Climate Change Threatens One Billion Children Worldwide

INA-  SOURCES

Children’s Rights NGO warned today, Wednesday, that the repercussions of climate change threaten one billion children around the world, expressing regret that the living standards of minors around the world have not improved over the past decade.

The rights group said; Based in the Netherlands, an annual study found that the COVID-19 pandemic had also had a significant impact on children, as they were sometimes deprived of food or medicine due to disruptions in the health sector, resulting in the deaths of about 286,000 children under the age of five.

The organization included this information in a study it publishes annually under the name of the “Children’s Rights Index”, in which it ranks 185 countries according to the extent to which each of them complies with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on United Nations data.

In the 2022 index, Iceland, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands ranked first, while the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Chad were at the bottom.

The organization’s founder and president, Mark Dollart, said in a statement that the 2022 index was “disturbing for our current and future generations of children.”

“A rapidly changing climate now threatens their future and their basic rights,” he explained.
Dolart lamented that “there has not been much progress in children’s living standards over the past decade, and in addition, their livelihoods have been severely affected by the pandemic.”

According to the Children’s Rights Index for the year 2022, for the first time in two decades, the number of working children in the world has risen to 160 million; That is an increase of 8.4 million children over the past four years.

This indicator was developed by the organization in cooperation with Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

On the other hand, the study welcomed the progress made by some countries in terms of protecting children and improving their rights.
These include, for example, Angola, where the under-five mortality rate has been halved, and Bangladesh, where the number of underweight children under five has almost halved.

In turn, Bolivia has nearly halved the number of accidents children are exposed to at work.


SOURCE: globe echo