KidsRights Index: ‘Devastating impact of global pandemic on children worldwide’
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KidsRights Foundation has published its annual KidsRights Index and revealed that the negative impacts of the global pandemic on children across the world is far worse than first feared.
This is a summary for children of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The KidsRights Index is the first and only global ranking of 182 countries worldwide that annually measures how children’s rights are respected, and to what extent countries are committed to improving the rights of children. This is the ninth consecutive edition of the Index, and to reflect on an exceptional year, a special note is published alongside to assess the true impact of the Coronavirus on the children of the world.
The KidsRights Foundation founder and Chairman is Marc Dullaert, former Chairman of the European Network of Ombudsmen for Children. Marc said: ‘With the ongoing global pandemic, we had to address the devastating impacts and outcomes of COVID-19, and it has unfortunately exceeded our predi...
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