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The International Convention on the Rights of the Child, (ICRC), a collateral victim of Covid-19 ?

  By  Deborah Liebart , in collaboration with  Marco Manca . First appeared on  DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI:  10.5281/zenodo.4896280 Licensed under the  CreativeCommons  BY-NC-SA 4.0 " Street Children " by henri ismail is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0   At a time when European deconfinements are taking place, the economic repercussions of the health crisis are on everyone’s mind, I would like to focus on the issue of children’s rights largely undermined, as well, by the covid-19 than by the resulting economic crisis. The pandemic has created considerable threats to children, their safety, well-being, education, future and fundamental rights jeopardized, with little regards for their recognition by the International Convention on the Rights of the Child 1 , (ICRC), (54 articles), ratified by 196 UN member countries. Since the unanimous adoption of the text by the General Assembly, political leaders have pledged to build a world fit for...