Childrens rights

A smiling young student holds a small chalkboard in a classroom in Côte d’Ivoire.

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Education

Every child has the right to go to school and learn.

13/08/2019

On 16 July 2019 in New York, (right) Darrius Simmons, 18, from the USA, addresses the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters.

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Including Children, Adolescents and Youth

Just as people’s participation was a hallmark of the SDG negotiations’ process - infusing increased ambition and legitimacy into that process.

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22/01/2020

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Ending Violence Against Children

Goal area 16 includes target 16.2 – End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture of children.

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21/01/2020

On 14 March 2018 in Aden City, Yemen, a child is displaced from Taiz because of the conflict.

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Peace and Justice

Peace, stability, human rights and effective governance, based on the rule of law are central to the realization of child rights.

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21/01/2020

On 19 December 2017 in Bangladesh, Mohammad Zia, 10, chops kindling for his family, in a forest near the Thangkhali spontaneous settlement for Rohingya refugees, where his family now shelters, in Cox’s Bazar district.

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Life Below Water and on Land

The issues within the Life Below Water and Life on Land SDGs (Goals 14 and 15) impact the rights and lives of many children.

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21/01/2020

A woman carries vegetables in a basket on her head in the Trobriand Islands in Milne Bay Province.

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Climate Action

Climate change and environmental degradation are equity issues that undermine the rights of every child, especially the most disadvantaged.

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21/01/2020

A basket being woven by Abane Afana-An using bark and recycled colth and plastic bags in Nyariga in the Upper East Region of Ghana on 27 May 2015.

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Sustainable Consumption and Production

SDG 12 pertains to children in two critical ways.

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21/01/2020

In 2007 in Romania, children jump in a playground in Bucharest, the capital.

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Currently, around 56% of the world’s population -- 4.4 billion people -- live in cities.

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21/01/2020

Carrying a young boy, a Yazidi man who fled Sinjar Mountain re-enters Iraq from the Syrian Arab Republic, at a border crossing in the town of Peshkhabour in Dohuk Governorate.

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Children Uprooted

30 million children live outside their country of birth and among them are 12 million refugees and asylum seekers part of mixed migration flows.

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21/01/2020

HalimŽ was married at 14. She never attended school unlike her brothers. She says child marriage is one of main cause of poverty in her village.

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Reducing Inequalities

Addressing inequalities to leave no child behind.

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21/01/2020

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