child rights and child poverty can the international framework of childrens rights be used to improve child survival rates儿童权利和儿童贫困儿童权利的国际框架可以用来提高儿童存活率.pdfVIP

Essay Child Rights and Child Poverty: Can the International Framework of Children’s Rights Be Used to Improve Child Survival Rates? * Simon Pemberton , David Gordon, Shailen Nandy, Christina Pantazis, Peter Townsend billion per year for ten years [4]. To violence, abuse, exploitation, and place this sum in perspective, in 2002, discrimination”, and that in doing this the United States population spent $30 she had “failed to address the essential billion on pizza and Europeans spent health needs of children”. The current $12 billion on dog and cat food. Director of UNICEF (Ann Veneman) While medical interventions can, in has so far given much less prominence principle, prevent most young children to child rights, making “child mortality from dying early, they cannot remove public enemy number one for the the underlying causes of poor health, agency” [9]. which are linked directly to the severely We argue that a rights-based strategy deprived or absolutely poor living will increase child survival, in part by conditions suffered by 30% of the