Saturday, December 07, 2013

Fact of the Day

Twenty years after New Zealand ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Uncroc), a Unicef New Zealand report has found 270,000 New Zealand children are still living below the poverty line.

Despite New Zealand's promise to uphold the rights of children, the report found New Zealand had seen significant increases in infectious diseases in children; high rates of child maltreatment; children hurt while working; and children detained in police cells and tried in the adult justice system.


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