Climate change threatens one billion children – Dutch NGO report

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The novel coronavirus pandemic has had a terrifying impact on underage boys and girls, who in many cases were deprived of food and medicine, resulting in the loss of 286,000 lives of children under the age of five

In its annual report, the non-governmental organization KidsRights, it documents the consequences of climate change which threatens the lives of one billion children

Its pandemic new coronavirus moreover, it had a terrifying impact on minor boys and girls, who in many cases were deprived of the food or medicine they needed due to the disorganization of the health sector, resulting in 286,000 children’s lives are lost under the age of five, the Dutch NGO adds in its annual report.

The KidsRights Index, published annually, ranks 185 countries according to the degree to which they comply with the international Convention on the Rights of the Child. Rights of the Child. It is based on UN data.

Iceland, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands occupy the top four positions in this ranking in 2022. In the last four Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Chad are found.

The report for 2022 it sounds “a wake-up call for current and future generations of children,” Mark Doulaert, founder and president of KidsRights, emphasizes in the NGO’s press release.

“The rapidly changing climate threatens today their future and their fundamental rights”, he adds.

“There has been no significant progress in children’s living standards during the last decade and, moreover, their means of survival have been very seriously affected by the pandemic,” he insists.

For the first time in two decades, the number of children that work exceeded 160 million, in other words I grew upe by 8.4 million in the last four years, according to the index, which is compiled in collaboration with Erasmus University (Rotterdam).

However, the study highlights the progress recorded in some countries. For example, Angola halved child mortality under-fives, while Bangladesh halved the number of underweight children. Bolivia, for its part, has halved the number of accidents in which children were injured at work.

Switzerlandranked second last year, fell to 31st place “due to the country’s inadequate implementation of the ‘best interests of the child’ principle in decisions involving children,” the NGO pointed out.

Other countries are also criticized in the report, such as Nigeria (175th), for the high level of maternal deaths in childbirth, or Montenegro (49th), due to the low level of vaccination.

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