The ‘Justice for Africa’s Children’ report finds that mass injustices have contributed to the rise of working children, children out of school and child hunger across Africa.
NAIROBI, WASHINGTON, DC, NEW DELHI, January 25, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The 2023 report from Laureates and Leaders for Children and the 100 Million campaign, Justice for Africa’s Children, launches today. The report exposes the massive injustices created and perpetuated by discrimination, which disproportionately harm the world’s most vulnerable children.
The continued rise in global wealth and many pre-COVID advances in children’s rights in the rest of the world have hidden a stark reality in plain sight: child labour, malnutrition and children out of school have increased across Africa, even before the pandemic. .
Since the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
the number of working children in Africa increased by more than 20 million (16.6 million in sub-Saharan Africa). There are now more working children in Africa (92.2 million) than children in the EU (80.3 million);
the number of children out of school at the primary, lower secondary and upper secondary levels in sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than 12 million; in all, 106 million children are out of school across Africa; Y
The number of children suffering from stunting in sub-Saharan Africa increased by 500,000, with more than 64 million African children in total suffering from forms of malnutrition.
The Justice for Africa’s Children report finds that international and domestic injustices spanning economic growth, taxes, debt, climate, international agreements, aid, conflict and governance have cost sub-Saharan African countries more than $4 trillion in the first 6 years of the SDGs. . While domestic injustices such as conflict and poor governance cost African children billions in lost public services, $3.8 trillion was lost as a result of international injustices beyond the control of African governments: 95 % of total $4 trillion.
Speaking ahead of the report’s release, Kailash Satyarthi, the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of Laureates and Leaders for Children, stated: “How is it possible that in forty years, wealth has increased by nearly $30,000 per person in South America? North, but only increased by $96 in sub-Saharan Africa? Is an African child worth only a small fraction of an American child? This is a gross injustice. This is discrimination. We urgently need to build a new movement for justice, so that all African children thrive in their early years, go to school and live in freedom.
The report follows a Joint Declaration from the Sixth European Union-African Union Summit in 2022, signed by 96 Nobel laureates and world leaders, calling for a global benefit for children, increased funding for education and school feeding programmes, and a basis for justice that includes increased African representation in global decision-making bodies such as the G20 and IMF.
The launch of the report will feature input from high-profile African activists and leaders, including Liberian 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee, businessman and philanthropist Dr. Mo Ibrahim, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, SG Martin Chungong of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and SG of the All Africa Student Union, Peter Kwasie Kodjie, along with former Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lӧfven and Mr. Satyarthi.
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About the report
Justice for Africa’s children takes an in-depth look at seven modern and global injustices: the uneven response to COVID-19, the abuse of corporate taxes and wealth abroad, discrimination at the IMF, debt injustice, broken aid promises , broken climate finance promises and the uneven response from refugees and unfair immigration policies. It also investigates five national injustices: governance, adolescent rights, conflict, corruption, and the persecution of civil society and youth-led movements.
Children’s Laureates and Leaders
Laureates and Leaders for Children is a movement of visionary leaders in diverse fields of expertise and influence, committed to working together to inspire the international community to globalize compassion for the world’s most vulnerable children. Formally established in 2016 following commitments and actions taken on behalf of marginalized children by the Class of 2014 Nobel Laureates, Laureates and Leaders for Children has expanded its network of Nobel Laureates and world leaders to become a platform international influencer for children’s rights. children are free, safe and educated, everywhere. Laureates and Leaders for Children is an initiative of the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation US. More information can be found at www.laureatesandleaders.org.
100 million
The 100 Million campaign is a youth-led call to action for a world where all young people are free, safe and educated. 100 Million supports young people to mobilize to end violence against children, eradicate child labor and guarantee education, breaking the cycles of illiteracy, poverty and violence forever. Inspired by the powerful voices of young activists and survivors of child labor around the world who are leading change in their communities, the 100 Million campaign launched in late 2016. Since then, the campaign has worked to bring together passionate young activists from all backgrounds to mobilize and advocate for the rights of the world’s most excluded children.
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