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These 10 countries are the best at respecting children’s rights
May 27, 2020
A new study uses United Nations data to measure how children’s rights are respected across the globe. Iceland, Switzerland and Finland come top. But worldwide, millions of children face extreme poverty due to COVID-19.
Of the myriad tragic effects of COVID-19, its impact on young people could prove to be one of its most damaging legacies.
The authors of a new report say the crisis has “turned back the clock” on years of progress made on kids’ well-being and put children’s rights under serious pressure across the globe.
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The KidsRights Index 2020 measures how children’s rights are respected worldwide, and the extent to which countries are committed to improving them.
The data doesn’t directly include the impact of the pandemic, but the wider report, presented in the context of coronavirus, warns of the “ disastrous” impact of the crisis on children .
The index finds the five best places to grow up healthy, well-educated and respected are all developed Western economies. But it does throw up some more surprising results too.
Children’s NGO KidsRights draws on data from UNESCO, the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to compile the annual report.
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