Good News for Kids in 2023
Rohingya refugee children in a classroom at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 9, 2023. ? 2023 Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo

Good News for Kids in 2023

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发布日期: 2023年12月22日
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Welcome to The Week in Rights newsletter. Each Friday, we highlight some of the week's reporting from Human Rights Watch, from deep-dive research to breaking news and even good news.

Find an excerpt from this week's edition below, and thanks for reading.

In our last newsletter of the year, we’re taking an opportunity to look back at some of the positive stories that didn’t always make the headlines. Conflict and human rights crises rage in multiple corners of the world, but there were bright spots in 2023 – particularly for children’s rights.

Each year, HRW’s Jo Becker highlights 10 good news stories for kids. Here are a few from this year.

  • For the first time, Rohingya children of all ages in?refugee?camps in Bangladesh were able to receive a formal education, with a record 300,000 students enrolled.
  • Three more US states – Connecticut, Vermont, and Michigan – banned child marriage. Ten total states now ban all marriage for boys and girls under 18-years-old.
  • Girls in Mexico gained greater access to abortion.
  • Australia?and?Guyana?endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration, bringing the total to 118 countries that have committed to protect schools, teachers, and students during armed conflict. We’ve recently reported on the urgency of safe schools in Ukraine and Cameroon, for instance.

There’s a lot that still needs to be done for children around the world. In 2024, governments should step up and do more to protect kids in all countries.

We’ve also just published our list of the Top 10 (or 11) most-read stories on our website this year. Find that here.

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Thanks for reading The Week in Rights this year and we’ll be back in January!

Also in this week's newsletter:

  • Meta's censorship of Palestine content
  • A win for Iranian women football fans
  • Our year-end quiz!

Read the rest of this week's newsletter and sign up to have it delivered to your Inbox each week here.

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Adam M.

Equality Advocate with expertise in Workplace Safety...a reasonable guy...

11 个月

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Marc Naert

1 年

There is always hope, good work done HRW, thanks!

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Nazarius Celsus Dorus

Former Project Consultant, HIV & AIDS at PT Foundation

1 年

Human Rights Watch what about the rights of stateless children? Don't they matter? I haven't even heard or read anything done for their rights!

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Liphie Pereira

1 年

In Eswatini, formally Swaziland, we still have children who do not go to school and no one cares. Even though we are supposed to be having free primary education but we have children who's parents cannot afford school uniform therefore they end up not going to school.

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