{"id":3124,"date":"2017-06-14T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:30","slug":"which-countries-are-best-for-childrens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/06\/14\/which-countries-are-best-for-childrens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Which countries are best for children\u2019s rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International children\u2019s rights foundation KidsRights and Erasmus University, Rotterdam have\u00a0 recently published the <a href=\"https:\/\/kidsrights.org\/news\/kidsrights-index-2017-violence-and-discrimination-against-children-global-concern\">KidsRights<\/a> Index 2017, a global ranking which charts countries\u2019 performance records concerning children\u2019s rights.\u00a0 Interestingly Portugal tops the ranks with the UK in 156<sup>th<\/sup> place!\u00a0 This is because it assesses rights in five demands (including child legislation, health and education) and considers commitments in relation to the means available.\u00a0 The full methodology which describes this in detail is available on the website.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Children also recently launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.savethechildren.net\/end-of-childhood\">End of childhood index<\/a> which ranks countries according to 8 life events (eg Extreme violence, conflict, forced displacement, child labour and child marriage) which effectively end childhood.\u00a0 Other data on the condition of children available worldwide is available on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/data.unicef.org\/\">the UNICEF website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childmortality.org\/http:\/www.childmortality.org\/\">CME child mortality Data<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International children\u2019s rights foundation KidsRights and Erasmus University, Rotterdam have\u00a0 recently published the KidsRights Index 2017, a global ranking which charts countries\u2019 performance records concerning children\u2019s rights.\u00a0 Interestingly Portugal tops the ranks with the UK in 156th place!\u00a0 This is because it assesses rights in five demands (including child legislation, health and education) and considers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[178,107,58,400],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-sociology","tag-children","tag-health","tag-human-rights","tag-mortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}