COVID-19 and Children’s Rights

 


Children who contract COVID-19 appear to have less severe symptoms and lower mortality rates than other age groups. But in myriad other ways, the COVID-19 crisis is having a devastating effect on children, with potentially far-reaching and long-term negative impacts. More than 1.5 billion students are out of school, and widespread job and income loss and economic insecurity are likely to increase rates of child labor, sexual exploitation, teenage pregnancy, and child marriage. Stresses on families, particularly those living under quarantines, lockdowns and other restrictions on freedom of movement, may increase the incidence of violence in the home. As the global death toll from COVID-19 increases, large numbers of children will be orphaned and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.

 

This report outlines key human rights risks to children related to the COVID-19 crisis, and steps that governments should take to protect children’s rights in the pandemic, mitigate its devastating effects, and benefit children after the crisis is over.

 The world’s current generation of children will never forget the dramatic time of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on schooling, family contact and home life. They also will remember who helped and stood up for them and whether they felt cared for and safe. In most cases, the virus has caused relatively minor illness among children. Measures such as lockdown, quarantine and closed borders have been primarily used to protect adults from serious illness or death as a result of COVID-19. These actions to protect the majority population of adults, however necessary or otherwise, have impacted on child rights and well-being. Indeed, it has been an imposed sacrifice

 

Child protection risks

 

Some of the child protection risks below are observed in the current COVID-19 pandemic and some are potential risks observed in previous infectious disease outbreaks


References:

- https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/agenda-for-action

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-  https://www.rrsoc.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/child%2520protection%5B1%5D.jpg?itok=TipDikLn.

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