The living conditions of juveniles around the world have not improved over the past ten years, according to the human rights group based in the Netherlands.
This information may be found in the organization’s yearly report, which has the moniker “Child Rights Index” since it ranks 185 nations based on how closely they adhere to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
According to Kids Rights, this amount (one billion children) roughly equates to half of all children worldwide, and the next ten years are when this threat is most likely to materialise.
The group urged the world’s leaders to decide to invest in and take action to undertake decisive measures to change in this direction when they convene at the Climate Summit “COB 27” in Egypt next month.
She said that one in six children are at risk of hurricanes, while more than a third of all children (820 million) in the world are extremely sensitive to heat waves.
The fact that 90% of children worldwide are exposed to pollution worries many.
As the climate crisis exacerbates, the situation for future generations is dark in the next decade.
The organization’s founder and its president, Mark, said in a statement that the 2022 index was “worrying about our current and future generations of children,” according to “Agence France Presse. ”
“A climate is changing at a speed that now endangers their future and their fundamental rights,” he said.
“Children have suffered from other catastrophes.”
On the level of other crises that affected the children, “Kids Rights” said that the Kofid-19 pandemic had a major impact on children, as they were sometimes deprived of food or medicine due to disturbances in the health sector, which led to the death of about 286 thousand children without The age of five.
The Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Chad were ranked worst in the 2022 Index, which was headed by Iceland, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands.
Dollars expressed his regret that “there was no significant progress in the living standards of children during the past decade, and in addition, their livelihoods were severely affected by the pandemic.
The number of children working worldwide has risen to 160 million, up 8.4 million over the previous four years, according to the children’s rights index for the year 2022. This is the first time in 20 years that this figure has climbed.
In collaboration with the University of Erasmus in Rotterdam, the organisation created this index.
On the other hand, the research applauded the improvements in child protection and rights made by several nations.
Examples of these nations include Bangladesh, where over half the number of children under the age of five are underweight, and Angola, where the mortality rate for children under the age of five has reduced to 50%.
In response, Bolivia has cut the number of workplace accidents involving minors by almost half.
One billion children are at risk from climate change due to heat waves and hurricanes.
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