Cristiano Morsolin


Italian social worker, operator of international networks to defend children rights in Latin-America since 2001, with experiences in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. Member of SELVAS Observatory on Latin-America, Milan.


It’s urgent to build up a new network, a new alliance with social movements, university, policy makers in the worlds that promotes children participation and a new paradigm of child citizenship…

I met Manjula and Ganapathi during the World Meeting of Working Children Movements in Milan-Italy (December 2002) when I was the national secretary of Italianats network. My wife Ivonne Oviedo, Colombian delegate during the World Meeting of Working Children Movements in Berlin (2004), met Nandana and Kavita. 

I wrote to Kavita and Ganapathi about the campaign against the approval of the Subregional Plan (2004-2010) for the prevention and eradication of child work in the Andean Countries (www.selvas.eu/download/DOSSIERFrente.rtf), during the 30 birthday of MANTHOC-Peru in 2007 (www.crin.org/docs/nats_ani_cdn.doc) and about my book "In debt with children rights" (see:  Salesians Office in United Nations - www.salesians-un.org/focus_human_rights_Ecuador_ProtectChildren Rights10.html).

So our fraternity regarding the need and importance of involving children’s as active actors and political subjects in the society. I and my wife Ivonne promotes the Escuela Viajera (school traveling) project with poor children in Bogota and Colombian Andes: we think in communion with CWC and Bhima Sangha, that it’s very important the popular education and the identity and world view (in Spanish COSMOVISION DEL BUEN VIVIR) of the field, of the Mother Earth-Pachamama; we don’t accept the violent migration from the field-Andes to the big city because it’s the cause of exploitation and children discrimination. And the children organization from below is the street to change, as the positive experience of Bhima Sangha “children syndicate”, speaks to all humanity.

Nandana was chairperson of International Working group on child labour IWGCL, so it's very important her leadership in international networks. Today I’m teaching in the National University of Colombia-Children Observatory that it was founded by Maria Cristina Salazar, vice chairperson of IWGCL. I am writing a new open letter to United Nations about children living and working in the street (with the support of 74 experts of all the world - www.enmcr.net/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=162 ): it’s urgent a new network, a new alliance with social movements, university, policy makers to building news social policies in the worlds that promotes children participation and a new paradigm of child citizenship. The United Nations don’t understand the Economic-Social-Cultural Children rights and we, as civil society, have to open their eyes…

Here in Latin America all is very difficult and we need UNION to fight to a global solution about exclusion and poverty from the perspective of working children and popular children get organized! We want globalizing peace, solidarity, dignity, and the self-determination of free Peoples from colonial capitalism and eurocentrism!!!

Thanks to your prophecy, of Nandana, of Kavita, of Ganapaty, of Manjula, of all Bhima Sangha, of all CWC an important example for all.

This good news it’s very important to globalize hope so I write a report from Vatican Agency SIR, and there is commentary of Salinari Raffaele, European President of Terre des Homme TDH International NGO: “I met Indian children workers in Mumbai Social Forum WSF, it’s very good news to defense the children rights”.


See his article on World Forum for Alternatives: http://www.forumdesalternatives.org/EN/readarticle.php?article_id=10643