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The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) today issued its findings on Germany, Kuwait, North Macedonia, the Philippines, South Sudan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam after reviewing the eight States parties during its latest session.
The findings contain the Committee's main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the Child Rights Convention as well as positive aspects.
Germany is considering plans to open two reception centers in Morocco for repatriated children.
This blog article from the Economic Policy Institute notes that policy makers ignore legislation that could make it easier for women to balance work and home obligations.
RT reports UNICEF criticized German government for providing insufficient housing and education for child refugees.
This article from The New York Times states that shelters face problems of abuse, arson, rape,and sexual molestation. These scandals have called into question the speed in which shelters were arranged.
In this article from NEWSok, Zaidoon Khalaf shares his experiences while attempting to reunify with his family Germany. Originally from Iraq, Khalaf, a Yazidi was forced to flee northern Iraq. Of his last days in Iraq, he says, "I stil hear the children screaming for water when ISIS burned the people to death." Zaidoon is currently in Greece in "protective custody."
The World Tourism Network on Child Protection held its 31st meeting on the occasion of ITB Berlin. The meeting was focused on the role and initiatives of the private sector to fight Child Exploitation in tourism. Awareness raising, training of staff and the implementation of measures along the whole value chain of tourism were pointed out as critical.
In this article, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee discusses the critical brain development that happens in the first year of a baby’s life, and the impact that growing up in poverty has on that cognitive development. Researchers in Philadelphia, USA studied the environments of children living in poverty and found that children who received more attention and nurturing in infancy tended to have higher IQ scores and that children who received more cognitive stimulation tended to perform better on language tasks. Furthermore, the researchers studied these children at the age of four, eight, and as…