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    The document discusses children's rights to healthcare globally. It notes that while many countries have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensuring these rights are realized in practice remains a challenge. Indigenous children in Canada and those in developing nations often face inadequate access to medical facilities and treatment due to a lack of funding and resources. Corruption among healthcare professionals and governments that fail to prioritize children's health needs also undermine children's rights. The document calls for international organizations to promote children's rights through advocacy, policy work, and monitoring of healthcare systems.

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    The document discusses children's rights to healthcare globally. It notes that while many countries have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensuring these rights are realized in practice remains a challenge. Indigenous children in Canada and those in developing nations often face inadequate access to medical facilities and treatment due to a lack of funding and resources. Corruption among healthcare professionals and governments that fail to prioritize children's health needs also undermine children's rights. The document calls for international organizations to promote children's rights through advocacy, policy work, and monitoring of healthcare systems.

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    The document discusses children's rights to healthcare globally. It notes that while many countries have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensuring these rights are realized in practice remains a challenge. Indigenous children in Canada and those in developing nations often face inadequate access to medical facilities and treatment due to a lack of funding and resources. Corruption among healthcare professionals and governments that fail to prioritize children's health needs also undermine children's rights. The document calls for international organizations to promote children's rights through advocacy, policy work, and monitoring of healthcare systems.

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    The document discusses children's rights to healthcare globally. It notes that while many countries have signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensuring these rights are realized in practice remains a challenge. Indigenous children in Canada and those in developing nations often face inadequate access to medical facilities and treatment due to a lack of funding and resources. Corruption among healthcare professionals and governments that fail to prioritize children's health needs also undermine children's rights. The document calls for international organizations to promote children's rights through advocacy, policy work, and monitoring of healthcare systems.

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    BLOG 10 : Children’s Rights

    Children are human beings who can feel, understand , question and react. All
    children have the right to live. Governments should ensure that children survive
    and develop healthily (Article no. 6, UNICEF). It shows children have the right to
    live a healthy life and government is responsible to provide all those resources to
    children which help them to develop physically , mentally, socially and
    emotionally in a positive manner. The healthcare sector for children is equally
    responsible for providing best healthcare services to children worldwide. All the
    children deserve best medical treatment and care. This responsibility lies on
    healthcare professionals. In Canada the Indigenous children are deprived of this
    basic right. The government has failed to provide proper funding for children
    healthcare. As a result, there are no good medical facilities on reserves for these
    children. Hence, there is a disparity between the rights of the Indigenous children
    and the rest of the children in Canada.
    Apart from Indigenous children, the children in underdeveloped countries are
    exposed to all sorts of harassment and medical issues. The hospitals are
    understaffed and there are barely proper medical facilities available to the children.
    The private hospitals are so expensive that a middleclass family cannot afford that.
    The developed countries provide much better treatment and care to the children as
    compared to hospitals in third world countries. There doctors ,nurses and other
    health professionals do not take any responsibility. They are lazy and corrupt. In
    these countries children have no rights. All the rights are for the rich children since
    they can spend large amount of money on their treatment and others are left to die.
    Nobody acknowledges their rights.
    There is inequality and injustice which has led some children enjoy their rights
    whereas others do not even know that they have rights too. This injustice is due to
    corruption which is widespread in some countries. For example, in Pakistan the
    government is greedy. Instead of spending taxes on citizens , it swallows their
    money. Every year in Thar, a vast village in Pakistan , hundreds of children die but
    government has turned a deaf ear to this issue which needs immediate action. The
    healthcare professionals are lazy and corrupt too. They are not loyal to their
    profession since there are no checks and balances in that system. How can children
    get their rights there? Another example is that of the Indigenous children
    worldwide who are deprived of their basic rights due to discrimination. Their
    mortality rate is very high due to the lack of medical facilities provided to them.
    According to Waterston & Yilmaz (2013), “ There is still much exploitation of
    children globally in relation to issues such as child labour, child trafficking,
    violence against children and basic health needs not being met. Even though
    almost all countries in the world have signed up to the CRC, fine words are not
    always followed by action (UNICEF).” Children living in underdeveloped
    countries and the Indigenous children both suffer with poverty and hence they are
    at greater risk. Waterson & Yilmaz, (2013) further explained that besides these
    children , there are other children too who are disabled , minorities, asylum
    seekers, children living in foster care and those who have emotional issues and
    learning disabilities are also vulnerable. I agree with Waterson and Yilmaz (2013)
    who recommended that National Paediatric Associations should develop a strategy
    to promote child rights through training, research, health policy development and
    advocacy. In my opinion UNO and WHO both should intervene to investigate and
    eliminate corruption from the healthcare sector where children are at risk. These
    organization should appoint their staff there who can monitor and evaluate the
    healthcare sector and they should also make sure that the children’s rights are
    being acknowledged. Moreover, the health professional should be given proper
    education and training about children’s rights.

    Rights leaflet – UNICEF. (1991). Retrieved July 5, 2022,


    from https://sites.unicef.org/rightsite/files/rights_leaflet.pdf

    Waterston, T., & Yilmaz, G. (2013). Child rights and health care: International society for
    social pediatrics and child health (ISSOP) position statement. Child: Care, Health &
    Development, 40(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12118

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