Does Greece have an issue with children's rights?
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Steve from Lambeth
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« on: April 25, 2024, 10:07:23 AM »

Think about it. First To Hamogelo Tou Paidiou take out Missing Alerts on national television which make possibly the most obnoxious noise on European television. Then they retire that campaign to make way for Amber Alert Hellas (which I have only seen promoted on roadside information boards that would otherwise be inactive, and then only for a day).

And now the national government is taking out their own, unrelated "Stop Bullying" ads on television, including during daytime hours when children are watching, which begin with fictionalised news footage of a fifteen-year-old being beaten up in the streets. And these are just the TV campaigns; I haven't checked on other media yet.

Seriously - are children's rights in Greece less well-realised than I've been accustomed to thinking they have been, or are these just very heavily supported campaigns? (Back in the UK, you hear nothing about missing people outside extremely high-profile cases like Maddie McCann and Nicola Bulley, and bullying has been recognised as a noteworthy issue for decades, if one that schools are supposed to take care of themselves.)
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2024, 02:37:03 PM »

I'm confused... which rights are being infringed, specifically?
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« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2024, 08:03:50 AM »

Well yes, the main complaint seemed to be that missing person adverts were a bit annoying? Huh
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« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2024, 08:26:48 AM »

Well, they're not the one country that refuses to even acknowledge children's rights.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2024, 09:14:44 AM »


Due to opposition from "political and religious conservatives" apparently, well that's a shock innit Roll Eyes

Though not sure what Tokelau's problem with it is.
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« Reply #5 on: April 26, 2024, 09:21:49 AM »


Due to opposition from "political and religious conservatives" apparently, well that's a shock innit Roll Eyes

Though not sure what Tokelau's problem with it is.

It's become increasingly clear over the past decade or so that US conservatives plainly don't view children as human beings, yeah. The framing of children's rights issues as being about parents' rights instead is all too telling.
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« Reply #6 on: April 26, 2024, 05:09:08 PM »


Due to opposition from "political and religious conservatives" apparently, well that's a shock innit Roll Eyes

Though not sure what Tokelau's problem with it is.

It's become increasingly clear over the past decade or so that US conservatives plainly don't view children as human beings, yeah. The framing of children's rights issues as being about parents' rights instead is all too telling.
My conservative “uncle” is proof of this. He basically used his children as his house slaves from what I’ve been told and when he didn’t get everything he wanted in his mother’s will (despite getting a disproportionate percent of the inheritance) he cut his children off from the rest of the family.
It’s truly Kim Jong Un level behavior.
Keep in mind he is an otherwise very productive member of society and well respected in his career and community.
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2024, 10:50:32 AM »

Update on this: Nou Nou Gouda - not the entire FrieslandCampina Hellas AE silo, just Nou Nou's line of gouda cheese (gouda is the unofficially official non-Greek cheese of Greece) - is now partnering with Hamogelo on a completely unrelated anti-bullying campaign which they say is reaching 450 schools in Greece.

(My complaint isn't about the adverts as such. It's that the impression is being given that Greece has such a major problem with protecting children from bullying and going missing, which you'd imagine would be among the most basic things you'd need to protect children from, that they need to devote significant public attention to the problem far beyond that seen in other Western countries.)
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