something from UNICEF's web site
which announces, under the excuse of giving youth a voice, an
event which is basically asking youth to choose which "right" they
consider to be most important. Please read below for yourself and
think what you will. I personally cannot believe they
have the gall to suggest children and youth should choose one
right over all the others which we worked so hard to promote.
Misguided? Terribleidea? Missing the point? Pefectly OK?
Incredibly stupid? Decide for yourself and if you are as outraged
as I am, feel free to email Unicef at  and tell then what you think.


Thank you
Harry Pasternak


To mark the 10th anniversary, UNICEF Canada partnered with
Elections Canada to launch a nationwide election for youth, focusing
on the Rights of the Child.

National Election for the Rights of Youth
November 19, 1999

The campaign is on! For the first time in Canada, young people under the
age
of 18 will go to the polls to vote for their rights in a nationwide
election
organized by UNICEF Canada and Elections Canada. The election will mark
the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the
Child.

Selecting from a slate of up to ten rights that will appear as
'candidates' on
the ballot, Canada's youth will choose the right they consider to be
most
important to them. Will it be the right to health care, shelter or
education? Will
it be the right to express their opinions? Will young children have
different
concerns than teenagers? Will young people in Toronto vote differently
than
their peers in Prairie farming communities? And what will be the final
result?

Canadian youth will dominate the news - not for what is being said about
them,
but for what they are saying about themselves.

November 19, 1999 will go down in history as the day young people
in Canada spoke out - and were heard!