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The KidsRights Foundation, an international children's aid and advocacy organisation based in Amsterdam, published its annual KidsRights Index 2020 last week. The index is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation, in cooperation with Erasmus University Rotterdam that ranks how countries adhere to and are equipped to improve children's rights.
Evaluating the kids rights situation among the 181 United Nations member states that have ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (CIDE), the index puts Morocco 72nd in the world with a score of 0.767, after having been 75th Last year.
For this new edition, it is clear that Morocco has managed to improve its scores for the five sub-indices of the report, compared to last year. Indeed, the kingdom has a score of 0.898 for the right of children to health. It is also 82nd (0.837 points) for the right to life, 99th for the right to education (score of 0.674) and 68th for the right to protection with a score of 0.914.
In the Middle East and North Africa region, Morocco remains in the top 10. It comes behind Tunisia (17th in the world), Egypt (21st), Qatar (41st), Lebanon ( 49th), Bahrain (58th), Jordan (62nd) and Algeria (71st). Morocco is ranked third in the Maghreb, ahead of Libya (83rd) and Mauritania (140th). Morocco is 6th in Africa, behind Tunisia, Egypt, Mauritius, Cape Verde and Algeria.
Rights affected by the coronavirus
Globally, Iceland, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and Germany top the ranking, with scores of more than 0.9, while the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Chad are at the bottom of the ranking.
As the world faces the pandemic of the new coronavirus, the report considers that «children’s rights are seriously affected by the coronavirus outbreak» by this health crisis. The index shows, in fact, that countries around the world are allocating an insufficient budget to children's rights, particularly when it comes to protection, health and education. In addition, with the economic consequences of the health crisis, there is no expectation that this will change any time soon. KidsRights even stressed that «this crisis turns back the clock on years of progress made on the wellbeing of children».
«The measures taken by governments to curb the outbreak of COVID-19 have a disastrous impact on many children. School closures in 188 countries affect 1.5 billion children and youth, leaving boys and girls extra vulnerable to child labor, child marriage and teenage pregnancy», it ointed out.
«The rise in domestic violence during lockdown measures is especially devastating for girls», it stressed.
