October 19, 2022, 7:35 AM
October 19, 2022, 7:35 AM
The effects of climate change threaten one billion children and the general standard of living of children around the world has stagnated in the last decade, said yesterday the NGO KidsRights.
The covid-19 pandemic also had a great impact on children. The shortage of food or medicine caused the death of some 286,000 children under the age of five, according to the Dutch NGO in its annual study.
The KidsRights Index ranks 185 countries each year on their compliance with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on UN data.
Iceland, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands top the 2022 rankingwhich close the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Chad.
The 2022 study is “alarming for our current and future generations of children,” Marc Dullaert, founder and president of KidsRights, said in a statement.
“A rapidly changing climate now threatens their future and their basic rights,” Dullaert said. “There has been no significant progress in children’s living standards in the last decade and, furthermore, their livelihoods have been severely affected by covid-19,” she added.
Nevertheless, the study notes the progress made by some countries, such as Boliviawhich has almost halved the number of child labor accidents.
