The KidsRights Index 2023, the first and only ranking that annually measures how children’s rights are respected worldwide, has received tremendous media attention worldwide.
The findings of the KidsRights Index 2023, which were launched on 26 June, have been covered by 382 distinct pieces of news items across 35 countries, effectively reaching 2,25BN individuals globally.
The Report also received spectacular attention in digital and social media. Between 18 June and 3 July, the KidsRights website had 14,683 unique visitors, out of which 8,539 visited the KidsRights Index page. Social media posts on the KidsRights Index drew heavy traffic.
The KidsRights posts on KidsRights Index reached 2,562,720 on Facebook and 1,738,089 on Instagram. Similarly, State of Youth posts on KidsRights Index reached 2,337,812 on Facebook and 3,230,034 on Instagram.
The total social media reach for the KidsRights Index 2023 stood at a staggering 9,868,655.
Multiple overlapping crisis
The KidsRights Index 2023 drew attention to the multiple overlapping crisis, also referred to as ‘polycrisis’, that the children around the world have faced in the past year and called on the governments to act with urgency to safeguard children’s rights. The war in Ukraine has disrupted global supply chain security, which has contributed to skyrocketing food and energy prices and has created a steep cost-of-living crisis. This has had a significant impact on children and their caretakers, in addition to the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ukraine’s 7.5 million children are the most disproportionately affected by the war and large numbers were displaced from their country of origin.
With the amount of attention garnered by the KidsRights Index across the world, it is hoped that the findings of the report will be utilised by policymakers, parliamentarians, and child rights advocates for better safeguarding children’s rights.
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The KidsRights Index is published annually by the KidsRights Foundation since 2013, in close collaboration with Erasmus School of Economics and the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. It is the first and only fully comparative worldwide annual index that systematically compares the child rights performance of (as of recent nearly all) countries that are bound by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Visit the KidsRights Index report 2023 page to read more.
For more information, please contact Ronald de Groot, Media & Public Relations Officer at Erasmus School of Economics: rdegroot@ese.eur.nl, +31 6 53 641 846.