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role of child rights and you agency in earthquake​

Answer 1

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Introduction

In recent years, major natural disasters—ranging from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2010 Haiti earthquake 1 —have challenged the global community to ensure the survival and well-being of millions of individuals under the most difficult circumstances. Each of these natural disasters has created crisis spots with huge numbers of displaced persons, including high numbers of children. The international community has struggled to deliver the resources needed to ensure the prompt and full recovery of the affected populations. In these settings, the challenges confronting children are particularly acute.

Children, due to their young age and developmental status, are typically more vulnerable than adults. 2 In post-disaster settings, nearly all the rights of children are implicated, ranging from basic survival, to freedom from abuse and exploitation, to access to health care and education. 3 It is during this time that crucial decisions are made regarding plans for reconstruction and prioritization of resources. Too often, at this critical juncture following a major natural disaster, children are relegated to the margins.

Children are held up as the face of suffering in disaster settings, yet, despite the progress made in advancing children’s rights in the past twenty years, in post-disaster settings children frequently are seen but not heard—an approach that echoes nineteenth-century thinking. 4 The result of this approach is that children’s rights and needs are frequently under-addressed, with adverse long-term consequences for children, their communities, and their countries. This Article seeks to draw attention to the lack of accounting for children’s rights and suggests a framework for overcoming this failure—children’s rights mainstreaming.

Answer 2

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• In recent years, major natural disasters—ranging from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2010 Haiti earthquake 1 —have challenged the global community to ensure the survival and well-being of millions of individuals under the most difficult circumstances. Each of these natural disasters has created crisis spots with huge numbers of displaced persons, including high numbers of children. The international community has struggled to deliver the resources needed to ensure the prompt and full recovery of the affected populations. In these settings, the challenges confronting children are particularly acute.

• Children, due to their young age and developmental status, are typically more vulnerable than adults. 2 In post-disaster settings, nearly all the rights of children are implicated, ranging from basic survival, to freedom from abuse and exploitation, to access to health care and education. 3 It is during this time that crucial decisions are made regarding plans for reconstruction and prioritization of resources. Too often, at this critical juncture following a major natural disaster, children are relegated to the margins.

• Children are held up as the face of suffering in disaster settings, yet, despite the progress made in advancing children’s rights in the past twenty years, in post-disaster settings children frequently are seen but not heard—an approach that echoes nineteenth-century thinking. 4 The result of this approach is that children’s rights and needs are frequently under-addressed, with adverse long-term consequences for children, their communities, and their countries. This Article seeks to draw attention to the lack of accounting for children’s rights and suggests a framework for overcoming this failure—children’s rights mainstreaming.