THE HAGUE: Britain and New Zealand are failing on children's rights, scoring lower than war-torn Syria and North Korea relative to their wealth in rankings released Tuesday by a children's group.
The annual KidsRights rankings, compiled with the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam, use UN data to measure how countries measure up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child."Of course the situation in the UK is far better than in Afghanistan or Syria, but it's relative to their position," Dulleart said.
Booming economic growth in countries such as China, India and Myanmar is meanwhile failing to translate into better rights for children, the group said.However Thailand and Tunisia ranked surprisingly highly, at 14th and 15th, because with the"limited resources they have, they put everything into the next generation", said Dullaert.
"We need to get rid of this old fashioned mindset that we the adults have all the answers," added the princess, who is the sister-in-law of Dutch King Willem-Alexander.
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