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Volgens kinderrechtenorganisatie Save the Children is het aantal kinderen dat in drie weken tijd in Gaza is gedood, hoger dan het jaarlijkse aantal kinderen in alle conflictgebieden samen sinds 2019.

Zes Portugese jongeren tussen 11 en 24 jaar worden morgen (woensdag) gehoord door het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens. Ze klagen Europese regeringen aan voor de enorme bosbranden in Portugal in 2017. Ngo’s spreken van een historisch proces.

Kinderen zijn de grootste dupe van de klimaatcrisis, maar tellen eigenlijk nauwelijks mee in de inspanningen tegen de gevolgen van de klimaatverandering. Dat zeggen Unicef, Save The Children en Plan International in een gezamenlijk rapport.

Pennsylvania children living near fracking sites at birth are two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with leukemia during early childhood than those who did not live near such facilities, a new study has found.

Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiety in children and young people globally and its relationship with perceived government response.

As a leading climate scientist, Paola Arias doesn’t need to look far to see the world changing. Shifting rain patterns threaten water supplies in her home city of Medellín, Colombia, while rising sea levels endanger the country’s coastline. She isn’t confident that international leaders will slow global warming or that her own government can handle the expected fallout, such as mass migrations and civil unrest over rising inequality. With such an uncertain future, she thought hard several years ago about whether to have children.

A new study by Environmental Working Group scientists found almost 42,000 potential sources of toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS could be polluting surface water or drinking water in communities across the U.S. The scientists called for more testing and stricter PFAS regulations.

L’ONG Save the Children, qui lutte pour la protection des enfants, souligne que ces derniers ont été particulièrement touchés.

the court found that one million of today’s Australian children are expected to be hospitalised because of a heat-stress episode, that substantial economic loss will be experienced, and that the Great Barrier Reef and most of Australia’s eucalypt forest won’t exist when they grow up. It found this harm is real, catastrophic, and – importantly from a legal perspective – “reasonably foreseeable”.