The Kids Rights (Children’s Rights) NGOs expressed sadness that the standard of living for minors worldwide has not increased over the past ten years and cautioned that a billion children worldwide are at risk from the effects of climate change.
In this context, the founder and head of the human rights organization and its headquarters in the Netherlands, Mark Dollar, explained in a statement that the 2022 indicator is “worrying about our current and future generations of children. ”
He added that “a rapidly changing climate now threatens their future and fundamental rights.
” In parallel, the organization indicated in an annual study that the Kofid-19 was also 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 286,000 children under the age of five.
Dollars said he regretted that “Children’s living standards did not much improve over the past ten years, and the epidemic had a significant negative impact on their way of life.
” The organizer also reported this information in a study issued annually under the name “Children’s Rights Index”, in which 185 countries were classified according to the extent of their compliance with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child based on the United Nations data.
The top three countries in the 2022 indicator were Central Africa, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Chad. The bottom three were Iceland, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands.
The number of children working worldwide has increased to 160 million for the first time in 20 years, according to the Children’s Rights Index for 2022, which was created in collaboration with Erasmus University in Rotterdam. This represents an increase of 8.4 million children over the previous four years.
On the other hand, the study welcomed the progress made by some countries to protect children and improve their rights.
Among these countries, for example, Angola, in which the average mortality of children under the age of five decreased, and Bangladesh, where almost half has decreased the number of children under the age of five who are underweight.
In response, Bolivia has cut the number of workplace accidents involving minors by almost half.
It is noteworthy that extreme dehydration, a lack of water, wildfires, high sea levels, floods, the melting of the polar ice cap, severe storms, and a decline in biological variety are just a few of the effects of climate change.
Climate change may have an impact on our wellbeing, food production, housing, safety, and employment.
Some of us are more likely to have climate effects, such as people who live in small island countries and other developing countries.
According to the United Nations, extended droughts, rising sea levels, salt water penetration forcing entire cultures to relocate, and other environmental factors put people at risk of famine.
A human rights organisation warns that a billion children worldwide are at risk due to climate change.
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